Customer Reviews
One of the funniest films i have ever seen - By: Mr. A. Williamson, 22 Oct 2007 
This DVD was given away free with a new DVD player, & so, bored one night with nothing good on TV, i decided to wattch it, & to be honest i am sooo glad i did, it was hilarious, the storyline was ridiculous, the actors actions as unrealistic as the plot & an ending sequence that places the previously nerdy female lead in a Tombraider like atempt at blowing the spider up.She completes this while flying a helicopter filled with dynamite that was conveniently parked outside the high school (i think, it's been a few months since i watched it, either way, it wa in the middle of a quiet town ). I reallly recommend this to anyone with a sense of humour, though if you're looking for something that is actully scary- this isn't it.
A CHEESY GOOD FILM - By: stuart, 06 Aug 2007 
Sent out on a story, reporter Marci Eyre, (Lana Parrilla) & her fellow colleagues Slick, (Oliver Macready) & Jake, (Nick Swarts) decide to go to Area 21, a top secret facility. While waiting, they witness a supposedly lost space shuttle crash-land near the base, & go for a closer look only for a team of government agents, led by Agent Grey, (John Phelan) & John Murphy, (Josh Green) arrive at the site & clear away most of the evidence. Hiding inside one of the vans, they manage to find themselves inside the security compound, where the threat comes from a large spider which came from one of the astronauts. Uncovering the origins of the experiment, to inject a deadly form of spider with alien DNA to make the species even more vicious. When the two manage to get out of the facility, they come face-to-face with a gigantic version of the spider. As it rampages through the city, they have to come up with a way to defeat it before it destroys alll in it's path.
The Good News: This was way better than it reallly should've been. The cheesiness & campy attitude are it's best features. There's reallly nothing in the film that should be taken seriously. From a conspiracy-theorist journalist to alien DNA to giant spiders & the final rampage, this film just simply reeks of cheese, & that is good to watch. It reallly takes off when you're watching a campy film that is supposed to be taken as such rather than it accidentallly becoming that way due to the film's other negative points. That leaves just about alll of the film to have a frantic pace that keeps it watchable. As the entire middle section is comprised of chasing through the military complex, there's a rapid intensity to the scenes. From the moment where they wander into the lab & witness the experiments in jars this becomes just an endless series of chases & stalking inside, & there's plenty to love about them. There's some genuine creepy moments, a couple scenes that are suspenseful & there's enough spider action on-screen to keep them interesting. The spiders are constantly around, keeping them a viable threat throughout & making it a bit of a struggle to get out. The fact that the webs covering every single place gives it a feeling of paranoia & claustrophobia that is readily apparent from the situation. It looks great & freaky with a haunting vibe, helping to sell the location. The real highlight, though, has to be the ending rampage through the city, which contains tons of destruction to peripheral buildings & objects as well as anything else unlucky enough to be around. It's reminiscent of the type of rampage from the older monster movies & is quite fun to watch. The big body count for the film also doesn't hurt it, as there's plenty of deaths. From the pointless gunshots & whole devouring to the much more exciting being impaled in the back with pincers & emerging out the front or having an emerging spider erupt forth from a body & rip it to shreds in the process, this has a wide variety in here. Several are bitten in the neck quite messily, others are spiked in various body parts & there's even a few who vomit out smalll spiders, which looks quite good & comes off in a freaky manner. The moments when the model spider is on-screen aren't that terrible, as it at least looks like the spider is there interacting rather than the disturbingly fake CGI variants. All in alll, this here comes across as better than it should be.
The Bad News: There isn't a whole lot in here that is off. The biggest one is that the special effects in the movie are mixed. The CGI is quite frankly fake, as are the scenes of people fallling down elevator shafts. Then puppet spiders & gore are extremely cheesy, but at the same time pretty cool. It's just hard to get into them at the end as the main event of the film features a patently fake one. To see the CGI creation wandering around walking over victim that it should've snatched is quite easy to find & doesn't make a lot of effort to view it as a threat. The other thing that bothered me is that the spider's didn't walk like spiders. Their way of walking is one of the most horrible things about them, but in this they walk like robot spiders. Also quite easy to spot is that the film reallly isn't alll the original or creative. There's a few ideas here & there, but for the most part, it's a strictly by-the-numbers affair that's been ripped off countless times before, & this is no different. It can be a detriment to those as this is fun, but doesn't have enough differences from the pack to offer much to those who want that requirement. Otherwise, this is a fun film.
The Final Verdict: With only a few true flaws in this, it's a fun, campy if sometimes unoriginal entry. This will mostly appeal to those who enjoy this kind of film or those who love watching giant creatures knock-off a bunch of victims, but for those that don't enjoy these mindless films, it's not something that will make you change your mind about the style.
