Rating: 
Summary: Starts out well, then has nowhere to go....
Review: "Spiders" started out pretty well, with an interesting premise. Alien conspiracies, secret government agencies, college newspapers etc. Ok. Similiar to the far superior "ticks" this film had really great looking spiders, bugs, and gore. The best part in the film is when the elevator leads to the giant spider's lair. The worst element of the film was either a parody or a send up, I'm frankly not sure, to Blair Witch Project in which the lead actress laments the deaths of her two male friends and feels responsible. Corny voiceovers sound eerily reminescent of Blair Witch, "you and your story" etc. Not funny, and also just strange in this action movie, the moment ended up being awkward. I didn't think the acting was bad personally. However, the film just doesn't have that much of a plot, and after the elevator scene, has nowhere to go. The stereotyped "evil" army colonel has been done so many times before, and so much better. Even the giant spider galloping through a college campus left much to be desired. The end is indeed laughable, and my interest had waned to the point where I actually started reading a book. Yawn. Stay away.
Rating: 
Summary: Bug Formula but Fun to Watch
Review: This heart pounding movie has all the earmarks of 50's bug and monster movies with a few
modern conspiracy theories thrown in. The formula consisted of spiders, aliens whom the
government is hiding and denying their existence, good guy bad guy government agents, a
woman who takes foolish risks to save everyone she knows, and who violates every common
sense axiom with her actions. I knew the two nerds would get it. I knew the soldiers would get
it. I knew the woman (Lana Parilla) would survive along with the good guy agent (Josh Green).
I was hoping the head grunt would say to the bad guy agent, "not if I shoot you first." He ended
up in the spider pantry. What really got me was Parilla shooting down the giant spider with a
bazooka while swinging on a rope from the helicopter. I'm a crack shot and I doubt if I could
have done it. In spite of the hokeyness, I enjoyed the movie. It kept me on the edge of my seat
until the credits. What, no kiss for the hero? Well, the 50's are long gone.
Rating:
Summary: Starts out well, then has nowhere to go....
Review: "Spiders" started out pretty well, with an interesting premise. Alien conspiracies, secret government agencies, college newspapers etc. Ok. Similiar to the far superior "ticks" this film had really great looking spiders, bugs, and gore. The best part in the film is when the elevator leads to the giant spider's lair. The worst element of the film was either a parody or a send up, I'm frankly not sure, to Blair Witch Project in which the lead actress laments the deaths of her two male friends and feels responsible. Corny voiceovers sound eerily reminescent of Blair Witch, "you and your story" etc. Not funny, and also just strange in this action movie, the moment ended up being awkward. I didn't think the acting was bad personally. However, the film just doesn't have that much of a plot, and after the elevator scene, has nowhere to go. The stereotyped "evil" army colonel has been done so many times before, and so much better. Even the giant spider galloping through a college campus left much to be desired. The end is indeed laughable, and my interest had waned to the point where I actually started reading a book. Yawn. Stay away.
Rating:
Summary: Better than expected
Review: A straight-to-video release, but not badly done. The spider actually looks better as it gets bigger, from two to thirty feet long. The two foot spider is extremely plastic looking, as it is tossed around the set on wires, but the six, and finally thirty foot spider, are done well, with the latter tearing across streets and parking lots, eating cars along the way! The synopsis on the back of the DVD case was unpromising, as the story is ridiculous, with secret govt. bases and crashing space shuttles, but it played out better than it read. This is a fun, well made B-movie, worth checking out!
Rating: 
Summary: Giant Spiders and conspiracies
Review: A very well thought out bugfest. While the title creatures are the original reason for watching this one, there is far more to the plot than rampaging arachnids. A college newspaper reporter is convinced that aliens exist and that the government has been hiding the fact. But when she heads to a secret government facility that is supposedly abandoned, she finds far more than she was expecting. First off, a shuttle that supposedly burned up on re-entry lands at the base. The crew are dead in horrendous ways. Then the Men in Black show up. They are obviously cruel and cold-blooded. Trying to avoid discovery, she and her friends hide in a truck and find themselves far underground beneath the facility. There they discover aliens, Apollo missions that were never reported, and a project to mix alien DNA with that of spiders. Then things get really tense. Fun, fast and with some true jump-out-of-your-0seat moments, this is an above average monster flick with excellent effects and a solid storyline.
Rating:
Summary: Giant Spiders and conspiracies
Review: A very well thought out bugfest. While the title creatures are the original reason for watching this one, there is far more to the plot than rampaging arachnids. A college newspaper reporter is convinced that aliens exist and that the government has been hiding the fact. But when she heads to a secret government facility that is supposedly abandoned, she finds far more than she was expecting. First off, a shuttle that supposedly burned up on re-entry lands at the base. The crew are dead in horrendous ways. Then the Men in Black show up. They are obviously cruel and cold-blooded. Trying to avoid discovery, she and her friends hide in a truck and find themselves far underground beneath the facility. There they discover aliens, Apollo missions that were never reported, and a project to mix alien DNA with that of spiders. Then things get really tense. Fun, fast and with some true jump-out-of-your-0seat moments, this is an above average monster flick with excellent effects and a solid storyline.
Rating:
Summary: I was impressed
Review: For a b-movie this was good, I enjoyed it, the acting was decent and the effects I think were pretty realistic, not all computer special effects, kind of like the ones used in aliens, well machines if you will make it look more realistic. But just want to add something if anybody knows Jonathon Breck the guy who played Jacobs in this movie also played the monster in Jeepers Creepers, which is awesome, just wanted to add that. I say though if anyone likes aliens and arachnophobia im sure youll enjoy this, Of course 8 legged freaks will prob. be 10 times better, but still this is a good movie, enjoy.
Rating: 
Summary: TIME TRAVEL BACK TO THE FIFTIES
Review: Gary Jones should be commended for his faithfulness to those wonderful giant bug movies of the fifties, like "Tarantula" and "Them." In this underappreciated thriller, Jones gives us animatronic spiders that look as real as one could expect, and delivers an action packed, delightful thriller. Of course, the plot has holes, and there are some ridiculous "how come so and so did this?" Like, for instance LANA PARRILLA, the savvy and Siguourney Weaverish heroine, has her glasses knocked off, crushed, and there is no mention of how this girl can see so well. Sure, JOSH GREEN has to have his shirt come off so we can see that buff bod. (How in the world does anyone get shoulders that wide???). But who cares? I enjoyed the ride, and the guilty pleasure of watching giant spiders running amock. There is some clever lines and I liked the innocence and naivete of the actors. Parilla starts out pretty obnoxious, and continues to be so, but by the time she joins forces with Green, she's a knockout. Green is also more than just a hunk of meat; his soft-spoken innocence and his easy swagger are endearing and refreshing in a day of "super macho" men. And just when you think the movie is over, the ending explodes and it's pure mayhem and excitement thereon.
I just loved this movie, because it was so much like those older gems, and it fulfilled those childhood fantasies of heroism and the good guy always wins!
Rating:
Summary: TIME TRAVEL BACK TO THE FIFTIES
Review: Gary Jones should be commended for his faithfulness to those wonderful giant bug movies of the fifties, like "Tarantula" and "Them." In this underappreciated thriller, Jones gives us animatronic spiders that look as real as one could expect, and delivers an action packed, delightful thriller. Of course, the plot has holes, and there are some ridiculous "how come so and so did this?" Like, for instance LANA PARRILLA, the savvy and Siguourney Weaverish heroine, has her glasses knocked off, crushed, and there is no mention of how this girl can see so well. Sure, JOSH GREEN has to have his shirt come off so we can see that buff bod. (How in the world does anyone get shoulders that wide???). But who cares? I enjoyed the ride, and the guilty pleasure of watching giant spiders running amock. There is some clever lines and I liked the innocence and naivete of the actors. Parilla starts out pretty obnoxious, and continues to be so, but by the time she joins forces with Green, she's a knockout. Green is also more than just a hunk of meat; his soft-spoken innocence and his easy swagger are endearing and refreshing in a day of "super macho" men. And just when you think the movie is over, the ending explodes and it's pure mayhem and excitement thereon.
I just loved this movie, because it was so much like those older gems, and it fulfilled those childhood fantasies of heroism and the good guy always wins!
Rating:
Summary: TIME TRAVEL BACK TO THE FIFTIES
Review: Gary Jones should be commended for his faithfulness to those wonderful giant bug movies of the fifties, like "Tarantula" and "Them." In this underappreciated thriller, Jones gives us animatronic spiders that look as real as one could expect, and delivers an action packed, delightful thriller. Of course, the plot has holes, and there are some ridiculous "how come so and so did this?" Like, for instance LANA PARRILLA, the savvy and Siguourney Weaverish heroine, has her glasses knocked off, crushed, and there is no mention of how this girl can see so well. Sure, JOSH GREEN has to have his shirt come off so we can see that buff bod. (How in the world does anyone get shoulders that wide???). But who cares? I enjoyed the ride, and the guilty pleasure of watching giant spiders running amock. There is some clever lines and I liked the innocence and naivete of the actors. Parilla starts out pretty obnoxious, and continues to be so, but by the time she joins forces with Green, she's a knockout. Green is also more than just a hunk of meat; his soft-spoken innocence and his easy swagger are endearing and refreshing in a day of "super macho" men. And just when you think the movie is over, the ending explodes and it's pure mayhem and excitement thereon.
I just loved this movie, because it was so much like those older gems, and it fulfilled those childhood fantasies of heroism and the good guy always wins!
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