| View Larger Image | Spiders | DVDStarring: Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready, Nick Swarts, Mark Phelan
Directed By: Gary Jones
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 93 minutes | | Format: | Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Lions Gate | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Release Date: | January 16, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 76,776th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 29 reviews)
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Evil Government Overlords Versus Self-Important College Newspaper Reporters by Robert I. Hedges  2 Stars
May 18, 2008
"Spiders" is one of the stupidest giant creature movies I have ever seen. The film starts with the launch of the space shuttle "Solaris", which is carrying a top secret government payload called "Project Mother-In-Law", due, no doubt, to it's horrifying powers. A college reporter is told to cover the story, but she's more interested in covering a ludicrous story about government conspiracy and aliens, and takes two of her buddies into the desert to look for evidence of nefarious activity. She was tipped off by two aliens whose crimes against humanity solely consisted of stealing and drinking non-dairy creamer. (Really.)
Meanwhile, on the "Solaris" (despite the fact that the name "Discovery" is clearly visible during the stock footage shots), a scientist injects alien DNA into a tarantula at exactly the same moment the shuttle is caught in a huge cosmic storm. The shuttle crash lands in the secret facility being investigated by the three teenagers in what has to be the worst model effect I have seen in years. Interestingly, the post-crash shuttle destruction is CGI, but that effect is terrible too.
Most of the rest of the film is spent with government evildoers, cub reporters, and giant CGI spiders chasing each other around a basement of horrors including a frozen "Apollo 18" astronaut, which inspires one of the teens to remark "It's like a bad sci-fi movie", and he is exactly right.
There are some fairly amusing action sequences, my favorite of which involved falling down an elevator shaft only to be caught in a giant web at the bottom. It turns out that the project is about world domination, which plays right into the conspiracy looniness prevalent in this movie.
Eventually a good government agent and the reporter team up and, after finding a spare helicopter with rocket launcher just sitting there ready to do battle with Mother-In-Law, take off for the nearby city where the giant spider is atop a building. (Haven't I seen a giant monster on a skyscraper somewhere before?) The girl lowers herself from the helicopter on a rope and fires a rocket into the spider's mouth concluding the movie, although I am aghast to report that there is apparently a sequel ("Spiders II: Breeding Ground") ready to further the franchise.
This film has some terrible acting, is plagued by insanely stupid coincidences and plot twists, and some of the worst dialogue you will ever hear in your life. None of this should surprise B-movie fans, though, as this was produced by Boaz Davidson, the same man who brought us "Crocodile".
I think the film is worth two stars for camp value: the sheer audaciousness of the plot makes it worth watching for fans of B-movies.
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An amusing cheap sci-fi flick by Papa Legba (Madison, WI)  4 Stars
October 29, 2006
I'm not saying you should BUY this, but it's good for a few laughs if you Netflix or Tivo it. The story draws you in just enough to stick around for the laughs. no real babes in this one if that's what you're after.
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Giant spiders  5 Stars
August 25, 2005
I think Gary Jone's Spiders movie is really great!! In fact I'm a spider liker myself! It was really interesting,I like the way he designed the Funnel Web Spider,except they don't spin ORB WEBS,they spin a Burrow thats lined with web.Its real strange how that Gray guy got to the place before Marci and Murphy.Its a real great movie
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Giant spiders 5 Stars
August 25, 2005
I think Gary Jone's Spiders movie is really great!! In fact I'm a spider liker myself! It was really interesting,I like the way he designed the Funnel Web Spider,except they don't spin ORB WEBS,they spin a Burrow thats lined with web.Its real strange how that Gray guy got to the place before Marci and Murphy.Its a real great movie
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Bug Formula but Fun to Watch by Dick Mann (Johnson County, KS, USA)  3 Stars
January 29, 2005
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.
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