Truly Dreadful Film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Trekking into the Indian rain-forest, a group of backpackers exploring the area are forced to stay in a remote tribe of spider worshippers using the creatures for an organ-smuggling ring and must find a way of getting away from the creatures alive.This was quite an enjoyable is slightly flawed creature feature. Among the better qualities featured here is the rather creepy atmosphere this one builds up of being around spiders, which plays into the most rational fear of being around the creatures. Being around the creatures here is terrifying, as there's a ton made about their poisonous nature here, and it's more than simply hinted at here as their continuous appearance that requires saving, his secretive brother draped in a cobweb hood and nearly everything covered in cobwebs is a nearly continuous assault about the creatures and there's a wonderful atmosphere derived from this section. The cave scenes here are just really chilling, as the first one of the explorers looking inside the different outcroppings covered in webbing before getting lost in the disorienting design and then overwhelmed completely by the thousands of creatures, while the scene of the inspector stumbling around there is quite chilling. Even more impressive, though, is the entire final half is just highly chilling and suspenseful as there's no shortage of action and suspense here that's just relentless and exciting. The action here is great, from the tribal ceremony getting interrupted and forcing them underground into the tunnels and caves requiring a series of frantic stalking throughout as they try to remain hidden from the tribe while avoiding the spiders, getting trapped in the different webbing throughout and finally meeting the helpful officer inside as they guide each other through the darkened, web-covered tunnels here. As well, there's a lot of suspense here as there's the tense hiding out during the chasing but also the tense scene of having to maneuver themselves around the ledge of a web-covered wall above a bottom-less pit crawling with spiders to get to safety and an even creepier scene later of having to cross another chasm using a bridge made of webbing even though the whole party can't cross at once. These two factors here make this one so good here that it gets a ton of good-will just from this section, and with the build-up in the first half gives this one so much to like. Along with a fantastic final twist, these here are enough to hold off the few flaws. The main issue here is the fact that there's little actual action in the first half with this one really selling the atmosphere of being in the village rather than having any kind of action displayed, and it can make for a somewhat bland start here. The only other small problem here is the fact that the tribe's actions are way too scattered in the final half, showing the tribe chasing them in the caves then back into the organ-harvesting angle without capturing them merely to keep the plot line involved and decidedly giving off the inclusion of its rushed nature into the story. Otherwise, it's quite a fun and admittedly creepy creature feature.Rated R: Violence, Brief Nudity and Language.

Initially I had hopes for "In the Spider's Web" because the DVD cover looked so promising. A dark place with a person hanging down, suspended by webbing and wrapped up like a cocoon. Underneath the helpless person is a number of skulls and at the front of the DVD cover is a fairly cool-looking big spider.I love monster movies, unfortunately there are just too many bad ones out there. "In the Spider's Web", however, fall into the not-so-great category of creature features. The movie means well enough, but it just have a story that is hard to believe and buy into, and that makes the movie all the more difficult to digest.The acting in the movie wasn't bad, mind you, the actors just struggled with a weak storyline and plot. I hadn't expected Lance Henriksen on the cast list here, so it was a nice surprise to see that.What really made the movie not work for me, was the spiders. In some scenes they made use of real spiders, which was really cool. Then in other scenes they used poorly animated CGI spiders, and often repeated the same scene. But wait, it gets better, in many scenes they were using plastic toy spiders hanging down from above in strings. And it was so painstakingly obvious that it was toys, as they weren't moving about at all. That was just too hilarious and it had me shaking me head in disbelief.I enjoy spider movies, however there are not all that many of them that have turned out to be super great. And now having seen "In the Spider's Web", I can honestly say it will be bagged, tagged and shelved in my DVD collection, most likely never to be played again.

In the Spider's Web is set somewhere in India where several friends are on holiday in a huge forest, Brian (Mike Rogers) claims little is known of the region except lots of Spider's live there. After one of the friends Geraldine (Jane Perry) is bitten by a poisonous Spider while sleeping the rest of the party decide to take her to the nearest village for help where they find Dr. Lecorpus (lance Henriksen) who happens to be a bit of an expert on Spider's, he does all he can to save Geraldine although the other's feel they need outside help so decide to split up with Brian & Stacy (Lisa Livingstone) staying behind at the village while the rest head for the nearest town. However it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Lecorpus' intentions are far from well meaning & as a disgraced surgeon harvests human organs to sell on the black market using the special properties of Spider venom...Directed by Terry Winsor this is yet another 'Creature Feature' that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel before hitting DVD shelves as part of the Maneater series of films which includes some terrible stuff & I am sad to say In the Spider's Web pretty much continues the trend. To be fair the makers of In the Spider's Web have tried to mix a few genres together here with elements of creature feature with the Spider's themselves, mad scientist horror with Henriksen harvesting human organs for profit & adventure with daring escapes across huge ravines using bridges made of Spider's webs but it still doesn't add up to anything that significant or good. A lot of the plot is underdeveloped (how do they harvest the Spider venom, what's the story behind the guy with a bag over his head & why do the tribe worship Spider's or even help Dr. Lecorpus?), the character's are poor, the dialogue is poor & it's fairly forgettable. At just over 80 odd minutes at least it's not too long & it does move along at a fair pace but I really can't say I enjoyed watching it to any great degree.There isn't even any gore to take your mind off the the bad script, there's a bit of fake blood but nothing else worth mentioning. The Spider's themselves are depicted using real Spider's which look good for obvious reason, fake rubber ones which look daft as they dangle on string & don't move at all & the CGI computer graphics ones which are awful & just look bad as they move along. Also it's worth noting just how none sticky the Spider's webs are in this, the three at the end walk across that web bridge but never get stuck once & everyone else just walks through or over the stuff & yet it never sticks to anything which is odd because even normal sized ones you find in your garden shed are sticky if you touch them let alone supposedly thousands woven together.Obviously shot on a low budget this had some filming in Thailand although some of the jungle scenes are plainly studio bound as you can hear that distinctive sound stage echo. The acting is pretty bad all round & Henriksen deserves to be in better than this, he doesn't even get a decent death scene.In the Spider's Web is another bad Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' that is as forgettable as most of the other's, lots of time spent following people walking around a cave but little else to be honest.

This is possibly the best TV sci-Fi/horror movie i have ever seen. The essence of the classic spider movies (kingdom of the spiders, arachnophobia e.t.c to name a few) is inside this creepy and chilling tale about a village thats attacked by the arachnids and a sinister doctor who has more than the usual liking to these eight legged killers. I saw this on Sky two the other night. Scared the hell out of me and gave me a case of the squirms. The spiders are real and mostly shown in close up detail just to make your skin crawl and they were terrifying. I screamed a couple of times when they did attack. Checked my bed several times to make sure none were in my room. Yes i know that sounds silly but this film does that to you. You see so many close-ups of spiders that you start to feel the paranoia that the characters face and you eyes start to play tricks on you. Another good thing about this film is that the spiders do descend from the ceiling or roof and drop on their victims. If the view of a big hairy and deadly tarantula doesn't scare you, then you must have steel for blood and be warned there are lots of spiders in this, and i mean lots. Crawling on walls, webs and even humans, its an arachnophobics nightmare. Towards the end some of the spiders become CGI and that does slightly kill the mood but then you come face to face with a real one and the fear returns.Lance Henriksen is good for the role of the Doctor as the other cast work well together with the spiders, making you believe in the terror that they are facing. The director work this clever web of horror round you and instills the real fear that the characters have faced and some have not lived from.All in all a good skin crawling horror movie that i'd love to see again and hope that someone releases it on DVD.