Good concept, poorly executed.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Blistering performances.

This movie essentially begins with some astronauts on the space shuttle who are in the process of conducting experiments on spiders while in space. Suddenly a solar flare hits the space shuttle and causes an emergency situation prompting an immediate return to earth. However, since the experiments they were conducting were highly classified, the space shuttle is reported to have been burned up upon reentry--when in all actuality it has crash-landed in the Californian desert. Then, as luck would have it, a college reporter named "Marci Eyre" (Lana Parrilla) and two of her friends by the names of "Jake" (Nick Swarts) and "Slick" (Oliver Macready) just happen to be at the same location investing possible aliens when they observe the space shuttle's descent. Rushing to the site they see three dead astronauts with injuries incompatible with the crash and another astronaut who is clearly suffering from some kind of severe illness and on the verge of death. All of a sudden some government agents arrive accompanied by military personnel and the three reporters subsequently hide in a truck to avoid detection. They are then transported to a secret government facility which is located underground. Upon quietly exiting from the truck they investigate this facility and discover all kinds of evidence pointing to some really horrific experiments. But the worst is yet to come. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I had hoped for a film containing some good suspense and horror. A key component of that would also include some good CGI. Unfortunately, although the suspense was adequate enough, the horror and special effects were not very sharp at all. Additionally, the attempts at humor weren't very effective either and only served to give the movie a rather cheap quality. In short, I was somewhat disappointed in this film and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

Oh, the irony.To be frank, I only sought after this film because of how much I adored Mosquito, another giant bug movie from the same director, Gary Jones. Let me tell you, this is no Mosquito. Not even close.Spiders has some cool aspects. For example, the climax of the film is surprisingly enjoyable and the animtronic effects look somewhat decent half of the time, as the DVD cover proudly boasts "from the same effects team as Army Of Darkness, Spawn, and Wishmaster!" But the compliments end there. Porn stars would be facepalming in embarrassment at the lack of acting ability present at the set, but I'm not sure who to blame; the actors or the abysmal script.This has got to be one of the worst screenplays I've ever seen translated into film. Every line of dialog is clichéd and laughable, with laughable line delivery by the elementary school play actors to top it off. Yes, Mosquito had some terrible acting too, but it had good acting to even it out. There is only one good actor in Spiders, and he says two lines before getting shot. Excellent casting guys, bravo. It also doesn't help that the characters are written with zero likability as they make dumb decision after dumb decision after dumb decision. Truly, the characters and actors are what subtract so many stars from the rating.Gary Jones made Mosquito with only $200,000 but created an enjoyable and extremely entertaining B-movie with lots of gore and high rewatch value. Gary Jones made Spiders with $2 million, but created an embarrassing, appalling mess with little to no redeemable factors.

I am a huge fan of movies and TV programmes. This like many other DVD's i buy went straight back to the shop. I haven't seen the film in a while (that is a good thing) but can remember the basic outline of the plot and story. A top secret DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider goes horrifically wrong as a freak meteor shower engulfs a NASA shuttle on a deep space mission. Tragedy hits the doomed space-craft as it is re-directed to a secret location in the heart of the California desert. The only survivor has been inpregnated with the venom of a rogue killer spider (sounds exciting to say the least) In the depths of a secret underground base another killer spider hatches from the body of the space shuttle survivor (WOW). An X-Files-style conspiracy creates and unleashes murderous mutant spiders feeding on their victims and growing in size after each kill. Mayhem ensues as a giant killer spider stomps through the streets of LA (as always)! Ridiculous from the start and very boring overall. The cheesiest part is where the two last friends are caught in a giant web in a elevator shaft and a spider comes running down the wall, if you see the sequel, this shot is used again. The boy lets his friend survive by making the spider in some way go for him. In LA the spider gets bigger and the special effects literally bomb. It looks as if they have followed a spider round with a video camera and got some dud idiot to blow it up. They eventually kill it by shooting it in the mouth. BORING the film went straight back to the shop. Hated it from the opening titles through to the dismal end. The plot, effects and seriously bad acting are'nt even laughable i would give this film a 0/10 if possible, don't waste time buying this film because you WILL take it backthank you, stephenquinn

The plot:(such as it is)Plucky girl reporter and her two chums witness the crash landing of a space shuttle. Unaware the MIBs have been doing experiments onboard with nasty spiders and one of them is loose, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys nip inside the wreck. The army and evil government people arrive. Drew and the boys hide in the back of a truck. The truck goes to a MYSTERIOUS (and unpopulated) secret underground military installation. Nancy and the boys wander around and are lucky enough to see a GIANT SPIDER bursting out of the only survivor from the shuttle. It starts killing people. Everyone runs around for hours getting killed off one by one, until only feisty girl reporter and, not quite as evil as we thought, cardboard-cutout Man In Black, (wearing identical sweaty white vests), are alive. They squash the variably sized spider monster by dropping a lift on it. They rush to the student newspaper office to write up the story (a process that may take some time, given the way plucky girl reporter moves her lips when reading) BUT! The really evil MIB has survived and is waiting for them in the editor's blood splattered office. After a (mercifully short) evil guy exposition he explodes and turns into a HUGE spider monster. Which runs around campus eating people. Hero and heroine get into the exploded evil guy's helicopter (I guess he must have left the keys in) and fly off after it to the city. With their last remaining round, and a punctured fuel tank, they blow up the spider-monster. The End (I guess the envelope the script was written on wasn't big enough for any more.) The dialogue in this movie is truly awful. Okay, it's a Nu Image movie so I'm not expecting Pinter or Ibsen here but the writing on this thing was just plain sh!t. I lost count of the number of times characters said "Let's get out of here". Half of the movie is taken up with people wandering around the usual empty chemical factory basement telling each other: "Let's get the hell out of here", or "Let's get the fvck out of here", "Come on let's go", "Come on we got to check this out", C'mon let's go!" "What the hell was that?" "c'mon lets go, Let's getthe hell outofhere Let's go blahblahgohangonthisway.... after a while you just want to scream SHUT UP! Stand still and Die! All of you! Now! At one point towards the end our plucky girl reporter falls out of a helicopter while holding a loaded antitank weapon. "Hang on!" cries our hero who is flying the copter. Several times. Duh! I mean did people get paid to write this?