CommentsXp Best movie ever!

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

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Tonci Pivac Ice Spiders is set in the Lost Mountain skiing resort in Logan County in Utah where hotshot skier Dan 'Dash' Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) works as a ski instructor, local ranger Rick Dickerson (K. Danor Gerald) ask's Dash for help in searching for two missing hunter's on a nearby mountain range which Dash dutifully agrees to. They find one of the hunters dead, horribly mutilated & the other cocooned in what looks like Spider's silk. Then they are attacked a giant genetically created Spider that has escaped from a nearby Government laboratory, with six deadly giant Spider's on the loose in total no-one is safe as it's up to ex-marine & all round hero Dash to go way beyond the call of duty to save the day...Directed by Tibor Takács this is yet another 'Creature Feature' Sci-Fi Channel original that is far from original & is pretty standard stuff from start to finish. The script features everything any seasoned 'Creature Feature' lover would expect, there's the young teenage cast, the all American hero who has to overcome some sort of fear to save the day, genetically created creatures of some sort developed for military purposes, bad CGI computer effects, an isolated location for the Spider's to attack & the human cast to get stuck in, a corrupt scientist who only cares about the experiment & not human life, a military presence & of course a love interest for the lead hero. It's all here in abundance. Ice Spiders is far from the worst of it's kind that I have seen, it's still not a particularly good film by any stretch of the imagination but I did enjoy it to a certain extent more than I thought I would. The pace is good & from the opening Spider attack scene right through to the end the film never slows down & I can't say I was bored although what I was more than aware that what I was watching was still pretty average stuff. The character's are alright & aren't as annoying as usual, the plot is fairly standard stuff & it's clear not much thought went into other than to hang the basic 'genetically creature giant creature on the loose' plot around & there's a few amusing scenes here if your in the right mood I suppose. The dialogue is of often unintentionally funny & the film doesn't seem to take itself too seriously & while I would hesitate to describe Ice Spiders as a good film I certainly don't think it's a terrible one either.There is no build up to the revelation of the Spider's in Ice Spiders & one is seen in it's full CGI glory within the first three minutes, the cheap looking CGI computer effects range from the strictly average to the absolutely awful. There's no real build up of tension to any of the attack scenes either so the film lacks any scares or any atmosphere & the entire thing takes place during the day which makes things easy to see but setting a horror film about giant Spider's in broad daylight cuts down the options for suspense sequences & as such the film lacks any. There's some minor gore here, someone is seen ripped in half, there are a few mutilated bodies, some blood splatter & some mutilated animal bodies too.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 the production values are alright, the mountain wilderness scenery is nice enough to look at & poor CGI computer effects apart it's reasonably well made. The acting is mostly poor from people who look like they don't want to be there, Patrick Muldoon in particular looks to be putting zero effort into things. Even though Vanessa Williams was forty three when she shot Ice Spiders she looks about nineteen in it.Ice Spiders is a slightly better than usual Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' although that in itself isn't saying much & is certainly no recommendation. Not bad for it's type but since it's type is usually so awful it's still nothing worth busting a gut to see.

jgweiner I watched this movie late one night and was blown away. The cinematography really captured the helplessness and passion of the situation and I thought the musical score really underlined the intensity.The characters are portrayed brilliantly by this assortment of previously unknown but soon-to-be world recognized actors and actresses, and I hope to see many more films directed by this wonderful producer.I don't want to spoil any of the twisted and complicated plot, but rest assured that you will reach new realms of spiritual enlightenment on completion of this epic tale.Best of luck to the cast and crew in all their future endeavors!

Paul Andrews Ice Spiders is set in the Lost Mountain skiing resort in Logan County in Utah where hotshot skier Dan 'Dash' Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) works as a ski instructor, local ranger Rick Dickerson (K. Danor Gerald) ask's Dash for help in searching for two missing hunter's on a nearby mountain range which Dash dutifully agrees to. They find one of the hunters dead, horribly mutilated & the other cocooned in what looks like Spider's silk. Then they are attacked a giant genetically created Spider that has escaped from a nearby Government laboratory, with six deadly giant Spider's on the loose in total no-one is safe as it's up to ex-marine & all round hero Dash to go way beyond the call of duty to save the day...Directed by Tibor Takács this is yet another 'Creature Feature' Sci-Fi Channel original that is far from original & is pretty standard stuff from start to finish. The script features everything any seasoned 'Creature Feature' lover would expect, there's the young teenage cast, the all American hero who has to overcome some sort of fear to save the day, genetically created creatures of some sort developed for military purposes, bad CGI computer effects, an isolated location for the Spider's to attack & the human cast to get stuck in, a corrupt scientist who only cares about the experiment & not human life, a military presence & of course a love interest for the lead hero. It's all here in abundance. Ice Spiders is far from the worst of it's kind that I have seen, it's still not a particularly good film by any stretch of the imagination but I did enjoy it to a certain extent more than I thought I would. The pace is good & from the opening Spider attack scene right through to the end the film never slows down & I can't say I was bored although what I was more than aware that what I was watching was still pretty average stuff. The character's are alright & aren't as annoying as usual, the plot is fairly standard stuff & it's clear not much thought went into other than to hang the basic 'genetically creature giant creature on the loose' plot around & there's a few amusing scenes here if your in the right mood I suppose. The dialogue is of often unintentionally funny & the film doesn't seem to take itself too seriously & while I would hesitate to describe Ice Spiders as a good film I certainly don't think it's a terrible one either.There is no build up to the revelation of the Spider's in Ice Spiders & one is seen in it's full CGI glory within the first three minutes, the cheap looking CGI computer effects range from the strictly average to the absolutely awful. There's no real build up of tension to any of the attack scenes either so the film lacks any scares or any atmosphere & the entire thing takes place during the day which makes things easy to see but setting a horror film about giant Spider's in broad daylight cuts down the options for suspense sequences & as such the film lacks any. There's some minor gore here, someone is seen ripped in half, there are a few mutilated bodies, some blood splatter & some mutilated animal bodies too.With a supposed budget of about $2,000,000 the production values are alright, the mountain wilderness scenery is nice enough to look at & poor CGI computer effects apart it's reasonably well made. The acting is mostly poor from people who look like they don't want to be there, Patrick Muldoon in particular looks to be putting zero effort into things. Even though Vanessa Williams was forty three when she shot Ice Spiders she looks about nineteen in it.Ice Spiders is a slightly better than usual Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' although that in itself isn't saying much & is certainly no recommendation. Not bad for it's type but since it's type is usually so awful it's still nothing worth busting a gut to see.

doctorsmoothlove I remember playing Bomberman 64 as a child. It was a frustrating video game with indulgent level design and tedious item collecting. One thing I loved about that game was its boss fights. Players would fight large monsters at the end of each stage. One of these monsters was a large spider-like creature called "Cold Killer." That was way back in 1997, but Cold Killer looks better than the CGI rejects in Tibor Takács' Ice Spiders.Imagine body armor made from spider silk. It would be indestructible, but impossible to obtain. Now imagine a government sponsored program to genetically alter spiders so that they can produce silk in bulk. Don't neglect to place this secret government facility next to a ski resort which apparently has no computers or cell phone service. Welcome to Ice Spiders! That's the whole movie, seriously. Random people die from poorly edited spider attacks. The actual "death scenes" occur at a distance, and the only gore visible is the aftermath. I was hoping the movie would devolve into stylized violence but it didn't. Sci-Fi Channel films don't have enough budget to produce lifelike monsters which eliminates suspense. Humor would have given us distraction from the terribly rendered spiders.The DVD case will have you believe that the film follows a pre-Olympic ski team while they train. While mostly true, it's misleading. No one on the ski team dies, not even the stereotypically arrogant youngster. The team arrives, is threatened by a single spider, and becomes irrelevant thereafter. Focusing on a small group would have provided focus to the picture. Instead, only bit characters are killed. Most have no dialog so we have no connection to them.Once they arrive, the story shifts to ski instructor Dan Dashiell and sexy yet unconvincing scientist April Sommers. Both are played by subpar actors Patrick Muldoon and Vanessa Williams who don't act seriously. Muldoon is the worse of the two. He responds to each situation with the same tone, whether he discovers a body in the woods or impales a spider with a deer antler. I also find it amusing that his character suffers from a past skiing injury but isn't affected by it now. Williams changes her voice tone and expression enough to resonate to the plot. Her outfits are unusual, though. She is always (I think) shown wearing pink winter clothes, like your wealth friend's super hot daughter would wear. The movie has no suspense, no gore, and is poorly acted. Is it worse than I've described? No it isn't. Some explanation is provided for the spiders' unusual growth, and April explains how they survive the cold. I didn't expect such detail in the script and it saved the experience for me. The entire experience is blasé but at least some part of it is redeemable. It's like tutoring a group of unruly students, one of whom has a natural talent for the subject. While the group is still disinterested, one doesn't have to struggle as much to instruct that individual student.There are many spider movies out there but not many have been released recently. The last Hollywood one (excluding Spider-man) was Eight Legged Freaks. That movie is this one presented effectively as a comedy. It's difficult to imagine giant spiders eating everyone so why not make it funny? You could make it scary too, like Arachnophobia. Both films had higher budgets than this one but they knew what type of film they were. Ice Spiders doesn't know which type of film it wants to be. The screenplay is full of unintended humor and the visual effects aren't realistic enough to be scary. It's a mess of sappy dialog and poor digital animation.* out of *****