GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

swifty77 'This is...like a bad science fiction movie'I was expecting this to be absolute rubbish, so imagine my surprise when I found the first half hour of this movie intriguingly watchable with the majority of problems being poor dialogue...but no worries, then the spiders appear! I breathed a sigh of relief as I could begin to laugh at the shoddy effects and all-too-pathetic deaths thrown in amongst a myriad of plot-holes that I literally can't even begin to pick up on. This was a monster movie that should have known it wasn't going to be good, which made it more disappointing when it seems that the director here was thinking they had the next 'Alien' franchise on their hands. An all too serious movie that should have taken the mick out of itself a LOT more.1/10(Will I watch 'Spiders 2'? Probably yeah.)

TheLittleSongbird I personally wouldn't go as far as to call it a great movie, the special effects are wildly inconsistent, sometimes decent but also sometimes very superficial and the film, despite the fact it has the feel of a parody, can get very derivative and predictable at times and the editing could have been a little sharper, at times there was too much of a 60s-70s TV movie feel to it. However, the costume and set design were reasonably good, I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek dialogue with its embracing of the genre clichés and the spiders do have a certain menace to them. There is also a nice mix of fun and scary moments, including the wonderfully chaotic ending, the characters are admittedly clichéd but I have seen and heard far worse written characters before in far worse movies that had no excuse to be as bad as they are and the young cast are very likable. Overall, not great but could have been far worse. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Bloodwank In this sad day an age the creature feature is a much devalued beast. I don't know exactly when the crunch point came or which film marked it, but there was undoubtedly a turning point, terrible and seemingly hard to resist where directors realised they didn't need animatronics, any practical work or even imagination and could just rely on farming out a couple of pissant drawings to the cheapest available CGI animators and spunk the results on screen without a care for the quality. As a chump raised on vintage monster films it annoys the heck out of me, so I'm all the more pleased when I see a creature feature that doesn't suck donkey junk. In this way, Spiders gave me a good deal of pleasure. Taking a blessedly ludicrous turn of events as its set up, it contrives after a short build to have three college students out and about in a secret military facility when a deadly mutant spider gets loose. The execution is fairly solid, director Gary Jones knows his way around this kind of film he made near classic Mosquito in the 90's) and although the pacing has a few blips the action has verve. Acting is generic but entertaining, Lana Parilla is fun as the daft but spunky heroine while Oliver Macready and Jake Swarts hold up their end enthusiastically enough as her companions. Mark Phelan gets most credit though as he villain of the piece, he act up a storm and gives loopy good value. The neatest things about the film are its effects and writing though, the writing in particular. It was co-written by Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson, a prolific partnership who love horror and come across as rather nice people but tend to be a bit rubbish when writing anything other than the most mindless of trash (key examples of their ineptitude being Mother of Tears and Mortuary) . Here they are in their element (as they were working on the great Crocodile 2: Death Roll), the writing in this one never takes itself too seriously and is frequently rather amusing, both intentionally and otherwise. No one really comes across as a realistic human being and the whole thing is hardly Faulkner as far as movie scripts go, but its constantly lively and good fun. The effects were done by the KNB team (the practical ones at least) and there isn't too much CGI, as a result there are some pretty cool scenes, a couple of nifty kills and some effectively nasty after the fact corpses. The spider is an effective antagonist as well, sweetly designed and popping out for jump scares to good effect. The film did need more gore and a bit of adjustment during some scenes, but wipes away most complaints with a hysterically crazy and hence near brilliant climax, pushing it comfortably into the realms of guilty pleasure humdingery. TC says check this sucker out...

patrick-green Spiders, a title that conveys the movie's subject quite well since it is about those small, eight-legged arachnids everyone has already seen in their home or garden. But the spider, for there is only one spider in this film, is not the small, garden variety spider. For one, it is god awfully huge, something that will make any amateur entomologist go into a bout of annoyed tutting (that thing would die of asphyxiation blabla).But let us not be bothered by the unhappy grumblings of amateur entomologists, ie bug lovers, and look at the spider and the film in which it is set. The film starts out with a bunch of geeky kids whose leader, a young woman whose name I cannot remember, is fascinated by aliens and conspiracy theories. The girl does an interview with someone who claims to be an alien, and who is the object of a lot of painful, unfunny comedy such as drinking condensed milk(get it? condensed milk is for coffee! Haha...ha...what).After this delightful episode, the gang travels to an old base in the desert where they witness the rather fake and unimpressive crash of a space shuttle...which was, unfortunately for everyone, the space borne center of a strange experiment involving a live tarantula and the injection of alien DNA into said tarantula. Why they didn't choose a mouse or a rat like normal scientists would is uncertain, although a film about a giant man-eating mouse might not have the same appeal as a giant arachnid on alien steroids.The men in black or CIA agents or whoever they are promptly arrive to mop up this atrocious mess and retrieve the spider, but the poor creature is ungraciously stepped on by one of the tuxedo'd, sunglass-wearing government agents. Much to the chagrin of their leader (maybe he was an entomologist?).But fear not, for the spider laid an egg in the entrails of an unfortunate astronaut who survived the crash, and the arachnid's ugly, fat, rubberized prop of an offspring is subsequently vomited out by the unfortunate rocket man and escapes into the sinister realm of a top secret underground base.What can we say? For one, the spider is atrocious and looks like one of those cheap toys you'd find in the bottom racks of the toy section of your local supermarket. The eight-legged beast is pictured using cheap, stiff puppets and some ugly CGI effects that would make even the old Atari console's graphics look like a masterpiece. There are no animatronics in this film, do not be fooled, you'll just see a stiff rubber spider being pushed against/thrown at people.The actors are also horrible, with acting talents ranging from rubber duck level to sock puppet level. The main human antagonist, who looks a lot like a botched Mr Smith clone, is good for a few "what" moments as he passionately defends the ugly spider with a lot of laughable over-acting and fugly world conquest delusions. The leading actress is also risible, and falls in love with a man in black after a quick session of water-wrestling (I'm not joking).All in all, the film is pathetic. Monster Flick lovers might recognise a kind of 1950s monster movie atmosphere to the whole enterprise. In fact, the movie should be viewed as a light comedy to watch with friends and a copious supply of alcohol.