Andrew Stoddard, Billy Maddox, Corey Klemow, David Carpenter, H. Murphy ...( see more  see more... ) , Jonathan Breck , Josh Green , Lana Parrilla , Leslie Harter , Mark Phelan , Mark Totty , Nick Swarts , Oliver Macready , Simone Levin , Steven Sullivan

When a top secret experiment in space involving a spider being injected withalien DNA goes horribly wrong when the space shuttle is hit by a solarflare. This results in the shuttle crash landing and c...( read more  read more... )reating a rathernasty spider problem.

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R, 94 min.

Directed by: Gary Jones

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: October 9, 2001

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  • January 4, 2009
    Another mediocre celebration of arachnophobia with the usual government-science-project-gone-wrong footnote. Some tits and some humour wouldda saved it.
  • March 22, 2009
    This is one of those highly low-budget films that are so bad that they are good. The plot is mediocre, some of the special effects are laughable and the dialogue is extremelly cheesy.
    Recommended for those who like to sit down and watch this movie for the pure sake of having a ...( read more)laugh.
  • November 25, 2009
    I SOO WANNA SEE THIS
  • September 20, 2008
    Not as bad as the usual briskly made Sci-Fi horror flick. This movie is fairly enjoyable, though only for quick entertainment.
  • June 7, 2008
    The Spiders that I unfortunately saw had different cover art...but it was still terrible.
  • April 10, 2008
    It wasnt as bad as i fought it would be some of the effects and acting werent that bad but in it some of the scenes look really fake and some of the acting wasent the best but overall it was an ok film.
  • March 14, 2008
    When i purchased this movie for 99p (in UK), i wasn't expect a great movie. Normeally these movies have bad effects, bad acting and a terrible script, but i was totally surprised about this film. 'Spiders' is an enjoyable film from start to finish. Naturally the story isn't origi...( read more)nal and there are a few cheesy lines, but overall the script had a nice twist. The acting was actually very good and quite professional for this film. The special effects wasn't the best, and seemed flawed in a few places, such as the spider changing sizes, but it's not the worse. There are a few scenes which look wonderful on film, particularly the spider flipping the car. Overall, this is a wonderful film to watch, but i should add something. If you want a shorter version of the film, then watch the trailer (well, at least the trailer on the DVD), as the trailer reveals everything, including the deaths. Enjoy
  • December 7, 2007
    One of the worst movies.. I've ever seen making the spiders look really bad.. I'm not a fan of any movie that make insects look so bad.. just because they're 'BUGS!"
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I usually avoid horror movies.
  • October 4, 2007
    Marci (Lana Parrilla), a college student working for a student newspaper about extraterrestrials and other supernatural phenomena, plus two male co-workers (Nick Swarts and Mark Phelan), head out into the California wilderness following a report of alien sightings. There they wit...( read more)ness a spaceship crash, see a scientist being shot by a corrupt military man, stow away on a truck that's loaded down with corpses (from the ship), and end up trapped in Majestic 12 headquarters; a military bunker/lab way underground (you need to take an elevator to get down there) where unorthodox experiments have been taking place. Some scientists have injected a tarantula with some alien DNA, said spider laid an egg inside one of the astronauts and said egg has hatched; resulting in a large, web-shooting spider monster with cell-regenerative properties that sinks its fangs into most of the supporting cast. The monster also grows bigger and bigger from one generation to the next, so at the finale we get a house-sized giant spider going on GODZILLA rampage on a college campus and through the city. It's up to Marci and a buff military dude (Josh Green), both in their matching white tank tops, to stop the monster. Not to spoil the ending, but our heroine ends up hanging out of a helicopter on a rope trying to shoot a missile out of a bazooka (that looks like it was made by Nerf) right into the monster's mouth. As one character says early on, "It's like a bad sci-fi movie!" Well, I've seen a little worse. The story and stock characters have been worn clichés for at least 40 years, the dialog is laughable ("We need bug repellent, not guns!"), the acting is bad to fair and the special effects are highly uneven (there's a pretty good animatronic-model spider by KNB and some lame, but scantly-used, computer fx at the end). There's also a sequel.

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