Daniel Quinn, Dimiter Kuzov, Greg Cromer, Peter Antonov, Richard Moll ...( see more  see more... ) , Stephanie Niznik

Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough treatment and inj...( read more  read more... )ections given by ship's doctor Gerbac which make the strong man faint, and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broke as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around and finds human bodies on meat hooks, but even Alex thinks he's just hallucinating. Alas while sane Jason is restrained for his 'paranoia', the real madmen are the doc's genetic experiment outfit, who abuse their human captives as live incubators for a giant spider's eggs...

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R, 96 min.

Directed by: Sam Firstenberg

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002

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  • November 8, 2009
    Definitely hokey, and was expecting that. Not really any worse than some of those 1950's flicks of a similar nature. Although the special effects are not good, they aren't awful either. The acting was average and better than I was expecting.
  • May 22, 2008
    I did not like this too much, but what else to do on rainy day.
  • April 23, 2008
    very much cinematographic errors, the film needed something.
    however, the film story is good and the film is very reasonable.

    A bit dirty, it stinks!
  • March 24, 2008
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • October 4, 2007
    Fair, watchable sequel takes place entirely at sea. Some pirates invade a pleasure ship and beat, tie up and abduct the people on board before blowing up the ship. The next day, a young couple; blonde photographer Alexandra (Stephanie Niznik) and her dimpled Golden Boy husband Ja...( read more)son (Greg Cromer), stumble onto the debris, find a corpse and then end up in the middle of a bad storm that sinks their boat. Jason is mildly injured, but they're picked up by another cargo vessel headed for New Guinea. On board is a seemingly hospitable captain (Daniel Quinn) who has the hots for Alex, a ranting doctor (Richard "Bull" Moll), who looks them over and calls them "perfect specimens" and a bunch of rough-looking Russian crew members, who turn out to be the pirates from the beginning. Jason begins snooping around the ship and realizes something bad is going on when he uncovers a cooler full of frozen cadavers. But the antibiotics he has been given for his injured neck are actually drugs to incapacitate him so he can be used to incubate a spider. Other victims are kept in incubation chambers until the implanted eggs hatch. It's up to Alex to fend off the bad guys, elude the mutant spiders (which are eventually set free when the power is turned off) and find the antidote for her husband.

    Though Alex is a little annoyingly slow to catch on at first, it is her character and the spirited performance by Niznik in the role that make this movie at least tolerable. She's a tiny blonde, but she's tough; responding to an aggressive sexual come-on by beating the crap out of the guy, kicking crotches, taking down two burly pirates on an elevator and using a mad-made blowtorch and spear to kill off the spiders, while dragging her injured hubby along for the ride. It may be Sigourney Weaver-lite in this context (right down to the tank top), but Niznik anchors the uneven film well through the finale. The other actors, especially bland, square-jawed Cromer and Moll, who seems to be playing the syringe-wielding mad doctor (who is looking to create a disease-free human race) strictly for camp value, don't fair near as well. I also can't explain why the spiders sound just like elephants, but what the hell. Special effects (again a mix of animatronics and CGI) are OK.
  • August 28, 2007
    Not as good as spiders, ha ha, I guess thats not saying much. Who cares its got Bull in it.
  • June 25, 2007
    a case of the so bad it's funny
  • June 7, 2007
    Dont like spiders. But the movie is nice.
  • April 19, 2007
    Christ! the first was bad enough! trust me

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