Arachnid (2001)

- written February 1, 2010









Written by Rick Romanowski, creator of Paradise of Horror

Summary: After a man is taken to a clinic with mysterious bites on him, a team is deployed to the jungle island to investigate the situation. However, they become stranded after the plane crashes and they soon find themselves fighting against giant spiders.           Overall: The cover had me fooled. I saw in the library and I though, this would be a good movie but instead, it was a horrible movie that deals, yet again, about genetically enhanced giant spiders. A formula that has been overused so many times it gets sickening. The beginning was a sight to see; it was intriguing and a good cliffhanger but the rest was horrible after that. Rather than being a horror it was an action-adventure dressed up as a horror. The acting was so-so and still up for debate but the rest was pretty poor. For some reason they way they voiced the dialogue and the way they acted made it seem like they were actually reading from a script rather than trying to act like it was natural dialogue. This movie had some scares and at times I jumped but the way the shots were developed and the way the previous shot was framed, it kind of foreshadowed the whole jump-out-of-your-seat thing. The special effects were awful and they were really corny!!           Comparison: Arachnophobia meets The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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