Arachnia

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Even Mike and the bots wouldn't know what to make of this.......2007-01-29

If you're looking for a movie that resembles the product of a really bad 1950's movie and a soft-core porn flick then this is the waste of celluoid for you! The only thing I've seen that even comes close to the level of unbelievable badness (and not in a good way; in a way that makes you want to track down and torture the producers) is Ice Queen. Not even Sci-Fi channel made-for-tv-movies are this god-awful.

Stinko-roonie!.......2007-01-19

This movie was really bad! It's about huge killer spiders. The plot is tired and cliche, the characters are the same and the special effects are low budget. It's so badly made, it looks like a student film or something. It's hard to believe that people still make movies this horrible. The only reason I gave it an extra star is because it's so cheesy that parts of it are funny. Unless you are a big fan of bad b-horror movies this is not worth watching. Even the lesbian scene between the two hot girls is not enough to save the movie and they can't even play believable bimbos! This is good for a laugh or a 'bad movie' party but other than that I doubt I could find a reason to watch it again. It's not bad enough to be a 'so bad it's good' movie and not good enough to become a cult classic. It's not great as a scary movie either because it's way too laughable and fake looking to scare anyone!

We Don't Have Drive-In Theaters Anymore.......2006-10-21

But, if we did, ARACHNIA would be the second or third movie on the screen.

Yes, it's pretty terrible. The stop-motion animation of the spiders was oddly refreshing in an age of CGI-crazy SFX.

I wish the movie had had more of a sense of humor about it. Not some lame SCARY MOVIE stuff, just some straight-faced winking like the bad drive-in horror movies I grew up on (such as PIRAHNA and the king daddy drive-in classic, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP). They weren't great movies by any means but they delivered good times: cheap scares, rubber monsters, nudity.

I've got to be honest: two of the three stars are for Alexxus Young, the "sci-fi diva" who has her own website. She looks great naked and I commend her for surviving a plane crash into mutant spider land and immediately wanting to strip and bathe. That's the kind of B-movie heroine that makes me stick around for the worst of movies.

I also liked the female lead, a beautiful African American girl who takes charge and completely avoids all stereotypes.

This is a bad movie but it would've been fun on a drive-in screen.
But we don't have drive-in theaters anymore.

At least the monsters aren't CGI.......2006-08-25

This movie barely gets three stars. The only redeemable things about it are that the main characters don't really include any people who are only in the movie for the sake of getting killed, and that the monsters are stopmotion instead of that abyssmal abomination known as CGI.

Absolutely Pathetic.......2006-08-17

This is the worst film I've ever had the misfortune of viewing, and this is coming from the guy who gave CHUPACABRA TERROR 5 stars. This film deserves -5 stars.

Some bad CGI meteors knock a plane full of brain-dead college students out of the sky and causes it to crashland in the middle of nowhere. The dimwits inside leave and wind up in a little shack belonging to a crazy old farmer.

Next thing you know, giant spiders start popping up every few minutes.

The stopmotion used for the spiders looks to have been done by a four-year-old. The script appears to have been written by a six-year-old. The actors have the talent of a deaf chimp, and put about as much energy into their roles as a sloth.

This film also rips-off many other better movies such as EVIL DEAD and ALIENS. The DVD transition is mediocore at best, but at least the special features include three trailers and a making-of featurette. But these aren't enough to make up for this beyond-horrible piece of cinematic trash.

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