Ice Spiders (2007)

Ice spiders

Giant spider movie? what is more creepy? This version is a made for SCI-FI Channel production so i guess you know what your gonna get. this movie would have been better if the siders were as big as the box art but alas they were only a fraction of that size. This is your typical goverment project developes big spiders for secret project gone wrong tale. it has it's momments and ultimately it's not horrible just not very original or for that matter scary, famous Producer Steven J Cannell ( The Rockford Files ...NBC ect..) even has a bit role in this! Attactive young cast but spiders are just goofy CGI, I love bug monster movies but this is just average PG stuff. June 19, 2008

A decent giant bug movie

I actually wasted money renting this instead of watching it on the SciFi channel on Saturday night which, around my house, has become Bad SciFi Movie Night. The spiders are obviously CGI and occasionally appear to be from a different movie. Most of the actors are unknowns and this movie won't be aiding them in their efforts to get noticed by Spielberg. The recycled plot is that scientists have been studying spider silk (stronger than steel and flexible) and, for some reason, one scientist genetically engineered the spiders, which grew larger and larger and then escaped.

I like scifi when it's big and dumb (hey, I watched MST3K for nearly 10 years) but, honesly, I've seen better giant spider movies. March 31, 2008

Breed Them And They Will Get Out

Horror films and books have taught us a few simple truths. Don't disturb the ground anywhere that is named after the Devil (i.e. Hobb's End). Don't seek to quietly retire to a small town with a creepy name. Finally, if you breed giant bugs, vermin, whatever, they will get out no matter what your security precautions. So is it any surprise when a facility breeding giant killer spider has a containment problem? Now put the facility right near a popular ski resort and lunch is served.
Despite the wonderful cover art, these are not your Tarantula-type giant spiders. These are more like big dogs (of course one film claimed that is spiders were as big as housecats then humans would cease to exist so these are plenty big enough). Like with Eight-Legged Freaks, we get an assortment of arachnids plowing through the skiers, military, and anyone else who happens along. The critters are pure CGI and could have been better rendered but for the most part the effects work well-enough. Cast is o-kay with reasonable acting abilities. The one thing really missing was humor. Eight-Legged Freaks really works because the humor offsets the horror. Here the horror is only offset by the bright sunlight on the pure-white snow. Check it out. March 9, 2008

Cover is decieving

The first thing that comes to mind with this movie is that gigantic spiders like the ones on the cover do not appear. The spiders are, obviously, gigantic by spider standards but they are smaller than humans.

A few things happen when people begin to encounter the spiders and something is usually happening in terms of plot. It's not the repetitive "monster(s) appear, someone dies/disappears, monster(s) vanish, survivors have no idea what happened, repeat" formula seen in a lot of other movies.

I found it reasonably entertaining despite the inaccuracy of the front cover. February 18, 2008

government scientists and spiders just don't mix

What can be said about movies that deal with nature biting back? Writers should seriously think about ideas before spending five minutes to write a movie and hoping that viewers won't want to demand their money back. I'm a fan of science fiction. Arachnophobia...original, Tarantula...interesting, Eight Legged Freaks...hilarious. But mixing genetic research and spiders, just doesn't mix, unless you want to make another Spider-Man. This movie is in a long line of straight to DVD releases about the ramifications of playing God with nature, and fails miserably. The special effects of the movies about spiders back in the 50s and 60s were 10 times better as well as the acting. I laughed more when I should have jumped with fright. But then again, to some of my fellow sci-fi freaks, you may like it...if there is nothing funnier on. January 13, 2008

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