Camel Spiders

When I saw Roger Corman credited, I knew I was in for a fun ride of a cheesy movie, with terrible special effects, bad dialogue, nonsense and fun. And the initial scenes were set in Afghanistan with the military. Sure it was!At least they set up that the spiders (they weren’t really spiders as they have only six legs) would reproduce like crazy. How they got to the U.S. sort of is a homage to Arachnophobia. And if anything the characters said about the spiders was even close to being correct, that must have been a mistake.There are some real disconnects. A small group flees to a house, and breaks in. The house from the outside looks recent and well maintained. Inside a decrepit and abandoned mess, but with functioning electricity, and the doors had numbers on them. The larger group flees to a gypsum plant. In discussing how they will get out, the one soldier said “Ever see the army clean up a mess before?” when they were blamed for bringing the spiders to the U.S. Anyway, as they try to get to a truck, several go through underground tunnels, that supposedly were not used in a very long time. Yet the tunnels were well lit by row after row of Coleman lamps, nicely glowing. Initially, they have to hot wire the truck, but later they simply turn the key.But what all that does is make for an enjoyable movie, as the mistakes are so obvious and one cannot take anything seriously. And of course there is some overacting. This has all the charm of a fun B movie, and delivers.

A potentially fun premise, totally botched. American soldiers fight the Taliban (with the Vasquez Rocks doubling for Afghanistan), one is killed, and camel spiders ride home in his body. I didn't mind the cheap CGI. I was expecting that. And never mind that if camel spiders were as deadly, aggressive, and grew and reproduced as fast as they do in the movie there should be no one alive in Afghanistan (or the entire Middle East, for that matter). No, what kills this movie is the pacing. At about the halfway point, the plot comes to a screeching halt and everyone sits around talking. The last 10 minutes is just people shooting at spiders (their guns apparently have unlimited ammo, since they never run out and nobody ever reloads) and doing stupid things designed to get them killed. Also, for much of its length the movie follows two groups of characters: a bunch of escapees from a diner and four survivors of a college field trip. I kept waiting for these two plots to converge, but they never do. About 15 minutes from the end, the two girls in the latter group lock themselves in a car that doesn't run after the two boys have been killed. and that's the last we see of them. We don't see them get rescued, we don't see them die. The movie just forgets they exist. So that entire plot with the four college students was completely pointless, just filler to pad out the run time. I guess we're supposed to assume they died, but then why not actually show that, if they were just there to increase the run time anyway? This is bad writing and sloppy film-making. It doesn't help that there's not one interesting character in the whole cast. Brian Krause is his usual bland-as-milk self, and C. Thomas Howell (presumably on loan from the Asylum) just looks bored and phones it in. A shame, because this could have been a decent B-movie if anyone had cared enough to make it one.

Reality in the speed spiders reproduction and their growth rate only matters in documentaries.In a good scary monster movie, we throw reality out the door.3 hand-size camel spiders travel from Afghanistan to Arizona in a soldier's coffin and escape. Those 3 mysteriously multiply and triple in size and cover miles in minutes. They overrun a desert town and forest.No one is safe.Within an hour, they are man size. They jump on people and jab them with their fangs. Blood squirts everywhere.Before you know it, there are countless hundreds of camel spiders.A few people escape. Many people die.The army and civilians work to kill off all the camel spiders. They succeeded.But this is a monster movie...

I live for movies like this, I have quite a collection, I watch them repeatedly, I never tire of their sorry state; make no mistake this is a crappy movie! But I love it.Movies like this defy logic, they never make any sense, and that's beauty of them. They're earnest in their attempt to be accepted as real movies, not just toss-offs that never make it anywhere. They just want to be liked. Someone has to, might as well be me.I am not deluded, I know it's not particularly well written; it has no dialog worth quoting, half of the storyline disappeared without resolution, it's a mess. It's a notch short of inept. On the other hand, you've got Brian Krause trying to channel John Wayne and poor C. Thomas Howell as a good old boy, both trying desperately to rise above the debacle, and failing, but in trying they become a marvel to behold. Not many actors would lower their standards this much (I can't imagine the pay was all that good, the script alone must have cost a buck fifty, the CG a buck more). It takes a lot of nerve to produce garbage like this, I appreciate that.However, if you have a certain mindset that enjoys novelties like this, you might just love it too. Others beware.As for me, I'm glad I bought it, was ecstatic watching it, and no doubt about it, I'm keeping it.But just so we're clear...........it's crap.

Entertaining but not worth the price

havent had a chance to watch it but i am sure it will be full of cheesy goodness ... just how i like it !!

excellent and fast shipping

this was where the spiders got a ride and went back theygrew bigger and got some people along the wayvery enjoyable i think

Excrutiatingly amatuerish and a total waste of money, not seen the like of it before and would not waste my time or money.