Of the modern (after two thousandth) thrash work of director Brett Piper (Brett Piper), this film is more applicable to a wide range of viewers than some unthinkable intentionally absurd stories that founded a number of his author's works. Only, of course, you need to understand that the ball is ruled by total independence, in other words - a low-low budget, obliging to take on the screen frankly plasticine monsters.
Of course, there reigns the primitivism of the script about the struggle of a group of people with giant insects, and simple dialogues with standardized characters in which you can see in advance their survivability in the course of timekeeping, and naive blunders, adding a lot. For example, the plot itself shows a plane in which a professor flew with an assistant and several students (incredibly stupid and why they are needed - it is unclear) to paleontological excavations, meteor showers began to fall in the sky, they crash in the middle of the wilderness, and then, settling in a remote house, will defend themselves from spider monsters. Where did they come from – the director-screenwriter does not bother to explain too much: monsters have always lived underground, just a fallen meteorite dug one of their tunnels, and let’s mess around.
Against the background of such a genre cliché, just like a "bearded" anecdote, a good moment in the tape comes from a clearly calibrated rhythm, the absence of which often spoiled some of the films of the above-mentioned author, and in fact in the prism of his work this film is considered, otherwise it immediately relates to the insufferably tasteless thrash of worn-out themes, giving noticeable semi-amateurate notes. The plot conducts a little acquaintance with the backbone of the heroes, without complicating their characters with unnecessary dramas of relationships, in order to soon provide the action itself (for which, in fact, such a simple horror story is seen), when good scenes are launched using chainsaws, dynamite, homemade bombs, and shootouts with insects surrounding the house. The scenery is not limited to the room, including a forest with underground labyrinths of burrows. Such a prioritization is pleasing, especially if we refer to the director’s previous film a year earlier, “Bloodthirsty Beasts” / “Psychocyclops”, where the prologue was given about fifty minutes. Everything here is much more lively with the dynamics.
Speaking of ridiculous special effects, the spiders themselves, alternately made of plasticine and rubber layouts, are necessarily at the forefront. The visual series laughs, of course, looking like a complete absurdity, especially for modern times, only, there is something in this all, some elusive charm of the past era of film fiction of the 50s, where similar techniques of different papier-mache were also used. Connoisseurs of the current rich spectacle supplied by blockbusters will definitely not bring a drop of pleasure, but only complete disappointment, when fans of the “dusty”, but cute (even if overly naive) will be more supportive. In addition, it is simply respectful all this time-lapse shooting of monsters with legs, painstakingly done by the director for the sake of their “revival” on the screen among real actors, however, who are not professionals, but amateurs with an effort to portray unpretentious emotions. Computer graphics are minimal, it is largely closed in showing the painted aircraft and green flashes of meteor shower.
As a result, first and foremost, the film is the lowest-budget creep about giant spiders, which on all counts loses to the famous spectacular brother “Eight Legged Freaks” (Eight Legged Freaks), and even the frank b-movie “Spiders” (Spiders), so it is intended exclusively for fans of thrash fiction, made with semi-amatellant opportunities and the same efforts. He only withstands some criticism in the cohort of the list of works of his author, successfully standing out for the lack of sagging scenes. It also has the ability to laugh, but not scanty jokes, but visualization, where the characters loudly yell or throw dynamite at superimposed over the frame sculpted from plasticine monsters. And if you look at a tiny budget consisting of bare enthusiasm, then it is quite a desire to say “thank you” to people who managed to create an entertaining production out of nothing.
6 out of 10