When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.
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In the Spider's Web is another example of late of a movie that I was not expecting much from, but got better than expected. There are some creepy close-ups, a good attempt at a sense of atmosphere, decent scenery and a good concept that apart from a lot of silliness actually does engage at least. Where In the Spider's Web is let down is in the rather fake-looking effects, some very cheesy scripting, clichéd and very underwritten characters, one too many moments where one has to suspend disbelief and acting that doesn't convey much emotion and when tried feels forced. And sadly, while a nice presence Lance Henrikseen is no exception.All in all, has its moments but to me In the Spider's Web is not a good movie let alone great. 4/10 Bethany Cox
It's not bad. There is a real plot, poisoning people to harvest their organs for the black market. Strangely, they never catch the *real* bad guys; the ones with the chopper and automatic weapons who are buying and hauling off the body parts. But there are other bad guys and bad things (spiders), who, the guys and a few of the spiders, get their comeuppance. We even have the "cavelry" riding to the rescue near the end.There are a couple of foxy young women, albeit a bit soiled. They get in some amount of trouble, but without much screaming and other nonsensical silliness. Some, but not a lot. The initially irascible blond turns out to be more than a bit of a heroine.There is a reasonable amount of tension. And there is a limited amount of gross stupidity on the part of the characters used to further the tension. The writers are clever enough to produce tension by having the bad guys do evil things, rather than having the good guys do stupid ones.I might have rated this flick a five or six, but I just have this thing about spiders -- yecch!
This film was OK for a film of its type if you do not expect to much. The Film has some good CGI of the Spiders and they look OK. Lance is a good choice for the doctor so he can do his made man thing again and is a good star name for the film. The rest of the cast are good for mostly young teen actors. The locations are good some island some ware but it looks good and makes a change from a lab or boring warehouse that you normally get in these kind of films. The Direction was OK if a bit slow moving. The sound is also good for Small movie and really helped the film along. The film is good for a small just don't expect to much from a small TV movie.
This is possibly the best TV sci-Fi/horror movie i have ever seen. The essence of the classic spider movies (kingdom of the spiders, arachnophobia e.t.c to name a few) is inside this creepy and chilling tale about a village thats attacked by the arachnids and a sinister doctor who has more than the usual liking to these eight legged killers. I saw this on Sky two the other night. Scared the hell out of me and gave me a case of the squirms. The spiders are real and mostly shown in close up detail just to make your skin crawl and they were terrifying. I screamed a couple of times when they did attack. Checked my bed several times to make sure none were in my room. Yes i know that sounds silly but this film does that to you. You see so many close-ups of spiders that you start to feel the paranoia that the characters face and you eyes start to play tricks on you. Another good thing about this film is that the spiders do descend from the ceiling or roof and drop on their victims. If the view of a big hairy and deadly tarantula doesn't scare you, then you must have steel for blood and be warned there are lots of spiders in this, and i mean lots. Crawling on walls, webs and even humans, its an arachnophobics nightmare. Towards the end some of the spiders become CGI and that does slightly kill the mood but then you come face to face with a real one and the fear returns.Lance Henriksen is good for the role of the Doctor as the other cast work well together with the spiders, making you believe in the terror that they are facing. The director work this clever web of horror round you and instills the real fear that the characters have faced and some have not lived from.All in all a good skin crawling horror movie that i'd love to see again and hope that someone releases it on DVD.