A truly extraordinary science fiction/horror film that manages to be an intelligent depiction of perverted science as well as a unique tale of survival. From the very initial scenes, there is an overwhelming sense of terror as a couple stranded at sea are picked up by a mysterious freighter. Immediately treated by the ship's doctor, the couple immediately can tell there is something seriously wrong. The doctor is clearly mad and the experiments he's conducting are beyond all imagination. Richard Moll is stunning in the role of the doctor and it's one of his best roles in years. As the horror unfolds within the confines of a ship at sea, the claustrophobic environment is almost unendurable and the intensity of the thrills simply become too much to bear. This is a terrific film of this type and one of the finest Killer Spider motion pictures ever made.

After watching this, I'm left wondering if the prequel is infinitely better or worse! I'd say the only viewable aspect of the movie is the spider woman, oops I mean Stephanie Niznik ;) She was looking hot when either attacking the ugly, big spiders or running away from them. She acts well too. Even the gigantic spiders look real, ONLY in close-up shots! Generally speaking, the visual effects were tacky, and 99.99% of the performances were dud. Just Stephanie Niznik and our evil doctor(essayed by Richard Moll) brought some life to this otherwise tarantula-ic disaster! Verdict: Wish Stephanie was half spider, half woman in the flick. That could have helped the collections :-)

let's see now... Spiders 2... ummm.... the special effects are just silly..... the dialogue is wooden, weird, and hard to take seriously... the mad scientist acts and talks and looks like a Saturday morning cartoon character... the story has lots of plot and logic loopholes, verging on the ridiculous....the story is predictable and is very very very slow moving -- we can all see where it's going, so why can't the characters?actually you could save this movie by taking out virtually all of the dialogue -- not a word of it is necessary --- then taking out redundant and unnecessary scenes -- and bringing in a better cinematographer with more knowledge about dramatic lighting. It would work okay as a silent movie, about ten or fifteen minutes long.

This movie was terrible, but in a good way. It's bad like a Mystery Science 3000 movie... If you want a bad type of bad where you're expecting something kind of good, see Sideways. But guess what? Spiders II is hilarious!!! Here's some of my favorite quotes: "First cancer... Now this??" "*snickers*" "Don't you understand what the word 'flammable' means???" And those are just a couple nuggets. There's even more to see in this stinker, and they're good'uns!! If you feel like watching a movie just to make fun of it, buy this. If you're too much of a tightwad to enjoy something this bad, don't buy it. I guess I'm not really a tightwad and that's why I liked this movie.