Arachnicide

40 minutes of troops firing automatic weapons at spiders. It's too much even for an action film. Poor dialogue, bad dubbing. There are pretty good effect here, it's a pity that they are serving a bad film. Looks more like a videogame. At a certain point there are soldiers that are too much CGI. The films started out well but ended very bad.

Spiders were well worth the 50 minute wait to see! The dialogue was so well dubbed by the man with a thousand voices Mark Dodson that you thought every character was played by a different actor. The gunfight with the spiders well impeccably paced, where no shot was replayed 17 times and the seamless switching from CGI to real life was magnifico!!

ARACHNICIDE is an absolutely dreadful TV movie, made in Italy and dubbed into English for western release. It's about a squad of special forces soldiers who are sent to Albania and discover the results of a sinister experiment that has terrifying consequences for them all. It's one of those films where the DVD cover art is actually better than the film, this is so cheap and awful.

There's no characterisation here, not even much in the way of dialogue, just incessant low rent action. The opening sniper sequences do promise a little but the film quickly falls flat with endless dark and boring inaction. The CGI effects are appropriately awful, but the spiders don't appear until the second half and until then the film is near unwatchable. Then the spiders do finally show up, it just becomes very silly and largely pointless. I'm surprised the budget was as big as is listed because this looks like nothing more than a shoestring joke.

I know the title probably seems weird since that's usually half the appeal of Z grade movies but it's a real nose dive after the titular spiders appear in this movie.

It's got a lot of good points for a laugh:

• a dub where there are 7 people dubbing at least 20 characters so there's a very funny scene where a sniper and his spotter have the same voice.
• a confusing and silly plot that's still incredibly predictable.
• somehow every scene of the soldiers walking from more than 2m away has CGI soldiers.
• really embarrassing attempts at romance and flirting.

The bad point is solely the spiders. The second they come into this movie (admittedly about two thirds in) the movie just slows down. The graphics are all dark and muddy so you can't even laugh at the poor cgi, there's a scene of soldiers standing on a staircase shooting incoming spiders which lasts roughly 5-10 minutes straight where you see the same camera angles at least 20 times each. It's slow, poorly paced and just gets incredibly dull until the movie just suddenly ends after a little bit.

I'd still recommend it for a laugh or two but if you're in it for the "creature feature" part, you're barking up the wrong tree.

The music is too loud. The spiders come in too late. It is like they had only four voice actors to dub this to English. The four had to be ten major characters and several minor players. The voice sounds don't fit the mouth moves. The dubbing is not done with any emotion other than anger. Good title. Tarantula with John Agar is a much better movie.