Spiders
- 2000
- Accord parental
- 1h 34min
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3,9/10
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong.A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong.A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
Leslie Zemeckis
- Emma
- (as Leslie Carter)
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The film Spiders does not intend to be mentioned in the same breath as films like Jaws and the Alien series. It has its tongue planted firmly in its cheek and as a result is hoping for the chance to rub shoulders with gems such as Piranha and Lake Placid. Whilst viewing the film you may tut and groan at some of the scenes with tacky dialogue and acting, it is only near the end when you realise that the producers have attempted to have as much fun as possible, at the expense of all those X-files/Dark Skies/Millennium style conspiracy shows, with a bit of monster movie digs in for good measure.
Nu Image pictures and Hollywood DVD was a combination that would send a shudder down the spine of any British movie fan old enough to remember the turn of the century and advent of DVDs. This isn't because of suspenseful horror movies, on the contrary because of awful ones.
One of their more admirable, a term I'm perhaps using loosely, cooperations was in unleashing Nu Image's game attempt at bringing back the Creature Feature. Spiders was the one I was immediately drawn to, being something of an arachnophobiac.
The movie follows college reporter Marci (Lana Parilla) who is treated as the joke of her paper due to her obsession with aliens and conspiracy theories. Following an encounter with 2 people who claim to be aliens, she drags her sidekicks Slick (Oliver Macready) and Jake (Nick Swarts) to 'Area 21' to try and find out some secrets. This coincides with a space shuttle crashing there following a freak meteor shower interrupting their experiments splicing alien dna into a funnel web spider.
As the wannabe news team look on, shadowy FBI agents led by Agent Grey (Mark Phelan) load the astronaut bodies into a wagon and destroy the shuttle, inadvertently stowing away, they find themselves in a secret underground lab where it transpires the experiments certainly weren't without end result - giant mutant spiders hell bend on breeding and getting bigger by the minute! Can Marci, joining forces with rogue Agent Murphy (Josh Green) stop the spiders before they escape the facility and reach humanity?
Making a B-Movie in the 2000s was a treacherous endeavour. You can play it completely straight and run the risk of being no fun, or wind up being too wink wink nudge nudge 'Aware' and just be eye-rolling (see: Sharknado) but Spiders actually manages to find that sweet spot where it knows it's a silly B movie, but instead of trying to show how smart and 'knowing' it is leans into all the tropes of that. It's not good by any metric, I mean the plot is littered with holes, characters act ridiculously and generally this could have been written in the 50s, but, in a weird way it's all the better for it. It starts off a dark warehouse B movie, it morphs into a giant monster movie, and never even contemplated trying to rationalise the change.
The acting is...well it is what it is. 15 year old me had the biggest crush on Lana Parilla in this. So forgive my weakness on her here. She's not pushing the boundaries but a perfectly capable lead for this time of picture. I was pleased to see she went on to a solid career. Green is workable as a supporting player, and the villainous Mark Phelan is...well he's the double of Willem Dafoe and basically playing a low budget version of him. I couldn't call it 'good' but it's certainly entertaining.
Being made in 2000, the movie landed right as the cusp of a big change in special effects. While it does use some terrible CGI, it's more for smaller, supporting things like explosions. There's some obligatory bad green screen, but most effects are practical, and while I'm not gonna attempt to call them very good, they are better than any cheap CGI spiders that would have been used had this been made even 5 years later. The model spiders are actually quite well done for rubber monsters on a budget, though their use isn't always great - one of the things that freaks me out about spiders is the way their legs move, and this makes the often made mistake of not remotely capturing this, when these walk they sort of animatronically 'March' instead of sinisterly crawling. There's also a scene when the smaller spider is jumping up at a window, and it's clearly swinging on a string.
End of the day, Spiders is what it is. It's not a good movie by any conventional metric, but it knows what it is, takes that ball and runs with it. It's silly, it's cheesy but it's all in good fun. It finishes with a 50s rock n roll song, just to add to its Drive-In feel.
One of their more admirable, a term I'm perhaps using loosely, cooperations was in unleashing Nu Image's game attempt at bringing back the Creature Feature. Spiders was the one I was immediately drawn to, being something of an arachnophobiac.
The movie follows college reporter Marci (Lana Parilla) who is treated as the joke of her paper due to her obsession with aliens and conspiracy theories. Following an encounter with 2 people who claim to be aliens, she drags her sidekicks Slick (Oliver Macready) and Jake (Nick Swarts) to 'Area 21' to try and find out some secrets. This coincides with a space shuttle crashing there following a freak meteor shower interrupting their experiments splicing alien dna into a funnel web spider.
As the wannabe news team look on, shadowy FBI agents led by Agent Grey (Mark Phelan) load the astronaut bodies into a wagon and destroy the shuttle, inadvertently stowing away, they find themselves in a secret underground lab where it transpires the experiments certainly weren't without end result - giant mutant spiders hell bend on breeding and getting bigger by the minute! Can Marci, joining forces with rogue Agent Murphy (Josh Green) stop the spiders before they escape the facility and reach humanity?
Making a B-Movie in the 2000s was a treacherous endeavour. You can play it completely straight and run the risk of being no fun, or wind up being too wink wink nudge nudge 'Aware' and just be eye-rolling (see: Sharknado) but Spiders actually manages to find that sweet spot where it knows it's a silly B movie, but instead of trying to show how smart and 'knowing' it is leans into all the tropes of that. It's not good by any metric, I mean the plot is littered with holes, characters act ridiculously and generally this could have been written in the 50s, but, in a weird way it's all the better for it. It starts off a dark warehouse B movie, it morphs into a giant monster movie, and never even contemplated trying to rationalise the change.
The acting is...well it is what it is. 15 year old me had the biggest crush on Lana Parilla in this. So forgive my weakness on her here. She's not pushing the boundaries but a perfectly capable lead for this time of picture. I was pleased to see she went on to a solid career. Green is workable as a supporting player, and the villainous Mark Phelan is...well he's the double of Willem Dafoe and basically playing a low budget version of him. I couldn't call it 'good' but it's certainly entertaining.
Being made in 2000, the movie landed right as the cusp of a big change in special effects. While it does use some terrible CGI, it's more for smaller, supporting things like explosions. There's some obligatory bad green screen, but most effects are practical, and while I'm not gonna attempt to call them very good, they are better than any cheap CGI spiders that would have been used had this been made even 5 years later. The model spiders are actually quite well done for rubber monsters on a budget, though their use isn't always great - one of the things that freaks me out about spiders is the way their legs move, and this makes the often made mistake of not remotely capturing this, when these walk they sort of animatronically 'March' instead of sinisterly crawling. There's also a scene when the smaller spider is jumping up at a window, and it's clearly swinging on a string.
End of the day, Spiders is what it is. It's not a good movie by any conventional metric, but it knows what it is, takes that ball and runs with it. It's silly, it's cheesy but it's all in good fun. It finishes with a 50s rock n roll song, just to add to its Drive-In feel.
Unrefreshing, unintentionally funny, trite, campy, but overall a fun no-brainer of a flick, Spiders is a B-movie that doesn't try to be anything else, and, thankfully, doesn't take itself seriously at all.
When a space shuttle testing mutant spiders gets knocked back into the Earth in a freak accident, three college students discover a government project designed to use spiders as warfare weaponry.
Part X-Files, part Aliens, part Men in Black, this amalgam of unoriginal writing, wafer-thin characters, unimpressive, pedestrian special effects, and unknown cast members actually are quite charming. The most fun scenes are when the spider runs amok outside the lab. At this stage in the film, it's easy to see that the production was given quite a hefty budget to work with, so why not use it to build sets instead of making high school classrooms pass for government labs? And how about a few extras to guard this super-secret facility?
Despite its plot-hole writing, less-than-believable visuals, and amazingly cheap looking first three-quarters, the chaotic ending and likeable young cast keep this otherwise unredeemable, derivative film pure camp pleasure.
When a space shuttle testing mutant spiders gets knocked back into the Earth in a freak accident, three college students discover a government project designed to use spiders as warfare weaponry.
Part X-Files, part Aliens, part Men in Black, this amalgam of unoriginal writing, wafer-thin characters, unimpressive, pedestrian special effects, and unknown cast members actually are quite charming. The most fun scenes are when the spider runs amok outside the lab. At this stage in the film, it's easy to see that the production was given quite a hefty budget to work with, so why not use it to build sets instead of making high school classrooms pass for government labs? And how about a few extras to guard this super-secret facility?
Despite its plot-hole writing, less-than-believable visuals, and amazingly cheap looking first three-quarters, the chaotic ending and likeable young cast keep this otherwise unredeemable, derivative film pure camp pleasure.
i popped this in without really knowing what i was getting into. well, i'm glad i had no expectations whatsoever. this is a truly awful film. i loved it! yes, i'm one of those freaks that like B films and classic 50's sci-fi flicks, and with spiders i got both. 10 years from now, this'll be at a midnight showing with tarantula. laced with nominal acting, kitchy lines, and "killer tomato" f/x, this little ditty was a laugh a minute. i just hope that the makers of this wonderful schlock were in on the joke.
Monster film plenty of thrills , chills , spectacular scenes , frenetic action and overwhelming spider attacks . It's an average spooky terror/monster movie . It is a blending of the monster movies of the 50s such as 'Tarantula' and modern American production plenty of C.G.I. The thrilling screenplay is a bit yawn-inspiring but nifty special effects will keep you from dozing off , with nice creatures designers, created by means of Animatronics and computer visual effects .
The actors are unknown , Parrilla ,Greene and others must be one of their first films . The FX are extraordinaries , the giant spiders are breathtaking, they have been made by means of computer generator visual effects and Animatronics. The technicians set up the creatures effects supervision were the prestigious Robert Kurtzman , Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger and they made it pretty well . Although nothing which haven't been seen before, this is not the picture to watch if you are scared of spiders , however the movie is quite entertaining . Utterly arachnophobia people must flee this film.
The production is quite good , it was realized by Nu Image now called Milennium , a production company formed by brothers Danny Lerner , Avi Lerner , and Boaz Davidson along with Trevor Short . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gary Jones with rather too much camera movement and there are also lots of low-angle shots of people hanging around waiting to get bitten by the carnivorous spider . Rating : Acceptable and passable.
Other movies about this Spider sub-genre are the followings : ¨Tarantula (1955)¨ by Jack Arnold with John Agar ; ¨Tarantula: the deadly cargo (1977)¨ with Claude Akins ; ¨Kingdom of spiders (77)¨ by John Budd Cardos with William Shatner , ¨Arachnophobia(1990)¨ by Frank Marshall with John Goodman ; ¨Arachnid¨ (2000) by Jack Sholder with Chris Potter , Jose Sancho , Neus Asensi and ¨Eight Legged Freaks¨ (2002) by Ellory Elkayem with Scarlett Johansson , Kari Wuhrer , and David Arquette
The actors are unknown , Parrilla ,Greene and others must be one of their first films . The FX are extraordinaries , the giant spiders are breathtaking, they have been made by means of computer generator visual effects and Animatronics. The technicians set up the creatures effects supervision were the prestigious Robert Kurtzman , Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger and they made it pretty well . Although nothing which haven't been seen before, this is not the picture to watch if you are scared of spiders , however the movie is quite entertaining . Utterly arachnophobia people must flee this film.
The production is quite good , it was realized by Nu Image now called Milennium , a production company formed by brothers Danny Lerner , Avi Lerner , and Boaz Davidson along with Trevor Short . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gary Jones with rather too much camera movement and there are also lots of low-angle shots of people hanging around waiting to get bitten by the carnivorous spider . Rating : Acceptable and passable.
Other movies about this Spider sub-genre are the followings : ¨Tarantula (1955)¨ by Jack Arnold with John Agar ; ¨Tarantula: the deadly cargo (1977)¨ with Claude Akins ; ¨Kingdom of spiders (77)¨ by John Budd Cardos with William Shatner , ¨Arachnophobia(1990)¨ by Frank Marshall with John Goodman ; ¨Arachnid¨ (2000) by Jack Sholder with Chris Potter , Jose Sancho , Neus Asensi and ¨Eight Legged Freaks¨ (2002) by Ellory Elkayem with Scarlett Johansson , Kari Wuhrer , and David Arquette
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesWhen the couple who believe themselves to be from another planet talk to one another, Loretta (played by Simona Williams, who was born in Denmark) speaks to Joe in Danish.
- GaffesWhen Marci escapes from the web in the elevator shaft, she closes the door on the spider chasing her. In that sequence, the door closes automatically; in other scenes, the door opens and closes manually.
- ConnexionsFeatured in 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days: Spiders (2000) (2019)
- Bandes originalesOK
Written and Performed by Holly Conlan
Published by Cloverbird Music (ASCAP)
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- 22 000 000 $US (estimé)
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