Review by kannibalcorpsegrinder

Traveling to examine a recently unearthed fossil, a professor and his assistants are forced down by a passing meteor shower where attempting to find shelter they come across an abandoned house that has giant mutated spiders running wild and must devise a plan to survive against the creatures.

There is a lot of good factors here as it's quite a fun genre effort. One of the better features here is the sense of fun here which, most of it the campy nature of the film. Few films are willing to pay homage to the creature features of the early 50s, opting to concentrate on the 70s films and leave the earlier ones alone that comes about not just with the loving tribute to the effects but also the storyline. It's refreshing when one comes along to have the spirit of those films quite competently from the easily explained and rendered plot to the blatant borrowing of other films to carry its storyline, the exploitative elements of nudity and violence as well as the well-timed comic relief where this just screams giant camp-fest. The other good part here is that its brief moments of greatness outside of the cheese do come across as being quite nice. The action here involving the creatures appear and attack the farmhouse with the escaping victim being a chilling attack scene offering this quite a lot to like The ending is the real highlight, where the film shifts gears and becomes the all-out camp classic that it was destined to be but wasn't, with loads of action, a couple of witty moments, and some nice moments strung together as the defensive tactics on display prove quite ingenious and the barricade-style confrontations employed being quite fun where it leads into the finale at the underground cave hideout for the creatures that's equally fun and chilling. It's the real highlight of the film, and alongside the fine nudity on display are what really work well for this one. As much as there was to like in the movie, there was also a couple of things hurting it. The main issue with this one is that the pacing is a big mess. The opening gets things off to a great start, but then it seriously drags things out until the very end and only sporadically showing signs of life. That means the middle section will really test most viewer's patience even before they're rewarded with a grand conclusion. The spiders come into the movie much too late, and their low kill total does them no favors. Speaking about the spiders, they are so cheesily rendered and depicted that hardly anyone would be scared of these creatures. They are beyond just looking bad and instead are laughable even if they invoke the tone wanted quite admirably much more than the cheap CGI which is usually presented here. These are what end up bringing this one down overall.

Rated R: Violence, Nudity and Language.