This was a movie that didn't really take itself too seriously and was relatively low budget (or so I read in an interview). It seemed along the lines of Starship Troopers with spiders in that it was pretty tounge-in-cheek. A delivery truck...
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This was a movie that didn't really take itself too seriously and was relatively low budget (or so I read in an interview). It seemed along the lines of Starship Troopers with spiders in that it was pretty tounge-in-cheek. A delivery truck carrying a load of toxic waste (isn't it always toxic waste) gets dumped when a sleepy driver swerves to avoid hitting a bunny rabbit in the road (yes, a rabbit). As usual, a barrel of the stuff falls in the swamp causing all of the spiders to grow exponentially. The local isolated, weird guy who collects spiders notices this and gets a few specimans for himself. Obviously, the spiders break free, kill the weird guy, continue growing, and cause much havoc in the city. The movie's subtly non-serious take on the well-used plot is where most of the appeal of this movie lies. The local radio personality is funny as well, as he is an extremely suspicious conspiracy theorist who has watched way too many episodes of The X-Files. He is convinced that the spiders are in fact aliens and part of a government plot of some kind. The film does sport some pretty good looking effects, however, things like the jumping spiders remind you of the purpose of this movie. While not a great movie by any means, it is a good, cheap, rental for a fun, popcorn-eating Saturday night.