Paul Magne Haakonsen Can't believe it has been about 10 or 11 years since first time I watched this movie. I decided to give it another go because I do like spider movies, and "Arachnid" is actually good enough entertainment, considering it is from 2001.The story is straight forward, if not quite simplistic, actually. Some kind of alien spacecraft crashed with a stealth-craft somewhere over the Guam jungle, unleashing some type of alien insectoid creature. A group of people venture into the jungle and stumble upon mutated spiders and insectoid creatures, creatures that stalk them and prey on their lives. So it becomes a matter of survival; man against mutated spiders.Sure the storyline is a little bit far fetched, but hey, we are dealing with huge, mutated space insects here, isn't that warning symbol number one? I found the story to be alright though, easy to follow and drops you right into the action immediately.The effects in "Arachnid" were actually quite alright. But of course, this is a Brian Yuzna movie, and he is known for his great creature features and monstrous designs. So even for a 2001 movie, "Arachnid" has creatures that look quite nice. Lots of details and fine touches, which I immensely enjoyed.The acting was adequate, although the characters were quite superficial and stereotypical. Most of them seemed to be devoid of any emotion or empathy, as people were dying left and right, and no one seemed to really be shaken or disturbed by that fact.Sure, there are better spider movies available, but "Arachnid" wasn't bad, and it is well worth a watch if you have nothing better to do.

Chase_Witherspoon Expedition to a remote island find themselves stranded after a plane crash, and at the mercy of an army of voracious, giant spiders. Pilot (Alex Reid) has taken the job to search for her missing brother, whose naval jet was last reported in the vicinity of the island, while mercenary (Chris Potter) and his crew (Bear and Lightfoot) tries to remain professional in spite of the chaos.Quirky spider specialist (Isyanov) causes endless grief, as he disappears at every given opportunity, searching for specimens with which to experiment; his final experiment finds him cocooned in a tightly woven spider-web. Thereafter the film is a roller-coaster, and it's mostly downhill, very quickly. Survivors take refuge in a dilapidated WWII shelter while the giant spiders terrorise them like demons on stilts, something akin to "War of the Worlds". Naturally, Reid discovers the fate of her naval pilot brother, and while the couple reunite with the indestructible Bear (Allen), their survival remains tenuous.Horrid special effects and tense action sequences provides the glue that binds this formula picture together. Some light wit and a relaxed performance by Potter offer glimmers of hope, and the film is nothing if at least watchable, although the awkward English translation (most of the characters are obviously of Latin origin, so why pretend to be North Americans?) and absence of any 'name' actors (Potter is by no means a household name) might distance the average viewer.

dilapidated_mind Arachnid is the sort of movie you stumble upon at 1am surfing the televisial graveyard slot looking for a movie that's so bad it's good. And once it ensnares you in it's clustered, tepid badly strung plot thread it injects you with mind numbing, paralysing venomPlot:Pilot crash lands on island. He spots an alien. Alien is killed by squiggly monder. Squiggly monster proceeds to attack him. Over 2 months pass. Some research team shows up to research into why the people are being attacked by spiders. They believe a new strain on spiders is on the island. Spiders eat the crew. One of the spiders is crew leaders father. Spiders are alien spiders...If all this sounds messy to the point of damaging your immersion do not worry - The directors camera/microphone can be seen falling clearly into plain sightshortly after the crew lang anyway and it will continue to do so throughout the film.If the script and directing are this lousy what a bad movie really needs is some truly horrific cheesy acting to back it Sadly all it can offer is mere below average underacting throughout. The numerous times characters in this film are unconcerned that a member of their team is dying maked you wonder if the entier cast is collectivly made up on sociopaths and serial killers. All of this would be bad enough. But wait, there's more, finally we get to the main featue - the spider.I would advise you unlucky folks who have stayed the course to this point in the movie to have shots ready if you want to find any hope of appreciating this movie for the special effects. It is the most average, uninspired, run of the mill, dull, stock, witless example of cheap, flimsy cgi I have witnessed in a long time. It almost offers the torch to every other bad element in the movie and let's them shine by comparison. Almost. Sadly, the worst thing about this movie, as stated earlier, is that it is so mindnumbingly below average it doesn't even register at a level of bad that can be considered funny. And that really is bad.Nothing here works or makes sense of any kind. When the creature is shot all the bullets bounce off with no effect whatsoever. Later, when the movie is nearing the close, the lead picks up a gun and before you can say curtains squeezes the trigger and gaining a critical hit with every last bullet entering producing spider gunk.The redeeming factor? There isn't one.

Charlie Pearson This is the worst film that I have ever seen.I rented this film, thinking it would be a laughable 'B' movie. I was wrong. The video shop where I rented it from were wrong as well (they had given it the 5 star treatment on the case). How this got released I will never know. The acting was horrendous, the script was laughable, and the special effects, well the less said about them the better.I honestly would not recommend this to any-one, not even my worst enemy. Please do not even contemplate watching this. Your life will be better off without it.