Webs
Giant spider
attacks with spider zombie army... will Earth survive?
Most
people will think this movie is just plain dumb, but I have
a soft spot in my heart for movies like this, which seem to
have been built around stuff the filmmakers found lying
around in a basement. "Oh, look, a box of fake fang teeth
and giant spider hands! Let's make a movie!"
The result in the case of "Webs" is an alternate-universe,
giant bug, zombie movie that is better than some, worse
than others.
The steadfast professionalism of actors in films of this
kind never ceases to amaze me; I think it’s one of
the world’s special things, when an actor can summon
up a requisite seriousness when being attacked by
slobbering spider zombies that, viewed objectively, are
really pretty silly looking, resembling nothing so much but
what they actually are: humans overacting with halloween
teeth and spider claw hands.
The story is rather predictable: The portal jumping humans
have happened to leap into crunch time for the surviving
humans of the arachnid dimension; If they'd jumped a day
later, there would be no story to tell. In skirmish after
skirmish, the surviving humans fight with ever-diminishing
returns, will the lead actor and actress join the ranks of
spider food?
The CGI Queen spider is better than expected for a film
like this, but the film itself is rather standard fare. For
lovers of the genre only.