This is one of the giant creature movies that I've never seen before, so I was hoping to watch it and have some fun. It follows the typical creature feature plot. A meteor crashes in a small town, causing lots of radioactive issues. Scientists come to investigate the site of the crash. Meanwhile, the people who own the land where the meteor crashes go looking and find a bunch of cattle butchered by some unknown creature. Soon they discover that the meteor caused giant radioactive spiders to ascend from the depths of the earth and start killing people. I hate it when that happens.
This movie starts off seeming like an early attempt at a spoof of giant creature movies. The characters almost seem like they're winking at us because they're in on the joke. It actually grated on my nerves a bit, but once the movie gets going and gets past its awkward beginning, it starts to be more fun.
The main characters are a married couple who own the farm where the meteor crashed, and the scientists who investigate the crash. The married couple are trapped in a loveless marriage, so they spend the movie sniping at each other, which gets annoying. The scientists are a middle aged man and woman who experience a love connection (which happens in a lot of these movies). I like them better than Mr. And Mrs. Angrypants at least.
This movie is really sleazy. Everyone is cheating on everyone else, a bunch of older men want to have sex with a local teenage girl, and there's a preacher who is holding a revival preaching about fire and brimstone, while I'm sitting here thinking if there ever was a town where people deserved to be eaten by giant spiders, this would be it. Luckily there's some cool gore, and the spiders are creepy, and pretty much all the skeezy people get eaten by spiders, so I managed to have a good time with this movie.
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