Submitted by AJ Garcia on Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 10:49PM
Title: Camel Spiders Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Brian Krause Director: Jay Andrews Studio: Anchor Bay Runtime: 84 minutes Release Date: March 27, 2012 Format: BLU-RAY Discs: 1 MPAA Rating: Rating: ( )Grade: C Did You Know? Camel Spiders are real, but much of their folklore isn't. Check out their story at Snopes.com At my house we have a lot of fun watching those b movies that everyone else in the world will probably think are horrible. It’s a time when we can yell at the television and no one is going to get mad. It’s a time when muting the film and ad-libbing dialogue is totally accepted (within reason). It’s a good time had by all. That being said I was a bit excited to see that I was getting Camel Spiders, the latest Roger Corman Presents B movie fodder. I had seen the trailer for this one and thought it might be cool, maybe a little Starship Troopers meets Area 51. So how was it? Unfortunately Camel Spiders has all the really horrible B movie acting, poorly looking special effects, and a storyline that was probably jotted down with a crayon but to put it plainly, it’s bad. You come to except this as a kind of badge of honor when watching a really good (bad) B movie. What ended up ruining the film is that it took itself way to seriously. There were flashes of comical cliché (see drinking teenagers frolicking off to their doom with sex on the brain) and a few funny one liners, but Camel Spiders doesn’t offer up enough moments where the film laughs at itself to really get that usual B movie flow going. Such a shame considering C. Thomas Howell being brought on board as a quirky small town sheriff and all the zaniness that could have come with it. Instead you get the promises of camp with green plastic looking helicopters that look like they fell out of a green army man collection and hundreds of flesh tearing CGI spiders against, well, just people with limitless ammo spewing guns who act as if their being paid to perform in a B movie without the usual campy humor that makes it okay to appear in a film this bad. PICTURE QUALITY: BONUS FEATURE: |
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