‘They thought Melrose Place had vicious backbiting. They haven’t seen anything yet.’
Ice Spiders is a 2007 American made-for-television science-fiction horror film directed by Tibor Takács (Blowback; Spiders 3D; Mega Snake; Mosquito Man; Killer Rats; I, Madman; The Gate) from a screenplay written by Eric Miller (Night Skies; Swamp Shark).
The movie stars Patrick Muldoon (Stigmata; Bad Karma; Little Dead Rotting Hood), Vanessa Williams (Candyman), Thomas Calabro, David Millbern (The Slumber Party Massacre; Chupacabra Terror; Hush Up Sweet Charlotte), Noah Bastian, Carleigh King, Stephen J. Cannell, Matt Whittaker, Clayton Taylor, Charles Halford, Steve Bilich, Kiernan Ryan Daley, Cory McMillan, Connie Young, Marc Raymond.
Review:
You’d think Ice Spiders, a movie about genetically-supersized spiders skittering across a popular ski mountain, eating people and slicing them in half, would be cool. But like putting your face in a microwave oven, it only sounds cool.
A top-secret government lab so secret, they had to make its scientists pinky swear not to tell anyone that they gene-spliced DNA from a prehistoric arachnid into several marketable brands of today spiders and force-fed them steroids and cupcakes.
They wanted to harvest the spider’s webbing for new coats that bullets couldn’t perforate. And to pet them with gloves on. They do this at a lab high up in the snow-covered mountains because spiders don’t groove on the cold, and therefore would – in theory – be contained if one or more should get out.
But these are honkingly big spiders, the size of go-karts with eight-wheels – and the cold just makes ’em hungrier. With the grocery store all out of Purina Ice Spider Chow™, these bugs get to buggin’ and go after skiers like they were Gore-tex™ flavoured Slim Jims™.
Throw in a limp bacon back story involving a washed-up ski instructor (who used to be a marine for twelve years), an Olympic Ski Team up on the mountain to do some two-legged sliding, the obligatory mad scientist and some ‘tough’ military guys who run around in the ice-cold snow in just T-shirts, and you have a sci-fi movie formula so tiresome, your TV will actually fall asleep while showing it.
Jeff Gilbert, guest reviewer via Drinkin’ & Drive-In
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“The story by Eric Miller (Night Skies, 2007) is as predictable as they get, and strictly by the numbers. What makes the whole watching experience a bit more endurable is the fact that there is quite a bloodbath, as we’re talkin’ R-rated material here.” Christos Mouroukis, Monster! Issue 23
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“It has lots of fun moments but also has that “been there, seen that” feel to it. So I recommend this one to people who really hate spiders. They will definitely creep you out and get under your skin.” Anything Horror
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Related:
Arachnophobia: Spiders on the Screen – article
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