{"id":10248,"date":"2007-06-15T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T09:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2007-06-15T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T09:01:19","slug":"ice-spiders-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/ice-spiders-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Spiders (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ice-Spider\"<\/a>I\u2019m not sure why, but the prospect of watching \u201cIce Spiders\u201d was intriguing to me. Perhaps it\u2019s because I just enjoy movies with giant monsters, or perhaps because many movies with giant spiders end up a barrel full of laughs, or maybe because I just enjoy cheesy monster movies. \u201cIce Spiders\u201d really doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously, and that\u2019s a great thing considering the ridiculous plot we\u2019re introduced to. But with all the horrible plot devices against it from minute one, \u201cIce Spiders\u201d comes out ahead.<\/p>\n

Hell, everything in this movie is utterly solid. I cared about the characters, I thought the spider attacks were creepy, and Patrick Muldoon is a very good hero who has to fight off these giant man eating arachnids on the icy slopes he works in. This sets the film up for another hokey \u201cJaws\u201d device about a ski resort that refuses to close down even in the face of these attacks, but hell, \u201cIce Spiders\u201d is entertaining enough to forgive it for that. Hell, there\u2019s even a group of roughneck gun toting commandoes led by \u201cMelrose Place\u201d actor Thomas Calabro, who are hunting the spiders and trying to stop them before they get to the ski resort. But you know as well as I do, that it\u2019s a losing battle. Writer Eric Miller sets up the pins to fall at the jaws of the spiders with obvious signs of who will win or lose, but the tension is thick enough to warrant the audience\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

Though not as goofy as one of my favorite giant spider flicks \u201cEight Legged Freaks,\u201d it\u2019s just as morbid and campy as the former, and hell, for a low budget film, the special effects are often very solid. Though Tak\u00e1cs slyly keeps the spiders in a distance and fuzzy, the effects create a realistic feel for the little predators, and I enjoyed watching these creatures hunting hapless skiers. \u201cIce Spiders\u201d is gladly a fun little monster flick, and one that does it all with a self aware smile, and I enjoyed it for that. And you have to love the way our primary antagonist dies in the climax. It\u2019s great! Yes, it\u2019s really cheesy, hokey, and campy, but it\u2019s also a great little B grade monster mash with killer spiders, power hungry military men, heroic skiers, and genuine splatter for the schlock fans out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not sure why, but the prospect of watching \u201cIce Spiders\u201d was intriguing to me. Perhaps it\u2019s because I just enjoy movies with giant monsters, or perhaps because many movies with giant spiders end up a barrel full of laughs, or maybe because I just enjoy cheesy monster movies. \u201cIce Spiders\u201d really doesn\u2019t take itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,219,412,491,906,966,1013,1087,1130],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-giant-monsters","tag-i","tag-science-fiction","tag-spiders","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}