Giant Spider, The

USA • 2013 • 71m •

• Directed by: Christopher R. Mihm. • Starring: Shannon McDonough, Daniel Sjerven, Billie Jo Konze, Michael Cook, James Norgard, Mark Haider, Ware Carlton-Ford, Aaron Courteau, Elliott Mihm, Alice Mihm, Stephanie Mihm, Cherie Gallinati, Kira Pontiff..

When radiation left behind by atomic weapons testing creates a gigantic killer mutant arachnid, it's up to a trio of scientists, an Army general, and a newspaper reporter and his fiancée to figure out how to stop the hungry beast from devouring the entire county in writer/director Christopher R. Mihm's ode to the giant bug films of yesteryear!

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Remember all those unfunny people you've met in your lifetime who genuinely thought they were funny even though no one else did and were never even aware of it? Well, they apparently got together and made this movie with just lousy dialogue and characterizations, plus a magnified tarantula superimposed in scenes and an obviously fake spider head for close-ups. I thought the 1977 'The Crater Lake Monster' was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen but this movie effortlessly edged ahead of that one. They simply try to hard to parody the subject and the 50s and it just doesn't work, unless of course their intent was to make as horrible a movie as the ones they're referencing.

Save your brain cells and give this one a huge pass - the 'star' rating that is 6+ is obviously manipulated and is not reflective of the quality of this movie - you surely have the film makers, their friends and their relatives to thank for that slanted score.

Review by romneymeredith from the Internet Movie Database.

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