Arachnoquake (2012 TV Movie)
1/10
Arachno-don't waste your time on this film-phobia
7 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
An earthquake opens up a chasm in New Orleans which unleashes dangerous mutated spiders.

The scariest thing about this film is the fact that you are, or you are going to watch this steaming pile of cack. This is one of the super low budget, no script, over the top CGI kind of film that the Sy-Fy channel is famous for, but after watching a lot of those kind of films I can confidently say this is one of the dumbest and worst I have seen. The biggest star in this is Edward Furlong, yes John Connor from "Terminator 2". It's nice to see he's done a lot with his life and the success of his terminator appearance...oh wait, no he hasn't! He hasn't had any acting lessons to improve himself (if he has they weren't worth it!) and by the look of him he's just sat around eating chips/crisps and drinking beer. Although saying that he still looks fairly young so maybe he uses good moisturizer. This is a fact which actually causes a problem in the film as he son looks just a few years younger than he does and therefor the family dynamic is unbelievable. FTR,Sarah Connor would be royally peed off with his terrible bus driving and inability to escape a pursuing foe! All of the acting is dumb and dire. The most emotive I got was hoping that somebody might just kill those annoying women on the boat and bus with their terrible over acting, emotionless crying and whining.

The best thing about this film, it's not on too long! OK, maybe the tongue in cheek sound effect used when one of the spider gets hit for a home-run by a baseball bat was the amusing... but the rest is not.

The pink CGI spiders are just awful, I expected they would look bad but they are a level of awful which becomes laughable. They can swim, they fly, they breathe fire, they have sonar, they have sensitive hearing, they are missile proof and bulletproof, they can do all the usual spider things too like making webs.... but they have no brains....yet still manage to show more intelligence than the idiots being portrayed on screen. The scale of the CGI spiders seems to vary too, in one shot they may appear small and then the very next shot shows that they are massive, casing point, check the queen spider out at the end.

You will have seen better films in your life, better films with a lot less money spent on them, with a cast that you've never heard of... I'd go as far as saying your son/daughter/nephew/niece could probably come up with something better and more plausible using smartphone camera. I have awarded this 1 out of 10 but that's actually pushing it, I'd have given this 0.25 out of 10 if it had of been possible. I am no stranger to low budget rubbish and this is worse than a lot of the films I've subjected myself too.
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