October Challenge Day 4:
Saints preserve us - this is not a good film, but sometimes you need a little bit of that dirty, rotten, no good, made-for-TV good stuff.
And I'm also going to watch pretty much anything Lance Henriksen is in, so - let me introduce you to:
It's spider season in Seattle right now - a well recognized, and some could argue, official season if you live in the area. There's a few spiders that make a very big appearance at this time, but it's the Giant House Spider that will taken even a hardened lifer of the area back a bit.
I shared on Facebook with friends how I woke up one morning several years ago with one of these spiders, dead, in MY MOUTH! Everyone was horrified and friends outside of Seattle were fascinated by tales of these creatures. Just the other night, one of these giant but harmless monsters ran from beneath my chair, in-between my feet, and TOP SPEED raced across the apartment. Not even my cats could cope with what they were seeing.
...it's still here, in the apartment somewhere...
So I thought it would be a bit of fun to watch some fresh trashness in celebration of our monster creatures that new comers are never warned about before arrival.
Like I said earlier, this film is not good. The first few minutes will make that clear right away. Here we have a collection of young world travelers hiking through a jungle. There's no back story, there is no lead up. We're just suddenly in the jungle with strangers with strange accents for no clear reason.
Someone gets a spider bite and that leads the splintered group to either go to a legendary remote village or to the not legendary remote village. Both groups are facked.
Enter bizarre doctor and "priest" from the legendary village and the somewhat bumbling police force from the not legendary village. Together they battle a spider cult, all fighting for survival.
I know I'm not really selling this one but fans of these types of films understand how fun they honestly can be. This one is no exception. Get ready to be covered in some spiders though...
Best watched while day drinking or have on in the background, pairs with beers and rotting fruit in an unusually humid area.
I watched this film on Paramount+ (formally CBS All Access), or use the Find It! Watch It! links on Horror Habit's side bar to see where else you can find this very much mid 2000s CGIed film.
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