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so very bad...

posted 12 years ago by patrickblind2
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Not "2 headed shark attack" bad but still pretty awful. So of course, I loved it :) Having grown up on horror movies, I respect the two heads of this monster, the really scary horror film with wonderful acting and real suspense... and this kind of dreck. Both hold special places in my heart. Half the fun of flicks like these are being outraged by the little things that you see in the movie... why in the hell is the mine ore factory apparently a storage facility for tons of old wooden and screen doors? Why when attacked by the spiders in said facility does the female military woman grab the kid and duck into a room with no friggin windows? You actually see her put her arm through the hole where glass would be and then call for help saying she was trapped in a storage closet... it has no windows in the frames! This is your safe room?! What the hell happened to the two girls in the car?

These movies bother me in one regard though, why not try a little harder? Really great scary movies have been made on shoestring budgets before... "REC" cost very little to do and is legendary! "Skyline" while not a great film had some damn fine CGI and it was made for a paltry 13 million. "The Dead" (African zombie film) was very simple but far superior to anything coming out over here or god help us, from bohl... and cost next to nothing made with actors never seen before. I am just saying to SYFY that although they can churn out these crapfests easily, why not try to make something with real teeth? Just give it a shot once and see how it feels.

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[–] curator99 12 years ago

As the director and co-writer of CAMEL SPIDERS, I felt it was obligatory to reply to Patrick's key question above: What happened to the two girls in the car? The answer is their final scene was cut by the distributor, Roger Corman's New Horizon Pictures.

I filmed a sequence showing the two girls trapped inside the vehicle, spiders lazily crawling all over the cemetary looking for a way inside the car. The girls are near hysterical, praying they will be found before the creepy-crawlies figure a way to get them. The camera pulls away from the car finally, leaving the two stranded ladies to ponder their fate.

For some stupid reason, the short 40 second scene was trimmed out of the picture. Hopefully it will be restored at some time in the future.

[–] patrickblind2 12 years ago

that would actually have had a little 'teeth'... sad that it was cut out.
Thanks.

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[–] pageboy 12 years ago

Jim, they could have left these 40 seconds in and cut the final scene at the drive-in, which seemed completely out of place and patched on. Of course we know there is going to be the obligatory last minute clip of the bug, monster, fish, creature surviving. It is a Roger Corman movie. Even with over 100 films to your credit, a director will never have "final cut" in a Corman production?

[–] Profondorosso75 12 years ago

Big fan here Jim, and an actor myself based here in NY. are you casting anything in the near future? I just happen to be available.

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[–] rabiddog67 9 years ago

For the love of all that is holy, stop making films.

[–] Woodyanders 9 years ago

I wanted to enjoy this one more, but it lacked the energy to me a fun piece of schlock. Instead it was strictly middling schlock. Moderately watchable at best, but overall pretty lackluster.

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