In the Spider's Web
by Terry Winsor
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Actor: Cian Barry, Emma Catherwood, Lance Henriksen, Rajesh Latkar, Sohrab ArdeshirDirector: Terry Winsor
Brand: Genius
Writer: Gary Dauberman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 80601
Studio: Rhi Entertainment
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- Part of the "Maneater Film Series," In the Spider s Web is a thriller that is sure to make your skin crawl and the hairs on the back of your neck rise. When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider. Forced to seek the help of Dr. Lecorpus (3 time Golden Globe nominee Lance Henriksen, Aliens), an American physician living in a
DVD Reviews of In the Spider's Web
DVD Review: So much wasted potential.
Summary: 2 Stars
In the Spider's Web (Terry Winsor, 2007)
I have to admit, about halfway into this movie, I was really prepared to like it. Spiders make great movie monsters, and the cast weren't entirely shabby. Then we get to endless people-being-chased-by-spiders-down-tunnels. And the stupid commenced. I mean, come on. You're in spider-infested tunnels that are thick with spiderwebs. You're carrying a torch. How hard is it to come up with the right answer? Hard enough, it seems, that it takes square-jawed hero John (Cian Barry, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Breaking Benjamin vocalist Ben Burnley) over half an hour of movie time running around in those tunnels to do the thing that I'm sure 90% of the people watching this movie would have done before they went into the tunnels in the first place.
In any event, the story: John is on vacation with some friends. There's Gina (Emma Catherwood), who's completely smitten with John, and Stacy (Lisa Livingstone), who thinks it's incredibly stupid that Gina and John haven't gotten it on yet, since it's pretty obvious the feeling's mutual. Then there's Brian (Mike Rogers) and Phil (Michael Smiley). One of them's a guide, but which one of them it is seems to keep changing. I originally thought it was Phil, but then it seemed to be Brian, then... oh, you know. And there's Geraldine (Jane Perry), who seems to be a naturalist of some sort. (As you can tell by my somewhat befuddled commentary, character development was not a huge part of the script.) One night while they're in the jungle, Geraldine gets bitten by a spider, and the group are forced to find their way to the nearest village, where an American doctor, Lecorpus (Lance Henriksen), and his brother have taken up residence. Lecorpus does his thing, and while Geraldine recuperates, the group decides to do the one thing every group must do in a horror film: split up. Brilliant! (There's another main character-- actually, the best of the bunch, a local cop who provides wonderful comic relief-- but he is, unfortunately, uncredited. Whoever you were, you almost saved this movie!) Brian, Gina, and John head back to town to try and scare up some medical supplies for the doctor, while Stacy and Phil decide to go explore the ruins of an old temple, which is why the group was out in the jungle in the first place. Hint: if your friend was bitten by an oddly non-indigenous spider, and the big temple you came to explore is carved in the shape of a spider, you should probably leave. Quickly. This is, however, a horror film, and everyone in it, therefore, must be a total idiot.
But, like I said, I did originally have high hopes for this. Gary Dauberman's first script actually has some real characters in it; for all they're dumb, and their roles are inconsistent, they are pretty well-drawn (especially for a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie). Henriksen, whose previously brilliant career has been sidetracked by a string of godawful movies like this for about a decade, probably does the best acting I've seen from him since the criminally short-lived TV series Millennium. The others aren't too bad either, when the script isn't forcing them to be terminally idiotic. But, man, I just can't get past the stupid. You're surrounded by spiderwebs, and you're carrying a torch... **
Description of In the Spider's Web
Part of the "Maneater Film Series," In the Spider?s Web is a thriller that is sure to make your skin crawl and the hairs on the back of your neck rise. When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider. Forced to seek the help of Dr. Lecorpus (3 time Golden Globe nominee Lance Henriksen, Aliens), an American physician living in a local village, the group quickly discovers that the village has several secrets. As they learn of a venomous ritual in which a crawling army of spiders feasts on dead corpses, they unravel Dr. Lecorpus involvement in the ritual and his plans which are beyond anything any of them could have imagined. Now available for the first on DVD, with its dense jungles, marauding natives, mad scientists, screaming teens, and amassing arachnids, In the Spider?s Web is a gleefully entertaining creep-fest that?s as tough to shake loose as a tarantula in your hair.Bestsellers in DVD
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