Earth Vs. The Spider

[NightFlight]

Hey all.  Just saw another one last night.( yeah, cable actually had something on that I wanted to check out.) Earth Vs. The Spider.  Definitely B grade.  A young securtity guard working for a biochemical plant stumbles upon an experimental drug that's supposed to make spiders even stronger and resilient than they already are.  He loves comics, especially Arachnid Man.  He hopes to one day be tough enough to beat up the bullies and stand up for himself.  Well, he injects himself with the drug, and over a period of days, he morphes into half spider, half man.  Not a bad flick, but too slow of a start for me.  I kept on thinking through the whole movie, "Come on already, turn into the spider and start killing people."  He does though.  Interestingly enough, Dan Ackroyd plays the part  of a detective investigating this spider-man.  Dan has really done it now.  Dan Ackroyd in a B movie? I think he's a good actor, which obviously doesn't  fit the B criteria.  I'm still scratching my head on this one.  Man, he must be desperate for parts nowadays.  And, to top it off, he got so fat he looks like Jaba the Hut!  I would rate this flick as a must see, for at the end, the results of the morphed spider-man are pretty gross.  Great special fx with this one.  Check it out.

[Dunners]

lol, th eoriginal was pretty bad IMO. Fun, brainless but bad.

[Andrew]

Out of all of these "name only" remakes, I think that "She-Creature" was probably the best.  And that was mostly on account of a tiny feeling of suspense, along with the attractive female (the mermaid) floating in water (naked).

The one that really hurt me was "Teenage Caveman."  Egads, can we please hire a writer who has a larger vocabulary than "F**k!" the whole time?  I know that it is a verb, noun, adjective and you name it, but hearing it every other sentence is pointless.  And the rest of the dialog was pretty much useless too.

[JohnL]

>Out of all of these "name only" remakes, I think that "She-Creature" was
>probably the best. And that was mostly on account of a tiny feeling of suspense,
>along with the attractive female (the mermaid) floating in water (naked).

That was the only one I thought was good as well.