Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I enjoyed DNA (1997) a lot more than this! Let's face it: we have Eight legged freaks, Arachnophobia and even Ice Spiders, so we've seen good fun, good movies and cheesy fun also, but this one is beyond bad and terrible. Sorry to say, I did expect to enjoy it yet I couldn't wait for it to end. Arachnid is one bad executed movie, with some OK actors, good settings, bad dialogue and horrible effects. The spider from IT looked better than what I've seen here. Not recommended to anyone, not even monsters fan!Cheers!

Arachnid starts in Guam where a man from a nearby island has been taken seriously ill, he is covered in strange bite marks & eventually dies. Concerned about his death Dr. Samuel Leon (José Sancho) organises an expedition to the man's native island to try & discover the cause of his illness & death, American soldier Valentine (Chris Potter) is called in to lead the team while local pilot Lauren Mercer (Alex Reid) is hired to fly the team to the island. Approaching the island & the small plane loses power & Mercer barely manages to land it, the team are now stuck on the island with the plane out of action & decide to carry on with their research since they are there anyway. The team soon learn that a giant flesh eating alien mutated Spider is loose in the jungle & is trying to breed, the team must must stop it before the Spider or it's offspring reach the mainland & infect the entire Earth...This Spanish production was directed by Jack Sholder & is a fairly lacklustre 'Creature Feature' that has little to recommend it, Arachnid is the sort of low budget tripe that turns up on the Sy Fy Channel all the time. Spiders eh? Almost everyone hates them & more importantly are scared of them so the usually humble Spider is a good subject for a typical giant insect 'Creature Feature' since people don't like them to begin with. The cinematic wasteland is littered with giant/killer Spider films, from the big budget Arachnophobia (1990) to Arachnia (2003) & from the classic Tarantula (1955) to the not so classic but still fun Spiders (2000) & it's sequel Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001) & the more recent big budget horror comedy Eight Legged Freaks (2002) which I personally really like with countless other obscure Spider inspired horror flicks between like Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) & Ice Spiders (2007) to name but two. Here with Arachnid the script offers nothing particularly new, memorable or stimulating as a giant alien mutated Spider threatens to destroy mankind & the efforts of the clichéd cast of character's to stop it. Arachnid is pretty poor for the majority of it's duration, at almost 90 odd minutes it feels longer although to be fair the pace isn't too bad but the premise is totally wasted with a lack of gore or action & some incredibly badly shot & edited sequences that were meant to be either scary or exciting but just end up annoying. The forgettable script feels like a mix of Predator (1987) & Arachnophobia as a bunch of paper thin character's are bumped of by mutant alien Spiders in a dense South American jungle, unfortunately it sounds a lot better than it actually is. Predictable with a loose plot that never ties things together that well I would find it hard to recommend Arachnid to anyone other than die hard creature feature fans.Arachnid isn't much to look at either, the jungle location is wasted with flat & boring photography that doesn't even try to take advantage of the naturally lush locations. The various special effects scenes are poorly shot & edited which sometimes makes it difficult to follow what's going on, there's no sense of scale & it's difficult to know where people or things are in relation to each other. It's far too dark too often, there's a lack of gore with only some blood coughing offering up some of the red stuff. There's a cool dream sequence in which a character's face distorts & splits open as the alien Spider's head bursts through but it's just a dream & a little pointless. The special effects are alright, there's no great usage of CGI computer effects & the alien Spider is mainly a real life sized rather stiff moving puppet but the makers are just ignoring one bad special effect & using another equally bad special effect in instead.With a supposed budget of about $570,000 this was really low budget & it show's with small scale effects & little in the way of ambition or imagination. Filmed in Barcelona in Spain & in Mexico. The acting isn't anything to shout about, minor British celebrity Alex Reid is terrible.Arachnid is a pretty poor creature feature, how can a film about giant mutated alien Spiders be bad? Arachnid is how. This could have been quite a fun little film, as it is Arachnid is forgettable Sy Fy Channel fare that has little going for it.

A plane driven by a pilot(Alex Reid) and transporting ex-marines(Chris Potter, Luis Lorenzo), a scientist(Ravil Isyanov) and doctors(Jose Sancho, Neus Asensi) crashes on a tropical island that contains a lethal carnivorous alien spider. The mission of the medics to find a formula to heal ills and the pilot to look for her brother disappeared when his jet was downed. They're accidentally lost and the eight-legged spider causes wreak havoc terrorizing and destroying the crew . Lethal alien spider meets up local natives and crew and spontaneously catch them and begins to consume people. The spider rapidly multiplies and the protagonists confronting with it .This chiller with middling budget packs thrills, chills, some good action and few funny moments. It's a hybrid of monster movies from the 50s such as 'Tarantula' and modern American production such as 'Depredator'. The thrilling screenplay is a bit yawn-inspiring but nifty special effects will keep you from dozing off, its author is Steve Johnson, he's a nice creature effects designer, a perfect craftsman who made effects in 'Spiderman II' , 'Species II' , ' Blade II' , and ' War of worlds ' , among others. On the whole this is a suspenseful and tense thriller especially at the amazing ending tableau when Chris Potter and Alex Reid have to tackle the gigantic spider at the lair in the final. The tale is well produced by Brian Yuzna and Julio Fernandez, owners of Fantastic Factory productions, a successful terror movies company. The motion picture is professionally directed by Jack Sholder with rather too much camera movement and there are also lots of low-angle shots of people hanging around waiting to get bitten by the carnivorous spider. Although nothing which haven't been seen before, this is not the picture to watch if you are scared of spiders , however the movie is quite entertaining. Utterly arachnophobia people must flee this film.Other movies about those bugs are the following : ¨Tarantula(1955)¨ by Jack Arnold with John Agar; ¨Tarantula: the deadly cargo(1977)¨ with Claude Akins; ¨Kingdom of spiders(77)¨ by John Budd Cardos with William Shatner and ¨Arachnophobia(1990)¨ by Frank Marshall with John Goodman.

Arachnid: 7 of 10: Maybe it's the puppets that I liked. It's nice to see a movie made in the 21st century that doesn't use horrible shiny CGI for its creatures. (It does use horrible shiny CGI for it's alien spaceships.) Arachnid is all the better for it's retro monster. This is a true six-pack toke 'm if you got them B movie. A European production with decent location shooting, an international cast (half horrible and unintelligibly dubbed), and a real B movie budget unlike those $10 Z movie digital camcorder pretenders. It's all off course a bit predictable. (If you can't figure out two of the survivors at the end turn in your monster movie-watching card now.) And despite a lot of fodder (always a good sign) to many deaths seem off screen or at least over a little quickly. The movie also could have used some gratuitous nudity (If young thing Alex Reid wasn't willing at least allow Spanish star Neus Asensi to release those puppies like she has done in the past.) Those quibbles aside I couldn't help but cheer when the puppeteers took the Volkswagen sized spider out for the spin in the second half of the movie. Of course you enjoyment may depend on what you consumed during the first half.