Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Joshua Cimarric-Penczek The giant monster genre is among the most hackneyed and clichéd of them all, and most of them can be copied and pasted together. In fact, look at giant bug movies. Spiders, Eight Legged Freaks, Mimic, Them, The Deadly Mantis, and Mosquito are all basically the same movie. The same cant be said for Arachnid, which has possibly the most generic of all of those movie titles I just listed. The movie is part King Kong, part Predator, part Mulholland Drive, part Funny Games, and part giant bug flick. It could've just been a monster on the loose movie, but instead the writer and directer aimed for something a bit different. Complete with surreal dream sequences, unknown character motives, aliens, demons, dinosaurs, protagonist arcs that come 360 and then go 180, and several other things to make it as different as possible, Arachnid is truly a bizarre experience; imagine Mosquito or Spiders directed by a French art-house director.The movie involves a group of people in search for a police ranger's lost brother, who went missing in a dogfight with an alien spacecraft. While arriving on the island, they come across strange cannabalistic natives who may or may not hate the invading white folk. Along the way they come across flesh-eating insects, self discoveries, premonitions, and giant spiders. In all serious, the film shouldn't be called "Arachnid" but more "The Island" because that's who the star of the film is. Sure, arachnids take the focus from most of the other things, but the film also has several other things that need focus. It'd be like calling Tremors "Guns" because, yes, there are guns in Tremors, but they aren't really the main focus. The island itself appears to be sentient and playing mind games with the characters, and it becomes apparent that the spiders may not even be real but a figment within the minds of the characters themselves. There's also a seen in the movie where the spiders literally eliminate 80% of the cast, and that's something only a very ballsy writer and director would follow through with.Arachnid is low budget and feels low budget. We always want to remake these big budgeted classic pieces of cinema, why not do something like this? Arachnid isn't well liked because most giant bug movies want only that; giant bugs. They don't want surrealism and they don't like to ask questions. They want their applesauce to be served to them with a spoon while a bib is dangling from their neck. If it comes to this or Spiders (a movie this is often compared to), just buy 10 copies of this.

dbdumonteil "Arachnid" ,although not scarier than the old estimable "Tarentula" features a truly great scene : the heroine's nightmare,when her late brother appears ;the scene of the scientist caught up in the cocoon and who is "part of it" is also spooky .The rest is businesS as usual,"look,who's going to die ,now? " run of the mill,with things borrowed from "Alien(s)" (but the actress is not as energetic as Sigourney Weaver) and "predator",among many others.THat said ,as the director does not use special effects too much,the movie is as watchable as many average horror movies.And the scene of the brother is really a good thing ,if all the movie had been on the same level......

Lado Tsulukidze Usually, good directors filming the horror or semi-horror/sci-fi films choose a phobia from wide range of existing phobias and play on it...That works greatly on the people who actually have such phobia or are close to it, and it also works good for people who don't have, but get to understand after film, why other people have such phobia...Situation is completely different with Arachnid!If you take this movie and make someone who struggles from arachnophobia to watch it couple of times, I am sure he will be cured.Giant spider monster is so dumb, so funny, so stupidly made... that everyone will understand for good, that there's nothing we can afraid of, even if spiders will really become that big.Recommended for psychologists, use the film, cure the people!

Reaper-of-Souls This movie is so horrible that I now suffer from "Movie Arachnophobia" (fear of watching anymore movies about spiders). The beginning alone had me scratching my head wondering what was going through the writers/directors minds when they came up with the idea of how to start this film. It is downright pitiful and was almost enough for me to turn it off right then and there only a couple of minutes into it. ...and now in hindsight, I should have shut it off and not wasted the 90 minutes or so of my life viewing this absolutely awful film. I mean, there is worse out there, but this movie is still not even worth watching. If you must see this film, DO NOT spend the money to rent it...rather, wait for it to come on Sci-Fi sometime. One of the worst spider movies ever!!!