Big Ass Spider!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Big Ass Spider! |
| Original title | Big Ass Spider! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Mendez |
| script | Gregory Gieras |
| production |
Shaked Berenson , Patrick Ewald , Travis Stevens , Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein |
| music | Ceiri Torjussen |
| camera | Benji Bakshi |
| cut | Mike Mendez |
| occupation | |
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Big Ass Spider! is an American animal horror - action film from the year 2013 . Directed by Mike Mendez , the script was written by Gregory Gieras .
action
Alex Mathis is an exterminator in Los Angeles and always short of money. After being bitten by a spider during an operation, he is taken to the hospital. At the same time, an undertaker in this hospital is attacked by a large spider crawling out of a corpse that has just been brought to the pathology department. Alex offers the hospital to kill the spider in exchange for his bill. While he is looking for the spider with security guard Jose, a special US Army unit led by Major Braxton C. Tanner and Lt. Karly Brant arrives at the hospital and is also looking for the spider. The animal manages to escape from the hospital into the sewer system. The major and Karly forbid Alex and Jose to continue looking for the spider, but Jose convinces Alex not to give up just yet.
The spider is now growing rapidly and is constantly looking for food. Alex and Jose find her in a park where she kills dozens of people. They lure the monster out of the park towards the military, who immediately open fire. The spider then flees first into a forest, where it catches Karly after another firefight and escapes with her towards the city center. Alex and Jose now learn from the major that the monster is a failed experiment with extraterrestrial DNA, in which huge vegetables should actually be grown. They also learn that the animal is about to reproduce.
The spider has meanwhile climbed the US Bank Tower and has laid her eggs inside the skyscraper in which the spun Karly is also located. The military wants to destroy the building and the monsters with an air strike. However, Alex wants to save Karly and can delay the airstrike. He and Jose manage to get Karly out of the house and kill the hatched young animals. Alex and Jose remember the first time they met the spider in the hospital they noticed that the webs are extremely flammable. He decides to kill the monster with a shot with a bazooka in the spinneret , which he finally succeeds.
reception
Cinema calls Big Ass Spider! "[p] witty low-budget fun with weird CGI tricks and a personable everyday hero" and concludes with the conclusion: "By the spider's ass: great crawling fun!"
On the Tomatometer scale of the Rotten Tomatoes film website , the film achieved a rating of 79%, based on 24 reviews, and thus the rating “guaranteed fresh” (certified fresh).
The filmstarts.de editors describe the film as "harmless, too seldom funny trash thunderstorm, in which, despite the likeable characters and plenty of swipes at Hollywood, not all gags ignite" and awards two out of five stars.
background
The German premiere of Big Ass Spider! took place at the Fantasy Filmfest 2013. At the Saturn Awards ceremony in 2014 in Burbank , California , the film won the award in the category Best DVD or Blu-ray release .
The jogger who is being eaten by the giant spider in the park is director and producer Lloyd Kaufman , one of the founders of the Troma Entertainment production company known for low-budget and trash films .
Exterminator Alex works in the film for the pest control company Western Exterminator Company , which actually exists in Los Angeles. For example, the pickup truck driven in the film carries the original company advertising including the mascot “Mr. Little “and real phone number. The company then sponsored a film screening at the PestWorld trade fair in October 2013.
In the end credits of the film, a short video is played in which Major Braxton C. Tanner makes an emergency call to Alex in which he asks him how big the biggest cockroach he has ever seen is. In the background you can see a monster cockroach climbing onto the Statue of Liberty .
Web links
- Big Ass Spider! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Big Ass Spider! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 413 V).
- ↑ Big Ass Spider! cinema.de, accessed on February 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Big Ass Spider! Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Lars-Christian Daniels: Big Ass Spider! filmstarts.de, accessed on February 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Awards for 2014 Saturn Award. Internet Movie Database, accessed February 3, 2016 .
- ^ Western Exterminator Hits the Silver Screen. Pest Control Technology, October 21, 2013, accessed February 3, 2016 .