Spinning death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Spinning death |
| Original title | Earth vs. the spider |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Ziehl |
| script |
Cary Solomon , Chuck Konzelman , Max Enscoe , Annie DeYoung |
| production |
Lou Arkoff , Colleen Camp , Stan Winston |
| music | David Reynolds |
| camera | Thomas L. Callaway |
| cut | Gregg Featherman |
| occupation | |
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Spiders of death ( Earth vs. the Spider is) an American science fiction - horror film from the year 2001 . Directed by Scott Ziehl , the script was written by Cary Solomon , Chuck Konzelman , Max Enscoe and Annie DeYoung .
The film was produced for television as part of the Creature Feature series. This series includes the SF horror film The Day the World Ended - Death from Space with Nastassja Kinski and Randy Quaid from 2001. In some countries such as France and Argentina , Spiders of Death was first released on DVD or video.
action
Shy Quentin Kemmer loves comic books . He works as a guard in a science laboratory. One night there is a robbery in which the robbers steal the tested agents and kill two people in the process.
Kemmer is released. He steals and injects himself with a lab-tested drug, hoping it will turn him into a superhero . Kemmer wants to impress his neighbor Stephanie Lewis. First he gets supernatural powers that he uses to fight the criminals. However, later he turns into a large spider that kills people. Police investigator Jack Grillo examines the bodies wrapped in cobwebs and looks for the perpetrator. The end remains open: Kemmer mutated into a spider and his beloved look deep into each other's eyes before a short final scene introduces a comic action figure called "Quentin Artachnoid", which bears a considerable resemblance to Kemmer's spider-human figure . Kemmer has therefore achieved his goal and has become a "real" (ie a comic) superhero.
Reviews
Ryan Cracknell described the film in the Apollo Movie Guide as a " B-Thriller ". It takes far too long to get to the point and is not original. Cracknell praised the " halfway decent for a television movie " special effects by Stan Winston .
The lexicon of international films wrote that the “ genre-typical plot ” was “ easy to understand ”. The film was " decorated with some decent special effects ".
Awards
The film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best TV Film in 2002 .
Web links
- Spiders of death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Spiders of death at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spiders of Death in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 1, 2007
- ↑ Release dates for Earth vs. the Spider, accessed November 1, 2007
- ↑ Film review by Ryan Cracknell, accessed November 1, 2007 ( July 2, 2003 memento in the Internet Archive )