Casey Duggan
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
mnofan
This movie is, perhaps, one of the worst movies I have ever watched. Starting from the bad CGI effects, all the way to the guns being marked with paint to show they are toys and not real, someone should have a little bit more expectations when making this farce. Had there been a smidgen of comedy in it, I might have enjoyed the movie even just a bit.While the landscape was beautiful, someone forgot to mention to the producers of the show, that if your characters announce they are in Arizona, maybe the license plates of ALL the vehicles shouldn't say California, including the sheriff's car.I almost felt sorry for some of the actors having to trying to portray anything resembling a real person, and can probably count on one hand the ones that actually did act. As a young actor, C. Thomas Howell had chops; now I know that he must only pick bad movies to make up his resume as he gets older; so sad.I especially love the fact that the group of people hiding out in the basement, were actually above ground, as shown by the windows in the background. Or when people go into a room, with a broken window, and state they'll be safe there.So many things were wrong, you could actually pick any scene from the movie and discover the ridiculousness of it all.If you really, really love crappy movies or want noise in the background while you are doing something else, this movie is for you!
GL84
When a soldier's body is shipped back to the US after being killed in the Middle East, a small town comes under siege of the vicious Camel Spiders hiding within his body and are forced to protect themselves from the ravenous creatures.This was an absolutely amazing Sci-Fi Channel entry that really has hardly anything wrong with it but a lot to enjoy. Like most of the Sci-Fi channel efforts, the main attraction with this one being the high amount of action depicted here, which has a lot to do with how fun this is. The opening gets this one started nicely in a furious military gunfight in the desert as the soldiers fight off the others at the desert outcrops that turns into a massive spider ambush which they take to mean is the enemy retreating instead gets this going incredibly well with a fine firefight, and the rest of the movie is incredibly fun. It's got a lot of rather fun and exciting action scenes as the numerous creatures attack and are dispatched throughout the movie in typical fashion here mixing from quick bursts to extended pieces, from the ambush taking out the couples out in the middle of the desert to the spider's chasing victims through the woods into a remote farmhouse and a later diner ambush that's quite a lot of fun being the best of the encounters. As is expected, the longer encounters here are what make this one really fun as they manage to get out most of the positives in the film with the survival group stowed away inside the house where they come under attack while hiding out and are forced to deal with them entering the house and escaping.Finally, there's the industrial complex attack that stands as the centerpiece of the main finale showing them getting trapped inside and the different escapes running into the creatures resulting in some really fun cheesy firefights found all throughout the building leading to the big charge to get out finding them completely overrun by the spiders leading to more firefights barricading themselves away and letting the big firefight to get away giving this some really big explosive action, the result of all of this action keeping the pacing up rather nicely. Along with the numerous attacks comes a lot of blood and gore, and while still CGI the amount of damage done to the high body-count is rather nice, and with the real-world implications of the creatures and a few tense moments during the shootouts thrown into the mix, it's got a lot going for it that definitely works here. There really isn't too many flaws here with this one. As per normal, it's hard to take the CGI in this as anything but a total joke here, as not only do the spiders look fake but there's too many CGI bases for scenes that don't need to which should be quite normal and really doesn't damage the movie too much. This makes it a bit too cheesy to take seriously, but it's the only real issue here as there's more positives here to make this one a lot of fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and scenes of children in danger.
Dava Gordon
Iv never seen anything so poorly made in my life the story line was just a simple rip off of 8 legged freak really appalling as for the special effects you could tell it was all fake even the way they were shooting there guns in the air was really realistic(NOT) and the deaths were even better the way people died was really amusing cant believe they have made a DVD of this i would never recommend this film to anyone, if you want to watch a spider movie watch 8 legged freaks its better than this 99p movie if you do descide to watch this don't say i didn't warn you.*Try and spot they guy who dies in the bathroom* lmao
TheLittleSongbird
I am a person who juggles my many music commitments with some free time, which I use to watch movies and listen to music. Save a few tolerable ones, a lot of the SyFy movies are terrible. Camel Spiders is no exception, in fact it is one of SyFy's very worst.As bad as Titanic II, Mega Piranha, 2010: Moby Dick, Battle of Los Angeles and Quantum Apocalypse are, and they are, awful even, Camel Spiders makes them award-worthy in comparison.To begin criticising Camel Spiders would be difficult as there is so much wrong. Let's start with how the film is made, Camel Spiders is one of the cheapest looking of all the SyFy movies right down from the slapdash filming to the gimmicky way the gore and such is used.Camel Spiders completely fails in the script and story too. The script contains some of the worst dialogue I've heard, it was all very forced and cliché-ridden. The story isn't engaging in the least, it was to me a silly premise anyway, but the story itself was bland and predictable with too much time wasted on some of the least interesting story ideas of the movie.The characters I felt indifferent too, they are annoying and underdeveloped and the camel spiders of the title are not menacing at all and laughable in their design. The direction is sloppy, the soundtrack is forgettable, the sound effects sound distorted and are misplaced and the pace is inconsistent with both rushed and pedestrian moments. And need I mention how wooden across the board the acting was? Overall, a terrible movie and one of SyFy's bottom-of-the-barrel type movies. 0/10 Bethany Cox
