The Worst Film Ever

The acting in this movie is really good.

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

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A title like Earth vs. the Spider is way too pretentious for a film of middling scale like this. What we have here is nothing more or less than a rip-off of the Fly. It feels shallow, pointless, maybe occasionally freaky, but hardly exciting. On top of that it has a majorly disappointing finale.Quentin Kemmer is a security guard at a major biochemistry firm. He is a nice guy, and all he really wants out of life is a chance to be a hero. One afternoon there is a break in to the firm. Six people are killed, including his parter, and he blames himself for not being tough enough to prevent it. It a moment of hesitation he injects himself with the firm's latest top secret formula mixed from spider DNA. The next day he is a lot stronger, happier, and even gets a chance to be the hero he wants. As the days progress however, he gets hungrier, more deformed and dangerous to the point that he must stop himself before the beast within him gets loose.The film is most involving when it explores the relationship between Quentin, and his lady friend next door, who he is shy of asking out. The entire film could've been based around this one thing and it would've been fine. However, another part of the plot concerns the investigation of Dan Akroyd's character which ends up amounting to nothing. What is more frustrating however is the total sloppiness of the climax. Like the film in its entirety, the last scene is random, rushed and insulting to the viewer. There is much to be explained when Earth vs. the Spider ends. The question is whether the story has gotten you involved enough to care, unfortunately no.Neighbourhood vs. the Spider would be a more appropriate name. It is a small scale, not very effective creature feature, too short, and far too derivative. Monster fans will be disappointed I think.

We've seen a lot of good movies from Dan Akroyd. One might hope that if he made a bad one, you would be able to spot it. It is usually easy to spot bad movies, but only because the plots are easy to spot. But unfortunately in this movie, they are advertising things that don't even exist in the movie. There is no giant spider and the planet is in no way involved with the thing we do get.I happen to recall that there was a giant spider movie somewhere recently that was also pretty bad, but had some nice special effects. This movie also cites special effects as something to look for, but we don't get any until the last 15 minutes or so and they are nothing special. The latest King Kong was no great story, but the special effects were truly benchmark stuff, absolutely awesome.The movie makers are generally pretty careful about listing the ingredients on their films, but not this time.

Quentin Kemmer is a shy security guard at a bio-research lab. He can't stand up for himself, reads comics and is never going to get up the courage to ask out beautiful neighbour Stephanie. When a break-in to the labs see his partner and one cop dead, Quentin is blamed and fired. Emotionally a mess, Quentin injects himself with some serum in the lab before he goes – somehow believing it will make him strong and fearless. At first it all seems great – he is a hero who stops a famous criminal that has evaded the police – but gradually his gift starts become more of a curse.I have only seen one of the "creature features" before and it was awful, so I was a bit hesitant about coming back to the stable in case all their horses were cows. With Earth vs. the Spider things appeared to be good at the start; the comic book credits suggest a sense of fun that would come through the film and the plot clichés being put in place suggested that the series might have achieved the b-movie feel that it was aiming for. I suppose in one way it did achieve this though because it is derivative and cheap and clearly just put out as filler – which is pretty much what most b-movies were, we just tend to fondly remember some of the better ones. This is a pretty poor copy of The Fly; it tries to cover similar ground but by being so similar it only shows up how far short it falls in almost every way. The plot goes just where you expect it to and, without any real character or interest, Kemmer's transformation is totally physical and totally dull.Gummersall hardly helps this with a performance that involves just being quiet at the start and then just getting louder as more makeup is put on him. Aykroyd is a famous bit of support but he has little to do – likewise Russell. Heinle is OK but nothing happens around her to help her, meanwhile John Cho is just a curio find rather than being any good or funny.Overall this is a very basic film that will maybe appeal to teenagers surfing late night TV for some special effects. However it must be said that anyone looking for more should just go and rent The Fly which covers all the same ground but does it much, much better.

Me and my friend rented this movie in hopes that it would provide an hour's entertainment. And from the premise, this movie could have been good. Emphasis on could have been.Basic premise: Comic-book geek, working as a night-shift security guard at some sort of biotech lab sees his partner gunned down in front of him and impulsively injects himself with super-spider juice. he comes down with a fever, and when he recovers, he's got superpowers! yay, right? Wrong. his transformation into a spider continues progressing, and his behavior becomes more and more bestial. he considers himself a threat to everyone around him, and eventually winds up killing people. I don't know how it ended because I turned it off about 3/4 of the way into it.Frankly, it's amazing we lasted that long. We survived mostly by making fun of it relentlessly, but is really not much fun with this film as it lacks the outright ridiculousness of similarly poor movies such as Boa Vs. Python.The camera-work is poor, the acting is terrible, and the plot such a clichéd mess that even the old Captain America cartoons have trouble competing in terms of sheer lameness.if MST3K were still around, I'm sure they could make this comedic genius. Me, I just don't have the patience to sit through it.