Webs (2003)

...and it's not something I'm proud of.During my early high school years, I used to rent movies every Friday at my local video store, mostly horror films. One of those days, I asked the clerk for some recommendation since I couldn't find anything interesting enough, so he suggested ''Webs''. He described it as ''Alien with spiders instead of xenomorphs'' and since the DVD art looked sort of creepy, I believed him.Oh boy, I had absolutely no idea of what I was about to see...It took me less than 10 minutes to realize the truth; I had been fooled. I'd like to write a good review but I'll just sum this movie up with a single word; CRINGE.It seemed like they didn't even tried hard, they just took ideas from lots of sci-fi/monster movies and executed them in the worst way possible; just compare the ending to the one of ''Deep Rising''. The acting was the kind of acting you expect to see in these kind of movies, forgettable and bland. The same goes for the dialogue. And yes, it was the last movie I ever rented. It's not something I'm proud to say, but I don't regret it either, not in the least. It made me laugh a lot, so it gets a few points because of it.

"Webs" is a lot of fun and definitely worthwhile creature feature.**SPOILERS**Investigating an abandoned building, electrical workers Dean, (Richard Grieco) Ray, (Richard Yearwood) Sheldon, (Jeffrey Jones) and Jones, (Anthony Ashbee) are sent in to find a reason why power charges still occur. Discovering a hidden room, they are mysteriously transported to an alternate universe of Chicago. Finding the area overrun by gigantic, ravenous spider-people and are leading a war against the sole survivors of the dimension, lead by Elena, (Kate Greenhouse) Crane, (David Nerman) and Dr. Richard Morelli, (Colin Fox) who also entered the dimension years ago. Desperate to get back to their dimension, they become aware of a plot by the spider-people to take control of the transporter for their own use, leading to an all-out war with them for the dimension-transporter.The Good News: This wasn't an all that bad entry, and was actually pretty good at times. The fact that there's a lot of action is something to enjoy, as this one's a rather fun action movie disguised as a creature feature. By coming into the realm engaged in a war, it shows some really nice scenes between the two sides. The first sequence where they come into contact with them, outside the bank near the tunnel that the trap is laid, is a great one, as is the several confrontations that occur throughout to show the war going on, which is nicely done. The fact that there's a lot more confrontations spread throughout here, because of the way the film presents the struggle as being a war, we get some great scenes, including other fights as well as two raids which determine the finale being really great. The fact that both of them are so close to each other that they meld into one straight sequence is a blessing, and allowing all of the action, from the battles in the school rooms and to the rather fun closing in the hideout, these are all really great and offer up a bunch of great action scenes. These also work to give the film a fantastic pace as well, which is a good bonus. This one never feels boring or slow and these are useful in keeping it going along rather nicely. This one also has a really high body count, which is also a plus, and many of them are gory as well. There's numerous amounts of stabbing and impaling with the long spears, plenty of splatter from gunshots, limbs ripped off, scratched and devoured, another has half their body ripped up and scratched from an attack, there's another torn in half at the waist and one where the pincers are impaled in the back and come out the chest in front, among other in here. That these provide such a high count is great, as it offers up plenty of opportunity for something to happen, and that makes the size of it impressive and help the war out a little more. The last plus is the relatively fun creatures on display. The spider design is impressive, looking really nice and quite scary at times, especially during the opening battles and a couple of moments where the queen is on-screen. She looks really nice as well, even better than the drones and the fact that this one decides to give them a little bit in terms of social structure complete with rules about what happens and all. These here are the film's good points.The Bad News: There wasn't much wrong to this one. Despite looking rather cool, the fact that the spiders look so fake and corny is the main one here. There's no real sense of taking them seriously at all since the scenes are nothing more than just laughable and hardly any attempt is made to disguise the fact. It's all very fake-looking and don't really do it justice. There's also the film's other flaw, the completely illogical, contrived and convoluted way of explaining how the teleporting-device works, which is a major selling point of the film. The way it's presented here has little to no way of being coherent at all, and is only given a cursory glance at late into the film that actually comes close to explaining it, yet that's all not very much. These here are all that you can really fault this one.The Final Verdict: With some great stuff to it and a couple of minor flaws, this one is a really entertaining and enjoyable entry. Give this one a shot if you're into the genre, like the Sci-Fi Channel creature features or find it interesting, while those who aren't big fans of the style should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language

In Chicago, four electricians leaded by Dean (Richard Grieco) come to an old building to disconnect power. They accidentally activate a portal and arrive in another dimension, where Chicago was destroyed by a Spider Queen and inhabited by mutants. The group meets survivors leaded by Crane (David Nerman) and Elena (Kate Greenhouse), and finds the inventor of the portal, Dr. Richard Morelli (Colin Fox), who has been living in this dimension for thirty years. They join forces, trying to rebuilt a portal to bring them back home. "Webs" is a watchable plagiarizing of "Sliders", only worse. Most of the dialogs seem to be written by a person who has not concluded the elementary school, so imbecile they are. Further, the story is illogical, and seems that Chicago is the only city in the world. The scientist trying to start his sophisticated machine with broken wires as if he were stealing a car is very funny. The face of Richard Grieco looks like a white version of Michael Jackson and is horrible. If the viewer shuts-down his or her brain, he or she may like this forgettable TV movie. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Na Teia do Terror" ("In the Web of Horror")

I had seen this movie just days before Halloween 2004. I noticed it around lunch-time and it was an interesting description in my menu box so I decided to watch it. Seriously only a movie only suitable for late night TV...you know, after Conan but before the infomercials sorta deal.Although this movie has very little to do with webs, it does have a lot to do with spiders, refer to my heading if you need a refresher.I found the idea behind the story absolutely fascinating. A hidden nuclear generator, a scientist and a believable portal...Would have been a good start to a cool fantasy but then it goes downhill after 15-20 minutes.The cast is poor with no memorable performances, poor quality queen who has had her breasts amplified...considering spiders don't carry breasts. As well as poor sound effects. An obvious low budget movie though the cast has tried.SPOILER:4 electricians stumble upon a hidden nuclear generator while on a job. They fiddle with the buttons and open a portal. 2 workers fall into the portal and it closes...scrambling to figure out what is going on, the party still in our world seeks help while the other party observers their surroundings.Help does not arrive so they open the portal and follow through meeting up in a parallel dimension. They encounter a race of human spiders dubbed soldiers. After a death and chase they are saved by survivors.Now it gets boring...they hide, talk a bit, try to build another portal then attack the hive. After losing 2 more electricians they open the portal and escape returning to our world...some 200 million years ago.Sounds interesting huh?