Just perfect...

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

In the Spider's Web is another example of late of a movie that I was not expecting much from, but got better than expected. There are some creepy close-ups, a good attempt at a sense of atmosphere, decent scenery and a good concept that apart from a lot of silliness actually does engage at least. Where In the Spider's Web is let down is in the rather fake-looking effects, some very cheesy scripting, clichéd and very underwritten characters, one too many moments where one has to suspend disbelief and acting that doesn't convey much emotion and when tried feels forced. And sadly, while a nice presence Lance Henrikseen is no exception.All in all, has its moments but to me In the Spider's Web is not a good movie let alone great. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Initially I had hopes for "In the Spider's Web" because the DVD cover looked so promising. A dark place with a person hanging down, suspended by webbing and wrapped up like a cocoon. Underneath the helpless person is a number of skulls and at the front of the DVD cover is a fairly cool-looking big spider.I love monster movies, unfortunately there are just too many bad ones out there. "In the Spider's Web", however, fall into the not-so-great category of creature features. The movie means well enough, but it just have a story that is hard to believe and buy into, and that makes the movie all the more difficult to digest.The acting in the movie wasn't bad, mind you, the actors just struggled with a weak storyline and plot. I hadn't expected Lance Henriksen on the cast list here, so it was a nice surprise to see that.What really made the movie not work for me, was the spiders. In some scenes they made use of real spiders, which was really cool. Then in other scenes they used poorly animated CGI spiders, and often repeated the same scene. But wait, it gets better, in many scenes they were using plastic toy spiders hanging down from above in strings. And it was so painstakingly obvious that it was toys, as they weren't moving about at all. That was just too hilarious and it had me shaking me head in disbelief.I enjoy spider movies, however there are not all that many of them that have turned out to be super great. And now having seen "In the Spider's Web", I can honestly say it will be bagged, tagged and shelved in my DVD collection, most likely never to be played again.

In the Spider's Web is set somewhere in India where several friends are on holiday in a huge forest, Brian (Mike Rogers) claims little is known of the region except lots of Spider's live there. After one of the friends Geraldine (Jane Perry) is bitten by a poisonous Spider while sleeping the rest of the party decide to take her to the nearest village for help where they find Dr. Lecorpus (lance Henriksen) who happens to be a bit of an expert on Spider's, he does all he can to save Geraldine although the other's feel they need outside help so decide to split up with Brian & Stacy (Lisa Livingstone) staying behind at the village while the rest head for the nearest town. However it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Lecorpus' intentions are far from well meaning & as a disgraced surgeon harvests human organs to sell on the black market using the special properties of Spider venom...Directed by Terry Winsor this is yet another 'Creature Feature' that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel before hitting DVD shelves as part of the Maneater series of films which includes some terrible stuff & I am sad to say In the Spider's Web pretty much continues the trend. To be fair the makers of In the Spider's Web have tried to mix a few genres together here with elements of creature feature with the Spider's themselves, mad scientist horror with Henriksen harvesting human organs for profit & adventure with daring escapes across huge ravines using bridges made of Spider's webs but it still doesn't add up to anything that significant or good. A lot of the plot is underdeveloped (how do they harvest the Spider venom, what's the story behind the guy with a bag over his head & why do the tribe worship Spider's or even help Dr. Lecorpus?), the character's are poor, the dialogue is poor & it's fairly forgettable. At just over 80 odd minutes at least it's not too long & it does move along at a fair pace but I really can't say I enjoyed watching it to any great degree.There isn't even any gore to take your mind off the the bad script, there's a bit of fake blood but nothing else worth mentioning. The Spider's themselves are depicted using real Spider's which look good for obvious reason, fake rubber ones which look daft as they dangle on string & don't move at all & the CGI computer graphics ones which are awful & just look bad as they move along. Also it's worth noting just how none sticky the Spider's webs are in this, the three at the end walk across that web bridge but never get stuck once & everyone else just walks through or over the stuff & yet it never sticks to anything which is odd because even normal sized ones you find in your garden shed are sticky if you touch them let alone supposedly thousands woven together.Obviously shot on a low budget this had some filming in Thailand although some of the jungle scenes are plainly studio bound as you can hear that distinctive sound stage echo. The acting is pretty bad all round & Henriksen deserves to be in better than this, he doesn't even get a decent death scene.In the Spider's Web is another bad Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' that is as forgettable as most of the other's, lots of time spent following people walking around a cave but little else to be honest.

I watched this movie on the Sci-Fi channel last night, as I was channel surfing. The movie started without explaining much: the characters, why they were there, where exactly they at, etc. To me, that usually means I'm in for a bad movie experience. I was half right.There were moments in this movie where it pained me to watch, not out of fright of the spiders, but just fright from the horrible acting. There was almost no emotion during moments where there should have been strong emotion. The doctor, however, did an okay job. I won't bash him.In a spider movie, I am looking for good graphics, or at least real spiders. This movie had a mixture. There were close-ups of real spiders that were pretty creepy; even though the spiders all kind of looked the same. Then there were also the spiders falling from the ceiling that looked so fake I almost laughed out loud. But then they would shoot to a real spider again, thus redeeming themselves for the moment.-SPOILER- The movie wouldn't have been that bad for me, honestly, even with the bad acting and bad spider graphics, if they had not added the "plot twist." To top off the spiders killing the villagers and the tourists, the doctor of the tribe had to be part of a black market organ stealing scheme. He used the venom of the spiders to paralyze the victims then cut them open and steal their organs, the venom also kept the organs fresh longer. I about peed myself when I found out what the whole movie was all about.I may have bashed this movie, but I'm also just picky. It's worth watching when it's free on television. It's not a complete waste of time, just don't rent it.