Review – Ice Spiders

Movies like this have one thing solidly going for them: you get exactly what the title promises you. How often can you say that about anything in 21st century society? We live in a world where sugary candy is labeled as “fat free,” as if that makes it good for you. We’re bombarded with no end of too-good-to-be-true offers with treacherous fine print. How refreshing it is, then, to be able to come home at the end of the day, sit back, relax, and watch a movie called Ice Spiders that turns out to be nothing but a ski lodge being attacked by giant spiders. The straightforward nature of the proposition almost made me sorry when they broke down and tried to concoct some kind of excuse for the arachnids’ gargantuan size and unusual tolerance for the cold (something about a military lab creating them for strategic spider purposes). The effects are horrible in an entertaining sort of way, as are the writing and the acting. Edifying, Oscar-winning cinema this ain’t, but I’ve made more useless use of 90-minute stretches of my life. Mildly amusing