This budget-limited attempt at a creature-feature-without-the creature sees America under siege from giant genetically-modified killer spiders. After a very brief but slightly promising opening scene, the film then spends its running time following a pair of dull, barely-developed and uninteresting citizens (with mismatched performances) who are trapped underground and crawl through endless dark tunnels. Dialogue and performances are barely functional, off-screen spider noises are used to limit on-screen action, and the bottle situation is dragged out to the extreme as not a lot happens; forty minutes in, the pair find a torch on the floor, and when proceedings threaten to liven up around the one-hour mark, it is quickly replaced by more tunnel-crawling. Your patience - if it lasts - is rewarded by a short scene with a full-sized spider later on in the movie and a very final frustrating shot of the film that we wanted to see all along.
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