Jean Luc Coppola
When you watch a film with a title like "Camel Spiders" and you know that Roger Corman produced it and Jim Wynorski directed it you know exactly what you get. This is a cheesy monster movie, much funnier than the typical SciFi movies so please don't take it much too serious and do not compare it to those zillion Dollar Blockbuster Movies. The spiders look OK, but the CGI blood, well, that's just another story. There are a lot of familiar faces in it. Brian Krause and C. Thomas Howell once had a serious career, now they are regulars in films from the SciFi channel and they're doing a good job here. B-Movie hotties Jessica Cameron and Paula Labaredas have also some very good but much too short appearances.Some funny thoughts on this film: Whenever the spiders attack people they all jump on the people's faces and: whatever happened to the girls who ran away after their guys were killed by the spiders ?If you like cheesy Trash Movies as much as I do you will have a great time watching "Camel Spiders".
Neil Welch
The three phases of C Thomas Howell's career are interesting - he started off as a promising juvenile lead. When that fizzled out, you would find him in steamy would-be erotic romps, usually with Joan Severance. And the third (and ongoing)phase finds him in a never-ending succession of truly ropy science fiction movies.Camel Spiders is one such, also featuring Brian Krause and thus answers the question "What happens to actors from TV series when the series ends and they don't get another offer?". At one point, after someone suggests a creature is a spider, an expert suggests reprovingly that he should count the number of appendages. "Six" comes the shame-faced reply as the audience counts 8 legs and a pair of pincers.This is poor.
seularts
Camel spiders? What kind of a name is that, since they don't even look anything like a camel!? The movie is below bad and it's very unfortunate, because it had potential. The background, camera angels and soundtrack were very well made, but man did the story and characters blow the movie to bits and ashes. At one point I started wondering if this movie isn't insulting the viewer's intelligence!? The basic story is this: a group of US soldiers shoot at some pathetic Middle Eastern guys and the spiders just pop in for a snack. US army doesn't see the spider and the other guys get eaten by them. And now the movie producer weak up our darkest fear: spiders getting in our mouths when we sleep or when we are dead. That's a horrible way to start a movie. From this point on everything goes from bad to worse, people shoot horizontally and the bullets are pulled down by gravity and fall on the poorly CG generated spiders, characters use stupid dialog lines and this doesn't even resemble a comedy anymore, just a dumb movie with dumb American people (not that far-fetched from reality). If terrorist would try to fight of the American infidels, they wouldn't need to; they could just stay at home and laugh, on their sofas, watching the news on TV about America being overpopulated by huge insects and all the dumb American people would do is just scream, run, fall and get eaten by spiders – which turns out to be the end of the movie. In conclusion, spiders only love American dumb meat, because it's easy to catch as pray. I recommend you to skip this one and try to do something useful with 2 hours of your life.
rorylayden
This movie should be avoided - the fact that people made some effort with such a terrible movie is really regrettable - don't compound that by watching it!However if you are going to persist with it make sure you have something else to do at the same time.The filming is poor, so much so that blood from the spiders splashes on the camera lens on occasion, the special effects - i.e. the spiders - are very poor and the acting is to be honest a waste of the actors' time. They will hopefully get better acting roles in the future.For any prospective viewers, if you don't like the fun of looking at really poorly made movies, then maybe go for a walk ... just avoid the killer spiders!
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