Arachnid (2001)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Jack Sholder

Writer:

Mark Sevi (writer)

Release Date:

29 June 2001 (Spain)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

It's coming from another world... TO STAY!

Plot:

A man is taken to a small clinic in Guam with mysterious bites on him. This sparks a search for what could have caused such wounds...

Plot Keywords:

Island | Guam | Bug Collector | Pilot | Blowgun

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Chris Potter	...	Valentine
Alex Reid	...	Mercer
José Sancho	...	Dr. Samuel Leon
Neus Asensi	...	Susana
Ravil Isyanov	...	Henry Capri
Rocqueford Allen	...	Bear
Robert Vicencio	...	Toe Boy (as Robert Gabriel Vicencio)
Jesús Cabrero	...	Lightfoot
Héctor Chiquín	...	Native 1
Luis Lorenzo Crespo	...	Reyes (as Luis Lorenzo)
Conejo Wilson	...	Native 2
Fausto Gualsaqui	...	Native 3

Also Known As:

Amazon (Philippines: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for creature violence/gore and language.

Runtime:

95 min | Argentina:102 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Malaysia:18SG (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | South Korea:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Argentina:13 | Germany:16 | Peru:14 | Spain:T | UK:15 | USA:R | Australia:M | Philippines:R-18

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Castelao Producciones

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Kovak Box (2006)

Fantastic Factory: Second assault

After "Faust" the producers Julio Fernández and Brian Yuzna together with director Jack Sholder decided to offer us one of those typical monsters movies normally direct to video although in this case, obviously it was released at the theaters. The film was very well advertised in TV but unfortunately it was a complete flop at the box office(Less than 50 million pesetas for more than 100 copies), but despite that and even recognizing that it is a quite weak movie I prefer this to the mentioned "Faust". The plot is typical but at least it has more sense and less holes than Fantastic Factory´s first movie and the acting was also a bit better, so people didn´t laugh at the theater(In "Faust" as I said they were frequently doing so).For "Arachnid" I think that the producers had a clearer idea of what they wanted to do, a typical B movie similar to those B fantastic movies that Filmax has been distributing in video during all its existence something like "Spiders" or "Crocodile" with sometimes bad special effects and where the job by Sholder is far from being so inspired as in "Hidden" or "A nightmare on Elm Street 2" but nevertheless the film has some good points and Sholder gets one memorable scene about the killing of a guy by a group of mutant ticks which is the best of the movie and which is, no doubt, the best goric scene that I have seen lately.