EARTH VS. THE SPIDER

To avenge the death of a friend, a young comic book enthusiast injects himself with the blood of a genetically modified spider and transforms into a horrible eight-legged creature intent on weaving a malevolent web of death and fear... It could be defined as a "Spider Man" in horror version, or rather in B-movie version, as the film in question takes inspiration – albeit indirectly – from the hero created by Stan Lee and brought to the big screen by Sam Raimi. Winston's Spider-Man (this film is also part of the series produced for the "Creatures of Chill" cycle) is in no way a hero; he is certainly closer to Cronenberg's horrifying "The Fly" (from which he also steals a couple of ideas) than to the most famous wall-crawler in the world. Once again, the extremely well-crafted special effects take center stage, but this film, like almost all the others in the same series, lacks rhythm (the first part is completely devoid of narrative tension) and also originality (the situations and twists of the story are always predictable). In the cast, a more and more pregnant and opulent Dan Aykroyd, now far removed from the glory days of "Blues Brothers".