SPIDERS II: BREEDING GROUND

Alexandra and her husband Jason are two boaters who encounter a storm; their boat is destroyed and they are rescued by a cargo ship. Initially, the ship's crew is very kind to them, but the doctor's excessive attention pushes Jason to snoop around some 'off-limits' areas of the ship. Alexandra and her husband will discover a horrible reality: the doctor keeps a brood of giant spiders in his lab on which he performs medical experiments and feeds shipwrecked people and others plundered from the seas. As is easily inferred from the plot, 'Spiders 2' is a typical B-movie product, or rather, it would be more accurate to speak of a C-movie, given the very low level, not only in content but also in artistic and technical terms, of the film. Despite the number 2 in the title, this film has no connection to 'Spiders,' an equally bad film directed by Gary Jones in 1999, except for the presence of giant, voracious spiders. But if in Jones' film the spiders were of extraterrestrial origin and there was a clear intention to pay homage to old monster movies ('Tarantola' and the like, to be clear), especially in the exaggerated finale, in this film the origin of the spiders is not very clear, except through confused references to scientific research and genetic experiments. The creatures were created both with the always functional 'puppets' and with poor computer graphics that abound especially in the final showdown with numerous poorly integrated spiders with the landscape. The cast consists of unknowns from the American television scene: from Stephanie Niznik as Alexandra to Greg Cromer as Jason; the only slightly known face is Daniel Quinn, who plays Captain Bigelow and had already been the protagonist of the two 'Scanner Cop' films. Routine direction by the anonymous Sam Firstenberg, already the author of 'filmoni' like 'Cyborg Cop' and 'Delta Force 3.' If you overlook the countless flaws, the film entertains and manages to make an hour and a half pass in a carefree way, but it remains a useless and highly negligible film.