Most people will never pick up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Lucky for us, the people in this movie did not take that advice. The first hitchhiker is odd enough. He reviews adult films. And also happens to be into men. Which promptly puts him out of the truck.
The bigger problem is with the man who picked up the hitchhiker. He was a little disappointed with his girlfriend cheating on him, so he brought her out to the desert and ... you can guess what happens. And you would think that he would be happy enough to put that problem behind him. I guess not, because he hitches and gets picked up by four women from Colorado Springs, who are on their way to Vegas to get liquored up and make bad decisions.
Conveniently, there is something wrong with the brand new car that they are driving and must spend the night at a motel on the side of the road. Things get out of had quickly when one of the women has some sex with the hitchhiker. Tame to what will happen next. A stab here, a punch there, and the hitchhiker begins to get very violent with the women. Add in some additional victims and a couple of the worst police officers in Utah and you have all of the makings for a body stacking party.
The story moves along fine and the hitchhiker guy is pretty convincing as a lunatic. I thought that the violence was a little held back. Gore could have been played up a little more too. But other than that, not a bad little flick. Ending is very predictable.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 bottles of Miller High Life.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Ice Spiders
Vanessa Williams is in this movie. But it's not the Vanessa Williams that I recognized. Could there be two actresses named Vanessa Williams? I guess anything is possible. Just like splicing the DNA of a prehistoric spider with some modern day spiders to grow into several large super spiders.
A remote lab in the mountains of Utah, is experimenting with spiders. But not just any old spiders that you find in the corners of where you live. These are giants. Probably six foot across. At one point in the movie, a skier gets taken out when one of the large spiders grabs them in mid flight after a small jump. It's about the best thing in this movie. It's either that or when the ski coach jumps off the ski lift to shatter his leg.
The plan was to harvest a large amount of spider silk. The silk could be fashioned into armor for military forces. The properties of the silk make it stronger than steel and lighter then most composite materials. Not a bad plan. But to grow the spiders, steroids and other growth hormones were introduced into the spider food. Those extra chemicals made the spiders aggressive and they began attacking the lab technicians and anybody in their path.
I was waiting for the solution of taking out the spiders to be some huge production. But the producers must have spent a hunk of change on the digital spiders, which made the ending weak. As with most other B movies, there are certain lines throughout the movie that are forgettable, but funny. The hero of the day kills a spider with a mounted stag head and proclaims, "Hey, doc! Nice rack."
Gore is at a minimum and zero over-the-top violence. The "evil" professor who is heading up the spider research is not all that evil. In fact, the one kid on the ski team who is supposed to be America's next great hope for an Olympic gold is probably more of a jerk than the professor.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 school buses.
A remote lab in the mountains of Utah, is experimenting with spiders. But not just any old spiders that you find in the corners of where you live. These are giants. Probably six foot across. At one point in the movie, a skier gets taken out when one of the large spiders grabs them in mid flight after a small jump. It's about the best thing in this movie. It's either that or when the ski coach jumps off the ski lift to shatter his leg.
The plan was to harvest a large amount of spider silk. The silk could be fashioned into armor for military forces. The properties of the silk make it stronger than steel and lighter then most composite materials. Not a bad plan. But to grow the spiders, steroids and other growth hormones were introduced into the spider food. Those extra chemicals made the spiders aggressive and they began attacking the lab technicians and anybody in their path.
I was waiting for the solution of taking out the spiders to be some huge production. But the producers must have spent a hunk of change on the digital spiders, which made the ending weak. As with most other B movies, there are certain lines throughout the movie that are forgettable, but funny. The hero of the day kills a spider with a mounted stag head and proclaims, "Hey, doc! Nice rack."
Gore is at a minimum and zero over-the-top violence. The "evil" professor who is heading up the spider research is not all that evil. In fact, the one kid on the ski team who is supposed to be America's next great hope for an Olympic gold is probably more of a jerk than the professor.
I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 school buses.
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