Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)

Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough ... See full summary »

Director:

Sam Firstenberg

Writers:

Stephen David Brooks (screenplay), Boaz Davidson (story)

Stars:

Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn

Cast

Credited cast:
Stephanie Niznik	...	Alexandra
Greg Cromer	...	Jason
Daniel Quinn	...	Captain Bigelow
Richard Moll	...	Dr. Grbac
Harel Noff	...	Simmons
Yuri Safchev	...	Monroe (as Yuri Savchev)
Dimiter Kuzov	...	Garibaldi
Miroslava Bonjeva	...	Carolyn
Peter Antonov	...	Fernando
Velimer Velev	...	Mime / Spider
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gerald Henderson	...	Waiter

Storyline

Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, loose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicous about the rough treatment and injections given by ship's doctor Gerbac which make the strong man faint, and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broke as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around and finds human bodies on meat hooks, but even Alex thinks he's just hallucinating. Alas while sane Jason is restrained for his 'paranoia', the real madmen are the doc's genetic experiment outfit, who abuse their human captives as live incubators for a giant spider's eggs...

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Plot Keywords:

giant spider | spider | sailing boat | boat | helicopter

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Taglines:

They're back... and this time they're breeding mad!

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and gore, language and nudity

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 May 2001 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Spiders 2

Filming Locations:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nu Image Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Alex and Jason are climbing up the ladder by the ship's side, in one shot the ship's side is in good condition, but in the next shot, it is rusted.

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Connections

References Scarface (1983)

User Reviews

Beyond all levels of entertainment

OK, there are some mad scientists entering a ship and forcing the crew and some more good scientists to experiment with spiders until they become large, blown-up rubber monsters running amok and diminishing the crew one by one until the final showdown.

What could have been a horror classic in 1931 and a trash pearl in 1961 is just a joke in 2001. You wonder how producers can do such a movie in this decade... I really like all kind of trash movies like this, but the story is to thin, the acting just wooden, with only non-screaming heroine Stephanie Niznik showing some acting abilities and sex appeal, and a really dull direction.

The worst of this movie with the great title "Spiders 2" (where have been the first spiders?) is the lack of special effect. While it's rather easy to produce great special effect with today's computer technology, you can see very special effects that where found somewhere beyond the sea probably... a stupidly looking rubber spider that has already been fighting against your Action Man figures back in the seventies, enlarged and dubbed over some ocean pictures... nonsense explosions, unrealistic and really stupid stunts, and smaller or bigger plastic spiders being dragged and pushed all around the burning ship.

You wonder if the actors and crew were on dope all the time, or if they had great fun and a big laugh doing this picture... this could be a logical explanation for this baddie that otherwise has no real reason to exist, except if you're looking for another cheap movie for a retro trash film night with your friends a some cans of lager beer, next to, let's say, Van Damme's "The Order" and "Maura's Sexual Fantasies"... in fact, all these three movies were running on German TV last weekend. Have fun!