I really enjoy Bert Gordon films (although the apparently necessary middle initial continues to evoke images of Johnny Depp in "Ed Wood" continually insisting on the "D") and this is one is pretty typical. The photography is always good, and the effects are passable.
It may be a difficult point to make, given that we never see the spider's method of consuming the precious bodily fluids it seems to crave, but I think the spider just wanted to be left alone. Perhaps the first victim merely happened along its path during a hunting foray.
It is obvious however, later in the film, after the spider escapes the gym, destroying doorway-ignoring school janitors along the way, the spider simply wants to go home. As he re-enters the cave, you can clearly hear the spider saying, "Ho-ome. I'm ho-ome." If you thought that was an amplified spider's voice, it actually seems to be a human voice, distorted somewhat, so you may have to "undistort" the voice as you're listening.
I feel sorry for the spider, and even until the final scene I was hoping that it would survive man's fury. But alas, it wasn't so. :( Not even glimpses of an egg sac that would have allowed a sequel.
It may be a difficult point to make, given that we never see the spider's method of consuming the precious bodily fluids it seems to crave, but I think the spider just wanted to be left alone. Perhaps the first victim merely happened along its path during a hunting foray.
It is obvious however, later in the film, after the spider escapes the gym, destroying doorway-ignoring school janitors along the way, the spider simply wants to go home. As he re-enters the cave, you can clearly hear the spider saying, "Ho-ome. I'm ho-ome." If you thought that was an amplified spider's voice, it actually seems to be a human voice, distorted somewhat, so you may have to "undistort" the voice as you're listening.
I feel sorry for the spider, and even until the final scene I was hoping that it would survive man's fury. But alas, it wasn't so. :( Not even glimpses of an egg sac that would have allowed a sequel.