Spider Island | Film Review

 

When a group of influencers travel to a secluded island, they find themselves having to fight for their lives against deadly spiders.

I was really excited to see this film. Sometimes with creature features, the worse they are, the more fun they are to watch, and this one looked like it would be so bad it's good!

I had a great time with this movie. It was as bad as I was expecting, in the best way.

It starts in exactly the way I'd imagine an influencer holiday event. The acting wasn't amazing but I did believe all the characters the actors were playing.

It's great that some of the actors were real influencers - it would have been fun if this was the makeup of the entire cast.

You're on edge from the very beginning.

There is a good ratio of spider sightings and attacks. Sometimes, with movies like this, the focus is too much on the characters and not enough on the creatures - this one had a good mix, though I still would have liked to see more of the creatures.

It does try too hard to make us care about the characters, or to give us tragic backstories and family trauma that we don't really care about. And even with that, I couldn't tell you the name of one character. There was no need to try and make this emotional!

The sound is as effective as the images, if not moreso. The scuttling of the spiders is so intense you can't even close your eyes to escape!

I did want a more satisfying conclusion, but I didn't really expect one.

Overall, this film was badly written and acted, but it was so much fun. I'd definitely recommend it to any fans of 'so bad it's good' horror movies.

3/10