I enjoyed the opening credits of bright green coming at you while some action western music is playing. The opening scene has a lot of action. US forces are fighting against...Taliban? In Iraqistan or somewhere? One US soldier is killed. The enemy is carried off by BA spiders. The grasp of the spider causes one to shoot their guns aimlessly into the air instead of at the spider. A spider crawls into the mouth of the dead American soldier and makes it back to the US where through a number of plot continuity issues it is released into the Arizona desert. Do we really transport deceased soldiers in wooden crate boxes?The spiders are about the size of a cat. No one steps on them or crushes them. They can outrun a human and leap 6 feet into the air. They are very aggressive and always attack people's head...or crotch in one case. There are a number of groups of people trapped by the spiders, who for some reason hunt humans as pack animals. The spiders appear to be CG as are the flames from the guns.C. Thomas Howell plays the local sheriff and is not the main character. Brian Krause is the main character. The dialouge was unimaginative and boring as were the characters tossed at us.Little girl: "Mom, are we going to die?" Mom: "No we're not going to die. We are going to be just fine. Little girl: "Well, then can you and daddy get back together?"At one point we hear "Technically they are not spiders because they have six legs." If you count the legs: eight. The film reminded me of that old fashion Roger Corman over the top bad scenes. 4 stars is generous. Might work as a rental for the early tween.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Mild swearing, teens making out, rear urination scene, occasional blood squirt.

When you watch a film with a title like "Camel Spiders" and you know that Roger Corman produced it and Jim Wynorski directed it you know exactly what you get. This is a cheesy monster movie, much funnier than the typical SciFi movies so please don't take it much too serious and do not compare it to those zillion Dollar Blockbuster Movies. The spiders look OK, but the CGI blood, well, that's just another story. There are a lot of familiar faces in it. Brian Krause and C. Thomas Howell once had a serious career, now they are regulars in films from the SciFi channel and they're doing a good job here. B-Movie hotties Jessica Cameron and Paula Labaredas have also some very good but much too short appearances.Some funny thoughts on this film: Whenever the spiders attack people they all jump on the people's faces and: whatever happened to the girls who ran away after their guys were killed by the spiders ?If you like cheesy Trash Movies as much as I do you will have a great time watching "Camel Spiders".

A small southwest town finds itself under siege from a lethal array of ferocious camel spiders. While veteran B-flick director Jim Wynorski keeps the familiar, yet still fairly enjoyable story moving at a brisk enough pace and manages to pick things up a bit in the reasonably exciting last third, he alas crucially fails to generate much in the way of tension or creepy atmosphere, stages the spider attack set pieces in a disappointingly flat fashion, only delivers a decent sprinkling of gore, and, most damagingly, doesn't provide any of his patented engaging tongue-in-cheek humor that usually makes his low-budget movies so much cheesy fun to watch. Moreover, the CGI spiders are incredibly shoddy and unconvincing, there's some painfully obvious green screen work throughout, and the annoyingly ridiculous "what the hell?" ending set at a drive-in feels like it was lifted from an altogether different picture, plus the fate of two teenage girls never gets properly resolved. Brian Krause as the rugged Captain Mike Sturges and C. Thomas Howell as drawling good ol' boy Sheriff Ben Beaumont both do okay work. In addition, the presence of several attractive ladies prevent this film from being a complete wash-out: Diana Terranova as the snarky and sarcastic Patty, Rocky DeMarco as the tough Sgt. Shelly Underwood, GiGi Erneta as feisty diner owner Reba, and Jessica Cameron as the spunky and resilient Ashley. Chuck Cirino's bouncy score and Andrea V. Rossotto's competent cinematography are both up to speed. A passable time waster at best.

I am a person who juggles my many music commitments with some free time, which I use to watch movies and listen to music. Save a few tolerable ones, a lot of the SyFy movies are terrible. Camel Spiders is no exception, in fact it is one of SyFy's very worst.As bad as Titanic II, Mega Piranha, 2010: Moby Dick, Battle of Los Angeles and Quantum Apocalypse are, and they are, awful even, Camel Spiders makes them award-worthy in comparison.To begin criticising Camel Spiders would be difficult as there is so much wrong. Let's start with how the film is made, Camel Spiders is one of the cheapest looking of all the SyFy movies right down from the slapdash filming to the gimmicky way the gore and such is used.Camel Spiders completely fails in the script and story too. The script contains some of the worst dialogue I've heard, it was all very forced and cliché-ridden. The story isn't engaging in the least, it was to me a silly premise anyway, but the story itself was bland and predictable with too much time wasted on some of the least interesting story ideas of the movie.The characters I felt indifferent too, they are annoying and underdeveloped and the camel spiders of the title are not menacing at all and laughable in their design. The direction is sloppy, the soundtrack is forgettable, the sound effects sound distorted and are misplaced and the pace is inconsistent with both rushed and pedestrian moments. And need I mention how wooden across the board the acting was? Overall, a terrible movie and one of SyFy's bottom-of-the-barrel type movies. 0/10 Bethany Cox