Spider in the Attic (2021) User Reviews

Another dubious spider movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 7 November 2021]

I stumbled upon the 2021 horror movie titled "Spider in the Attic" from writers Scott Jeffrey and Rhys Waterfield by sheer random chance. And I must admit that the movie's cover/poster actually seemed interesting and the movie's synopsis also sounded interesting. And being an avid horror fan and liking things with monstrously big spiders, of course I had to watch "Spider in the Attic".

Needless to say that I wasn't really harboring much of any hopes or expectations for "Spider in the Attic", given the fact that the majority of creature features out there with large spiders tend to be dubious movies at best. But still, I opted to watch this 2021 movie from director Scott Jeffrey.

First, I have to say that that the movie's cover is false advertisement, as the spiders in the movie look nothing like what is depicted here. So that was a massive disappointment. And truth be told, then the movie's cover/poster was sadly the best part about this entire movie.

The storyline told in "Spider in the Attic" was simplistic, but it was adequate in its own rights. So you are not in for a grand horror cinema experience from writers Scott Jeffrey and Rhys Waterfield. However, the characters were bland and the written dialogue was questionable.

"Spider in the Attic" has spiders, well spider-like creatures. First, as I mentioned above, they look nothing like what is shown on the cover. And the spiders in the movie were CGI animated, of course, but poorly CGI animated, I might have to add. The spider design looks extraterrestrial in appearance, which was what the storyline also hinted at, but you can't put one type of arachnid on the cover and present something else to the audience entirely.

The movie had a cast ensemble of actresses and actors all unknown to me. And that is usually something I enjoy in movies, but the performances of the ones in "Spider in the Attic" were just bland and lacking drive and energy. But of course, with the subpar script, lousy characters and dialogue, of course the actresses and actors had little to work with.

Director Scott Jeffrey delivered a disappointing movie with "Spider in the Attic", no doubt about that. And this is not a creature feature that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Especially since the movie's cover/poster was the best thing about the ordeal, and that spider is not even in the movie.

My rating of "Spider in the Attic" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Actors had potential but Direction and Script were just plain stupid!

[REDMAN084 · 2/10 · 24 December 2021]

I only write reviews when absolutely compelled. My sorrow goes out to the actors because they all showed potential and were likeable/dis-likeable based on their roles. I would have given them more points but someone needed to smack the directors and scream "Seriously, Come on, please let me act, give me a real line." Unfortunately, they were directed to say the dumbest/worst lines possible throughout the movie and were not allowed to act out the scenes with any realism. Example: Lots of men and women lose their minds/wits when they see just one tiny spider. Here are half a dozen women who barely react when they see creatures which resemble giant spiders with tails and teeth. If you decide to watch, it will be painful as you will see the actors make the exact opposite decision even the most idiotic person would have handled better in every possible scenario. We are all used to seeing the one or two actors in the script required to die for a good scare or because they are the villains; however, when all of the actors repeatedly make dumb decisions, over and over, from beginning to end, it makes you realize it's not the actors fault. There was one rediculous sequencing error where one of the lead actors saw a spider the size of a 40lb dog and then never mentioned to the other actors, instead she went on as if the only spider in the house was the one in a glass aquarium which was 25% the size. One of the worst directed movies I've seen, lots of wasted potential even with the limited CGI.

YIKES!! The acting is more Scary than the Spiders! :O

[midnitepantera · 2/10 · 8 November 2021]

I suffer from arachnophobia and this movie gave the the willies a bit. Mostly the HUGE cobwebs that none of the actors seem to notice. LOL The FX weren't great and I don't know if that was a spider or a scorpion or a bat???

The story could have been interesting, but the writing was dull filled with STUPID character actions and the acting was horrific and the ending was beyond lame. Maybe you fans of BAD Schlocky horror will enjoy watching and laughing at this movie. But if your a serious horror fan, then just PASS on this, cause it really has no BITE! :(

Awful just awful

[tk_sassy · 1/10 · 13 November 2021]

Horrible cgi, horrible acting, horrible everything.

Don't do it, avoid at all costs.

Go for a walk, resort your underwear drawer, just do anything but watch this horrible, awful and incredibly boring film.

The spiders come home to roost

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 18 March 2022]

Linda (Nicola Wright) is a true crime show host suffering from poor ratings. Her daughter Lucy (Sarah Alexandra Marks) has a line on a man who did biological experiments that were over the top. A group of people goes out to interview Dr. Zizerman who we saw get killed by his spider-like creature in the opening scene. We discover he was using alien DNA he got from the Nazis and combined it with a host. The group struggle against the critters that are in far more places than the attic.

This is a British film. It has characters that are poorly developed. The internal frictions didn't catch hold and the spiders-like creatures looked vulnerable but somehow could only be killed by extreme means.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Bad in every possible way

[kaefab · 1/10 · 6 November 2021]

You know a movie like this is gonna fail when the FX are terrible.

Even all those hot girls could not save this awful movie sadly bad at everything acting script story etc.

THE ENDING!

[flames-50457 · 2/10 · 14 November 2021]

I only created this account so I can say. WHAT THE HELL KIND OF ENDING WAS THAT!!!! The whole moved was hyped to the big guy at the end. Then Bam, It ends!!

Makers didn't get the spider concept

[gekkepoppetje · 2/10 · 7 November 2021]

A spider is creepy because it's creepy. The makers did not realize that a spider is a winning team already. They have tried to make the spiders more creepy. As a result the spiders became laughable. Haha.

Coming from a person with a fear of spiders

[bboudreau-72101 · 2/10 · 22 October 2021]

I'll admit, I was scared s#%^*less in the first scene because the thought of looking at a spider of film terrified me. Once I worked up the courage and actually looked up, seeing the terrible SG spiders calmed my nerves. Bad acting and bad plot also helped ruin it. Gave it a two for the initial shock. There are better things to watch.

For A Viewer With Arachnophobia, The CGI Spiders Aren't Scary

[Camelot_2000 · 1/10 · 23 July 2023]

I admit I do suffer from arachnophobia and always get a chill whenever creepy crawlies are the main feature in a film. I got totally freaked out when I went and saw "Arachnophobia" at the theater back in 1990. That cunning and sly spider featured in that film totally horrified me. I didn't feel anything here though. I mean, how scary are spiders that are clearly CGI?! The stupidity of the characters also play a role.

A group of ladies, with one of them on the edge of pregnancy along with her boyfriend, go investigate a large remote manor in the British countryside. They want to launch an exploitation news report to gather ratings and find the juice they're looking for, but put their own lives in peril in the process. There are spiderwebs all over the place in that large manor and the discovery that a large mutant spider is on the loose on the premises. Did that stop them? No, of course not. They prowl around and look under beds and cautiously open doors to other rooms to find the beast(s).

The thought never occurred to them to leave that manor, but no, they stay put and then chaos erupts. The pregnant woman, of course, goes into labor during the tense moments and, of course, has an encounter with one of the evil arachnids. It's an anguishing and terrifying ordeal for them all with the spiders never seeming to attack. I guess it's because they're all CGI and harmless.

This is a lame horror movie with barely any action. The spiders aren't menacing at all and don't leap and bite like in other films. They're just spotted while the characters wither in terror and then run to escape them. They might as well have put put cartoon spiders drawn by elementary school students into the film instead. That would've had a better impact.

Really bad CGI destroy this movie.

[ropipgi-581-487166 · 2/10 · 10 October 2022]

The actors are doing their best with what they got, and the script throw in some real world problems to make us like the characters.

However, they have no idea on how to write characters in crisis, and that make everyone behave like.

We have a situation where we have a big deadly animal in a house we are in - what to do next ?

Well, they make all stupid choices from there on and with that all sympathy for the characters goes out the window.

Then we have the CGI. Someone saw that and thought it was ok ?

We are talking 2001 PS2 CGI here.

I however liked the ending.

I would really like a sequel with bigger budget taking off from there...