Product Details

• Actors: Rob Monkiewicz, Irene Joseph, David Bunce, Bevin McGraw, Alexxus Young
• Directors: Brett Piper
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Mti Home Video
• DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009YXB4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,210 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Arachnia" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Professor of paleontology dr jonathan mugford & a small crew of students on their way to an arizona dig survives a plane crash caused by a meteor shower only to make a mean discovery of their own - mammoth spiders! the same meteorite shower has scared up an ancient breed of over-sized insects! Studio: Mti Productions Release Date: 11/30/2004 Run time: 82 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars CRABpy, July 25, 2006

By	Brainman "Real Name™" (mARS) - See all my reviews

10 Fangs, 8 Legs, 2 Claws, no hair
Maybe they should have called it CRUSTACEA
It's a piece of crab

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good B-movie Fun, September 17, 2003

By A Customer

This is not a great movie, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is capture some of the fun of a B-movie from the '50s and '60s. Thare are two passable performances, but mostly horrible acting. What makes the movie are Brett Piper's stop-motion spiders. If you get the DVD, I recommend only waching it with the commentary track on. It drowns out the bad, boring dialogue and the terrible acting and you learn a little about low-budget filmmaking.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars We Don't Have Drive-In Theaters Anymore, October 21, 2006

By	The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

But, if we did, ARACHNIA would be the second or third movie on the screen.

Yes, it's pretty terrible. The stop-motion animation of the spiders was oddly refreshing in an age of CGI-crazy SFX.

I wish the movie had had more of a sense of humor about it. Not some lame SCARY MOVIE stuff, just some straight-faced winking like the bad drive-in horror movies I grew up on (such as PIRAHNA and the king daddy drive-in classic, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP). They weren't great movies by any means but they delivered good times: cheap scares, rubber monsters, nudity.

I've got to be honest: two of the three stars are for Alexxus Young, the "sci-fi diva" who has her own website. She looks great naked and I commend her for surviving a plane crash into mutant spider land and immediately wanting to strip and bathe. That's the kind of B-movie heroine that makes me stick around for the worst of movies.

I also liked the female lead, a beautiful African American girl who takes charge and completely avoids all stereotypes.

This is a bad movie but it would've been fun on a drive-in screen.
But we don't have drive-in theaters anymore.