#Massive ass movie#
Director Mike Mendez (who also edited) has made a decent looking movie on a low budget, and some of his sequences and shots are intriguing and effective. It's a horror comedy, and there are moments that work in both categories. But this film is crafted with far more love and devotion than the standard Syfy creature of the week movie. Had "Big Ass Spider!" solely been that kind of movie, I would be dismissive rather than disappointed. They're so afraid you're all gonna laugh at it that they fire distracting pre-emptive strikes: "Yes, we KNOW this is bad!" It's a cinematic self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't get me wrong: It's perfectly fine for a genre picture to wink at its audience, but I've grown weary of this new subgenre whose sole existence is to tell you it's in on the joke. It falls far too often into the "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" self-awareness that makes movies like "Sharknado" intolerable.
This is the mindset you must have if you want to get anything out of "Big Ass Spider!" But "Big Ass Spider!" has a big ass problem: It thinks you're better than the material. As Kaufman and his wife enthusiastically answered his questions, I thought of two of my own: "What the hell can those pathetic looking horseshoe crabs do to a person?" and "When can I find out?"
Apparently the guy had written a movie about big ass horseshoe crabs. Kaufman is the president of Troma, the studio whose fans are the target audience for "Big Ass Spider!" (Full disclosure: Not a lot of people showed up.) A filmmaker sitting in my row sought Kaufman's advice on moviemaking. I attended the midnight showing here in New York City, a screening hosted by Lloyd Kaufman. I'm especially fond of vengeance-seeking insects, so this seemed right up my alley.
0 kommentar(er)
