But to be perfectly fair, it could just as easily be a movie about a spider who simply has a bit of junk in the trunk. The kind of arachnid Sir Mix-a-Lot would find particularly compelling, if you will. But no, in reality, Big Ass Spider! No one would mistake it for VFX in a conventional summer blockbuster, but its interactions with the skyscrapers of downtown L. Our hero is Alex Greg Grunberg , an everyman exterminator and would-be lothario with a heart of gold. Hospitalized by a surprisingly trivial brown recluse bite, he immediately stumbles onto a much more serious arachnid situation, as a misplaced, never fully explained body belonging to the military arrives and immediately disgorges a deadly spider the size of a teacup poodle. His comic timing and chemistry with Alex are honestly impeccable, elevating just about every scene where he appears. The relative lack of filler is another factor that sets Big Ass Spider! It has a motor on it, propelling itself through its under minute runtime without ever taking a breath or pausing for an extended bit of boring exposition or pseudo-science babble, a staple of creature features.
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Big Ass Spider! The film tells the story of a bug exterminator, who, with the help of a hospital security guard and the military, battles a giant spider that goes on a rampage in Los Angeles. Alex Mathis is a cash-strapped but good-natured exterminator working in Los Angeles. While helping an elderly woman with a rodent problem, he is bitten by a venomous spider and is treated at a hospital.
In addition to having an "Airplane! That's what you paid to see, and you already know if you want to see it, if you share my love for nature-gone-amuck horror movies, a love that arrived the day I saw " Food of the Gods " at the drive-in with my parents. I'm especially fond of vengeance-seeking insects, so this seemed right up my alley.