Arachnid

Arachnid (2001)

It's coming from another world... TO STAY!

Mercer's brother, an amateur pilot, crashes on an island and is killed by a giant spider. A year later, when Mercer goes in search of him, she discovers a breed of venomous arachnids ready to attack.

Date of release
2001-06-29
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Jack Sholder

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Barcelona

Arachnid is a 2001 Spanish natural-horror film directed by Jack Sholder. The film centers on a group of plane crash survivors who has to survive the attacks of a giant alien spider. The film stars Alex Reid, Chris Potter, José Sancho, Neus Asensi and Ravil Isyanov. It was the second film under the Fantastic Factory Label, created by Brian Yuzna and Julio Fernandez in Spain. The film received negative reviews.

Production

Written by Mark Sevi, the script was brought to Yuzna by co-producer Sheri Bryant. Yuzna wanted the Fantastic Factory label to represent different types of horror movies, so he liked the idea of making a monster movie arguing that those movies has no plot elements that would be controversial in any country in the world. The script was re-written by Yuzna and Sevi, adding the little creatures before the giant spider shows up to build tension.

It is the second film under the Fantastic Factory label and the second film to be released by the label in 2001 after Faust: Love of the Damned got released in Spain in January. The film was shot in Barcelona for on-set scenes and Mexico for outdoors scenes from May 15 to July 1, 2000. The main spider design and other creatures practical effects were created by Steve Johnson and his team, XFX. Anthony C.

Brian Yuzna contacted Robert Kurtzman and Tobe Hooper to direct the film but producer Julio Fernández suggested Jack Sholder after watching The Hidden. At that time, Sholder was going to direct a 12 million dollar action film with Steven Seagal but the project fell apart:I was supposed to do another movie, a 12 million dollar action movie with Steven Seagal. While I was trying to get that movie together, they were asking me to do Arachnid.

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