Prehistoric spiders, found in Afganistahn, are used in a DNA splicing process with live spiders from this age with their growth secretly altered by a governmental scientist(David Millbern)for their strong silk..a notion conceived by our brain-trust in the secret portion of the government believe this silk can equip soldiers with bullet-proof armor among other things. The spiders are ravenous & bloodthirsty and obviously break free from the secret installation in the mountains where a ski-resort is located. Those tourists, and a team of skiers training for the Olympics, and the ski-resort personnel's lives are in grave danger as these different looking deadly monstrous spiders attack with a vengeance devouring their victims intensely. It'll be up to a past ski-pro(Patrick Muldoon), who trains clients of the resort(..and in charge of teaching the ski-team,as well) how to ski for he seems to be the only levelheaded person around. He befriends Dr. April Summers(Vanessa Williams)who works at the installation, but keeps their work there confidential. But, when she returns to the installation and finds her colleagues' body parts strewn throughout, and one webbed to the wall with his legs removed, she will have to break her wall of silence to save lives. With Muldoon, Summers will have to find a way to stop the spiders which have them barricaded in the lodge, with only a matter of time before the things find a way in. Meanwhile, the ski-team, and the proprietor of the ski-resort(Stephen J Cannell), are stuck in a school bus after an accidental crash, with a black widow spider slowly webbing them inside. The military are trying to find a way to keep from killing the spiders because of specific commands/codes they can not break, but will need Muldoon and Summers assistance. Muldoon and Summers wish to kill the spiders so that their threat to the outside world will be purged. But, our cunning slimy scientist Millbern will do whatever it takes to see his spiders back in the laboratory for more experimental testing.
This is simply another clichéd monster movie where the government screws around with nature leaving the end result of dead innocents attacked by creatures of immense size. The computer effects are as mediocre as always since Sci-Fi Channel productions often do not create realistic enough effects to satisfy. There are some gory bits where limbs lay in cakes of blood as Summers looks at the carnage that ensued from their attempts at merging the DNA of two very different species. These government people will never learn. This contains the same clichéd heroes going through the motions and the same evil scientist who gets his comeuppance. Nothing new here to report, just same-ole-same-ole. The climax with Muldoon being chased down a slope with one hand while the other is carrying a torch producing heat to antagonize the spiders so that they will become trapped by the military waiting down hill is preposterous. And, the twist with a possible cover-up after all that has taken place is pure rubbish. I mean, there's no way anybody could cover up that much carnage.
This is simply another clichéd monster movie where the government screws around with nature leaving the end result of dead innocents attacked by creatures of immense size. The computer effects are as mediocre as always since Sci-Fi Channel productions often do not create realistic enough effects to satisfy. There are some gory bits where limbs lay in cakes of blood as Summers looks at the carnage that ensued from their attempts at merging the DNA of two very different species. These government people will never learn. This contains the same clichéd heroes going through the motions and the same evil scientist who gets his comeuppance. Nothing new here to report, just same-ole-same-ole. The climax with Muldoon being chased down a slope with one hand while the other is carrying a torch producing heat to antagonize the spiders so that they will become trapped by the military waiting down hill is preposterous. And, the twist with a possible cover-up after all that has taken place is pure rubbish. I mean, there's no way anybody could cover up that much carnage.