Review: I Spyders - A Creepy and Unsettling Short Film

[Kyle Wilson]

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Cinema Crazed | March 18, 2012
by Felix Vasquez Jr. (http://www.cinema-crazed.com/h-q/i-spyders.htm)

Preparing to go in to festivals soon enough, I was able to get a hold
of "I Spyders" through online means and I'm glad that I did. "I
Spyders" is quite possibly one of the most skin crawling and yet
unabashedly demented short films you'll see in a while. This is one of
the few short films that manages to have a spider wrangler on set, and
when they can acquire an actual wrangler, you know the director is at
least trying hard to get his point across. That's called effort,
filmmakers. That's the word for this review. "I Spyders" isn't so much
a horror movie in the traditional sense, but its premise is very much
horrific. Especially for anyone who is an avid arachnophobe. I'm not,
but I found my skin crawling through much of what proceeds and found
myself gagging because the plot is very likely to happen with shoddy
customs and whatnot.

A local office that sells... something, is downsizing its staff of
three, and the boss Dave is very nonchalantly revealing to his two
staff members that he's cutting their jobs once their contracts expire
in the month. As a consolation prize, he offers up his prize grapes to
worker John and in the middle of the night the stray spider lurking
within the bunch crawls in to John's ear laying eggs.


"I Spyders" offers up the theory that perhaps what happens in the
middle of the night may not be what's happening to poor John, as he
returns to work with a tick in his ear and a definite bit of psychosis
that he manages to carry through many episodes where he confronts boss
Dave's passive aggression. Through this time John experiences a
metamorphosis that guides him through a day to day mental breakdown
and inevitably comedic finale that perhaps features him grasping his
mental instability. The finale is just about as demented and utterly
mind blowing as I expected as director William Allison leaves nothing
to the imagination, answering our questions about the spiders, and
where they all went in poor John. With strong performances bordering
on brilliant, "I Spyders" ends on a sick, truly stomach turning note,
and I loved it.

Very good performances carry a truly sick and disturbed short horror
comedy that will tickle the fancy of anyone truly horrified of spiders
and make them re-consider falling in to a deep sleep with fruit
nearby. Look for this in local festivals and be in awe at its sheer
ballsy climax.