Pest exterminator Alex Mathis finds himself in hospital after a neurotic customer gets him bitten by a venomous spider. Alex is a glass half full kind of guy, but he's also got an empty wallet. So when the hospital mortician reports that something that "looked like a spider, except it was too big" just bit him, Alex volunteers for a little quid pro quo action. He'll get rid of the critter in exchange for them writing off his bill.
As you can tell from the image above, Alex just took on a much bigger job than he thinks. The football-sized spider he's initially chasing is not at all an ordinary arachnid, and it's going to grow very big, very fast.
About twenty minutes into watching Big Ass Spider!, I had to take a moment to tweet my confusion over how well done it was. I was expecting something of the level of an Asylum creature feature: and as much as I adore Gatoroid vs Mega-Python, I don't pretend it's well made. Big Ass Spider!, however, seemed to be put together by people who actually cared about what they were doing.
As it turns out, the back half of this film doesn't quite hold up to the fun of that initial twenty minutes. Pretty much as soon as the spider gets big enough to openly attack humans in large numbers, that's about all it does, which is a tad repetitive and takes away some of the charm. Still, it's not a long film so it doesn't overstay its welcome.
If you're in the mood for a goofy bit of giant monster fun, you would do a lot worse. I certainly have, many times!
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