Blood Monkey/In The Spider’s Web (Genius/RHI/DVD-Video)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C+     Extras: D     Telefilms: C-

 

 

With so many Horror titles on the shelves, a glut like nothing seen before is upon us.  Like most gluts, the product is usually lame, including TV movies.  RHI Entertainment has issued two of their thrown-together telefilms, separately on DVD with no extras.  F. Murray Abraham is stuck in Blood Money, trying to hunt down the title killer, but after the Peter Jackson King Kong, wow is this silly.  It’s only saving grace is how wacky Abraham’s performance gets as he easily outacts the rest of the cast.

 

Lance Henriksen turns up in In The Spider’s Web as an arachno-expert as a bunch of nature-lovers find themselves attacked.  Of course, killer spider’s usually fear big cities, which is likely the reason (and not lower budgets in the middle of nowhere) they never attack outside of jungles.  And yes, the locals love the little killers, so its there fault too.

 

The 1.33 X 1 image on both is soft, has color limits, is shot poorly, has depth issues and edge enhancement throughout.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo on both sounds too compressed for its own good, but is still better than the picture by default.  You can  imagine why there are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo