Which is just as well.
While there are a small handful of actors who manage to shine even when the script, the rest of the cast, the direction, the budget, etc. are conspiring to bring a movie down, that will never be the same as making a bad movie good. It just means that there may be a few moments between the opening titles and "The End" where it's temporarily less awful.
I can't think of anything ever made that's worth watching solely because [actor name here] is in it. That way disappointment lies, and it's certainly true of Shatner, who played a leading role in some truly execrable flicks.
Including "Kingdom of the Spiders"?
They forgot to say "It was a dark and stormy night!". I'm sure audiences took it seriously enough, but something about it seems unintentionally funny. Despite a slow build-up to an almost predictable conclusion, the ending was still suitably horrific, however. Yeah, maybe it was silly in a way, but do they play it straight - no send-ups - and in a way that actually felt
plausible. That's the best kind of silly.
Gotta admit, the music is great and the extras are doing a genuinely impressive job. Even the rubber spider affixed to the extra's butt. If anything, the lady with the baby carriage would mean something else, if this was too many years past the cusp of the baby boom era. Definitely would be intentional camp had this been made a decade later... and by 1986, they knew how to do remakes right thanks to "The Fly". Both versions are actually quite good, but don't tell anyone since I'm supposed to hate reboots... maybe it's the ratio of successes versus flops. Meh, it's all up to individual taste... like Soylent Green, but I digress again. Something about 70s horror flicks... oh, also see "Pirahna", as it's the only "Jaws" copycat that's any good and it is amazing how well it actually holds up... both of them, rather... They're surprising fun and there's nothing fishy about those two flicks...
To compare, the music here definitely is silly and overdone - especially for the sake of melodrama (yuck), as it's also managing to work
against the acting - in a scene that even I have to admit becomes overly long. Cut to the next scene with the other characters and wait for him to break in or whatever it was. And pass the ritalin too, this movie was too fast-paced... oh wait, it's the other way around...
Spoiler alert: Good casting. Not so sure on the song used as that actually is campy, but good casting!
