Camel Spiders is a Horror Movie by Jim Wynorski, with Roger Corman serving as the Executive Producer.
While a group of American soldiers, who include Captain Mike Sturges (Brian Kraus) and Sgt. Kelly Underwood (Melissa Brasselle) are engaging a group of (presumably) Taliban in the Middle East, said group are all wiped out by a bunch of giant camel spiders. After the battle, the soldiers have to bring home one of their own who died in the battle. Sadly, no one notices one of the camel spiders climb into the body bag and enter the corpse's mouth.
When they reach American soil, the soldiers get into a car accident that jettisons the casket containing the dead soldier from the truck it was in. While the Captain goes with the local sheriff, Ken Beaumont (C. Thomas Howell) into town to get assistance, the camel spider in the dead soldier's body climbs out and wanders into the desert.
Soon, the countryside is crawling with gigantic spiders that aggressively attack everyone they see. And now the soldiers, and a ragtag bunch of locals and civilians, need to band together to survive them.
The movie was released on March 4th, 2011.
Camel Spiders contains examples of:
- All Webbed Up: When Erin gets to the general store and starts looking for the proprietors, she finds them in the backroom covered in spiderwebs trying to tell her to leave.
- An Arm and a Leg: When the spiders attack one of the people at the facility, several pin a guy down and rip off his arms.
- Artistic License – Biology: One of the ways in which solifuges are distinct from "true spiders" is their inability to produce webs.
- Battering Ram: When the two rich guys refuse to hand over the keys to the gate to their facility, Captain Sturges has Sgt. Underwood ram through the fence gate with their truck, which she does with gusto.
- Boom, Headshot!: One of the soldiers, Schwalb, is killed by a bullet to the head.
- Camera Abuse: During one shot of Camel Spider carnage, blood can be seen splattering the left side of the screen.
- Cellphones Are Useless: When a bunch of people hide in a house from a bunch of spiders, they try to call for help on their cellphones. They don't have any bars.
- Creepy Camel Spider: Naturally. The movie is called "Camel Spiders" for a reason.
- Giant Spider: Camel spiders are already pretty big by themselves. But the ones in the movie can get as big as an adult human's head. Even the smallest ones are the size of a shoe.
- Greasy Spoon: The bulk of the cast are here when it's attacked by the camel spiders.
- Groin Attack: When Trent sees camel spiders around him while he's taking a leak, one rushes him and attaches itself to his crotch.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: When the group is wondering how they can kill the camel spiders, someone suggests they kill their queen... which camel spiders don't have because they're not ants or bees.
- Nightmare Sequence: Captain Sturges has one late in the movie about the spider attack he saw in the Middle East.
- Orifice Invasion: One camel spider is seen climbing into Schwalb's mouth before the body bag can be zipped up.
- The Sheriff: Sheriff Ken Beaumont.
- Too Dumb to Live: When Professor Essex finds a camel spider by a river, he's so fascinated that he decides to walk right up to it rather than keep his distance, even when it starts showing aggression. Naturally, it attacks and kills him.
- Wilhelm Scream: While everyone in the diner is being attacked by camel spiders, one lets out this scream when a camel spider tackles him.
