Pedestrian is the word for this (ironic, considering it features something with eight legs)

I don't rate a film when I haven't seen the whole thing - but I'll review the first hour of this (because that's all I could sit through). I'm a die-hard horror fan. There have been some real unexpected gems amongst the lower-budget end of the market over the years. Not here. The plot centers around a single mother and her young son and daughter, who move into an old mansion where they're stalked by an evil entity in the form of a giant spider. The first hour is almost unbearably slow. Lots of fakeouts where you expect to see the spider - and then don't, and a plot that hardly moves at all. By the time we hit that hour mark, the total plot development up to then could have been done in about twenty minutes - and STILL have been called a 'slow-burn'. As for the teases of the spider, Jaws did the same thing - but the difference there is that you FEEL the shark's presence. Not here. And once they do show a few glimpses (mainly in shadow), there's no sense of menace (other than the natural revulsion some might feel just because 'It's a spider!!!'). No sense of danger. Nothing to keep me for the final half hour (and it's unusual for me to bail on a movie, especially when I'm two thirds in).

Bruce Davison heads the cast. Second billed is Denise Crosby (almost unrecognisable from her time as Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation). Davison is his usual, reliable self (I guess he was thinking of his pension when he signed on). Crosby is okay. Arman Darbo is pretty good as the young boy - he could have a reasonable career ahead of him. Otherwise it is entirely forgettable.