Lavalantula

Lavalantula is an American 2015 science-fiction horror thriller television film directed by Mike Mandez and starring Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples and Patrick Renna. It premiered on Syfy on July 25, 2015.

Plot

A-List Actor Colton West has an argument with Darren the film director, and storms off in his car. An earthquake hits, and Colton sees the Santa Monica Mountains erupt, spewing lava bombs. A fire spitting spider the size of a man, comes out of the car in front of him. Colton runs and manages to drive out of the traffic back onto the main road to escape.

Colton gets home, and tells his wife Olivia about the giant spiders and tells her they need to leave. He takes the shotgun from his house and drives off in his car to find his son Wyatt.

Wyatt is out with his friends Jordan, Eli and Travis, they hear an explosion and see lots of smoke in the distance, and go to investigate. The teenagers find the source of the explosion is a sink hole. Spiders come out of the hole spitting fire and start attacking people, the teenagers flee to a warehouse. But Eli gets caught by a spider and is killed.

Colton’s car gets damaged when he hits a lava sink hole. He gets out and finds a tour bus full of people further up the road. He tricks the driver and manages to steal the bus. As he is driving a spider jumps onto the bus. He brakes heavily and the spider falls off the front of the bus, then he runs it over. The front of the tour bus starts dissolving due to the blood of the spider. Colton stops the bus and evacuates it just before it blows up.

A spider comes down the chimney in Olivia’s house but she manages to shoot it. The army starts moving into the city, and they rescue Olivia from her house.

Colton manages to get a lift from his friend, Pirate Jack a film stunt man. Jack’s car gets a puncture after hitting a lava vein in the road. Spiders start coming out of sink holes and chase them into a museum. They meet a scientist in the museum, who is researching the spiders and the volcano. He works out that the spiders are causing the volcanic eruptions, and that the only way to stop them it to kill the Queen spider.

A spider gets in through a window in the warehouse where the teenagers are hiding and tries to attack them. Wyatt fights the spider with a fire extinguisher. The girl who was burnt earlier, has a fit and dies. Then loads of baby spiders crawl out of her as she catches fire. The baby spiders then attack Travis, setting him on fire and killing him. Wyatt runs to the roof of the warehouse where he manages to get a phone signal and texts Colton telling him where he is.

The spiders attack the army truck Olivia is in, she hides under a fire blanket as they breath fire inside the truck. The soldiers are all killed. Olivia kills the spider and drives off in the army truck, to try and find Colton.

Meanwhile the spiders manage to break into the museum. Jack is killed, but Colton manages to get away. Olivia finds Colton and they drive off to rescue Wyatt.

Wyatt climbs off the roof of the warehouse, and is attacked by a spider. Olivia and Colton arrive and run over the spider with the Army truck. Colton realizes that liquid nitrogen can be used to fight the spiders. They all go to the special effects store, where Colton finds his colleagues from the film set.

Colton makes a plan to kill the queen spider with a liquid nitrogen bomb, made using items from the special effects store. He leaves with his film crew, to drop the bombs into the queen’s underground chamber. They plant the bombs around the chamber and detonate them. Lots of spiders come out of sinkholes to the surface. The film crew shoot them all. Then the giant queen spider comes to the surface. Colton uses a jet pack from the film set and flies off a building towards the queen spider. He manages to drop a nitrogen bomb into the spiders mouth, which blows up killing the spider and saving the city.

Cast

• Steve Guttenberg as Colton West, a former A-List actor
• Nia Peeples as Olivia West, Colton West's wife
• Patrick Renna as Chris, a tourist
• Michael Winslow as Marty, part of the film crew
• Marion Ramsey as Teddie, part of the film crew
• Leslie Easterbrook as Doris, Olivia's friend
• Ralph Garman as Pirate Jack, an ex-film stunt man
• Noah Hunt as Wyatt West, Colton West's son
• Diana Hopper as Jordan, a friend of Wyatt
• Time Winters as Dr. Eric Von Struble, a scientist
• Ian Ziering as Fin Shepard, main character from Sharknado
• Zac Goodspeed as Travis, a friend of Wyatt
• Ben Snowden as Eli, a friend of Wyatt

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an average rating of 2.7/5 as of June 11, 2017.^[1] Hellhorror gave the film an average rating of 6/10 as of June 11, 2017.^[2] Wickedhorror gave the film an average rating of 5/10 as of June 11, 2017.^[3]

Sequel

A sequel to Lavalantula called 2 Lava 2 Lantula was announced by Syfy on July 28, 2015.^[4] Some of the cast from the original film returned for the sequel, including Steve Guttenburg, Marion Ramsey and Michael Winslow. 2 Lava 2 Lantula premiered on Syfy on August 6, 2016.^[5]

References

External Links

• Lavalantula on IMDb