If you loved Kingdom of the Spiders, try The Crazies
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Horror / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Kingdom of the Spiders, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Crazies is
Halfway through a snow-thinned February, the lone traffic light in Evans Mills begins its erratic orange blink. A jogger’s shoes slap wet pavement past the quarantine roadblocks as the National Guard seals the exits. Inside the barricade, police radios spit static while a colonel’s boots crunch broken glass—his orders now meaningless as the town itself starts roaring back at him.

