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Eight Legged Freaks
Let the squashing begin!
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
- Original title
- Eight Legged Freaks
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Revenue
- $45,900,000
John Chard
Sep 16, 2015 · via TMDB
Arach Attack! Spiders escape from a spider farm in Prosperity, Arizona, and become giant man eating beasts on account of toxic waste carelessly dumped in a near by river. Can the odd ball inhabitants of this Arizona town escape with their lives? Or will spiders rule the earth and lay waste to man kind? Eight Legged Freaks is unashamedly homaging B movie creature features from the 1950s. The likes of Tarantula and Them! have their Pedipalps well and truly watered, in what is possibly the most undervalued of all the modern day creature feature homages. Having no pretensions what so ever, the only real thing not in "Freaks" favour is the usage of CGI, but even that doesn't hurt the film, if anything it adds to the obvious preposterous nature of the genre. I mean how else are we to get 20 foot jumping spiders chowing down on some annoying teenager? Perhaps "Freaks" is viewed harsh because the cast is relatively C list? Again that is a genre staple, surely? For what it's worth I think they do real fine, David Arquette has oodles of goofy charisma, Kari Wuher makes a fine female ass kicker, and the kids (one a young Scarlett Johansen) are really rather cool. Director Ellory Elkayem, who after doing They Nest in 2000 clearly has bug issues, adheres to genre staples. Kooky western town out in the desert, the inhabitants of which range from near loonies to dopey politicians, and the plot follows the traditional sense of impending doom played for laughs. Listen out for the score from John Ottman, which plays on variants of "Itsy Bitsy Spider", whilst cast a keen eye on John S. Bartley's Arizona camera work. Whilst not having the savvy scripting of homage daddy, Tremors, or the star appeal of 1990's Arachnophobia, Eight Legged Freaks deserves its place amongst such fun and creepy company. As the tag line says, "Do you hate spiders? Do you really hate spiders? Well they don't like you either". With that, I think it's web well and truly spun, don't you? 7/10
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David Arquette
Chris McCormick
Kari Wührer
Samantha Parker
Doug E. Doug
Harlan Griffith
Scarlett Johansson
Ashley Parker
Rick Overton
Pete Willis
Matt Czuchry
Bret
Riley Smith
Randy
Leon Rippy
Wade
Randi Klein
Waitress #1
Scott Terra
Mike Parker
Eileen Ryan
Gladys
Jane Edith Wilson
Emma
John Storey
Mark
John Ennis
Cop #1
Tom Noonan
Joshua Taft (uncredited)
Anna Foerster
Additional Photography
Alix Friedberg
Costume Design
Lewis Arquette
In Memory Of
Charlie Brewer
Stunt Coordinator
Andy Gill
Stunts
James M. Churchman
Stunts
John Hateley
Stunts
Ellory Elkayem
Director
Lars P. Winther
First Assistant Director
Paul F. Bernard
Second Assistant Director
Roland Emmerich
Executive Producer
Bruce Berman
Producer
Dean Devlin
Producer
Daryl C. Lefever
Production Accountant
Jessica Clements
Music Coordinator
John Ottman
Original Music Composer
Casey Stone
Scoring Mixer
Ellory Elkayem
Screenplay
Ellory Elkayem
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