Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
5.7 /10
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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.
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... Chris McCormick
... Sheriff Samantha Parker
... Harlan Griffith
... Ashley Parker
... Deputy Pete Willis
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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
Director:
Writer:
Ellory Elkayem (Screenplay)
Ellory Elkayem (Story)
Jesse Alexander (Screenplay)
Randy Kornfield (Story)
Release Date:
2002-07-17
Run Time:
99 min
MMPA Rating:
PG-13
Reviews of
Eight Legged Freaks
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
Cast & Crew of
Eight Legged Freaks
Cast
... Chris McCormick
... Sheriff Samantha Parker
... Harlan Griffith
... Ashley Parker
... Deputy Pete Willis
... Bret
... Randy
... Wade
... Waitress #1
... Waitress #2
... Mike Parker
... Gladys
... Emma
... Amos
... Floyd
... Leon
... Larry
... Mark
... Leroy
... Norman
... Cop #1
... Cop #2
... Self
... Joshua Taft (uncredited)
Crew
... Producer
... Executive Producer
... Casting
... Production Coordinator
... Producer
... Original Music Composer
... Stunt Coordinator
... Sound Effects Editor
... Key Hair Stylist
... Sound Effects Editor
... Unit Production Manager
... Co-Producer
... Production Design
... Art Direction
... Makeup Department Head
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Makeup Effects
... Orchestrator
... Set Decoration
... Costume Design
... Music Supervisor
... Executive Producer
... Director of Photography
... Screenplay
... Director
... Story
... Screenplay
... Executive Producer
... Story
... Conductor
... In Memory Of
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Color Timer
... Additional Photography
... ADR Recordist
... ADR Mixer
... Foley
... Additional Music
... Casting
... Stunts
... Sound Effects Editor
... Musician
... Visual Effects Coordinator
... Production Accountant
... Casting Associate
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Construction Coordinator
... Carpenter
... Editor
... Boom Operator
... First Assistant Director
... Foley Artist
... Music Editor
... Sound Effects Editor
... Sound Editor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Steadicam Operator
... Makeup Artist
... Sound Effects Editor
... Visual Effects Editor
... Still Photographer
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Costume Supervisor
... Key Set Costumer
... Art Department Coordinator
... Property Master
... Leadman
... Set Designer
... Special Effects Coordinator
... Animation Supervisor
... Visual Effects Producer
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Camera Operator
... Camera Operator
... Set Costumer
... First Assistant Editor
... Script Supervisor
... Studio Teachers
... Unit Publicist
... Location Manager
... Costumer
... Hairstylist
... Visual Effects Compositor
... Second Assistant Director
... Scoring Mixer
... Special Effects Technician
... Standby Painter
... First Assistant Camera
... Key Grip
... Craft Service
... Digital Effects Supervisor
... Driver
... Picture Car Coordinator
... Post Production Supervisor
... Propmaker
... Set Medic
... Set Production Assistant
... Transportation Captain
... Production Sound Mixer
... Sound Engineer
... Digital Compositors
... Special Effects Supervisor
... Storyboard Artist
... Stunts
... Negative Cutter
... Assistant Property Master
... Set Dresser
... Animal Wrangler
... Underwater Gaffer
... Assistant Production Coordinator
... 3D Artist
... Assistant Editor
... Music Coordinator
... Visual Effects Production Assistant
... Compositing Supervisor
... First Assistant Accountant
... Assistant Camera
... Second Assistant Camera
... Extras Casting
... Production Assistant
... Production Secretary
... Stunts
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