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Summary: A really funny and suprisingly great movie!
Review: I for one wasn't necessarily turned away at all by the trailers nor the odd title of this movie so I had almost no chance of seeing it on the big screen due to financial problems and also other movies of that time drew my attention elsewhere. When a friend rented this to watch one night, I decided to watch this movie with them expecting a snoozer of a dud because I had only modest expectations for this movie. What I have to say is that I was DEAD WRONG! This movie is absolutely a fun riot of a movie. In just about every way, "Eight Legged Freaks" is a homage tribute to the numerous monster alien movies of the 1950s and 1960s. It has all of the odd eccentric styles of the 50s and has a bizarre sense of humor as well. If you miss the witty fun of movies of that classic era, then "Eight Legged Freaks" is the movie for you as it takes the classic monster movie style and gives it a modern update. The tagline is just funny. It goes like this: You hate spiders? You really hate spiders? Well they don't like you either! In a lot of ways, I can agree on this eighty percent of the time. In this case, a sleepy town in the desert Southwest goes about it's dull life of existence. The town's Prodigal son is fighting against greedy developers from building a vast shopping center in the town. However, over time, a major toxic chemical spill releases radioactive toxins into the local town river and the little domestic house spiders that came in contact with the contaminated water mutate from small black widow spiders into horrendous giant poisonous spiders over ten feet tall and the giant spiders wreak havoc all over the the town's population, preying on human after human to get revenge on all of the spiders that the humans killed over the years. With the help of a local town Sheriff and the whole town's population, Liberty, Arizona must band together in order to wage war against the gargantuan spiders before they decimate the town's people and spread from there to the rest of the United States and possibly the world and terrorizing people over there as well.
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Summary: Not so much scary as it is entertaining.
Review: Just a fun to watch movie about creepy-crawlers. Lots of action and adventure, pretty good special effects. Some comedy to lighten the load, David Arquette is good in his roll. I highly recommend for a look see.
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Summary: Super spiders running amok
Review: Tons of fun, this tongue in cheek flick has enough laughs, cartoonish death and all around feel good heroics to make it a worthy collectible for those that want a modern twist on the 1950's pulp monsters. Arquette is funny and seems to be having a good time.
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Summary: 2002 was not a great year for Warners.....
Review: 2002 was a bad year for Warner brothers. They were still no closer to doing a movie based on a DC comics hero, but Marvel was having their time of their lives with the great success that was Spider-Man, so Warners started a mean sprited (and rather patheic) campain to do this movie and have it make fun of Spidey at every turn. They even turned the movie into a DC Comics adaptation (scripted by Marv Wolfman) which ran in comic book stores at the time the movie was made, and brother that made them look even more worse. The movie itself is disguisting and has no script, it dropped Warner Brothers down to a level of no class that it still has not recovered from and almost makes you wish that Bugs Bunny was owned by a different studio.
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Summary: Should've played it straight.
Review: I bought this dvd without having ever seen it and it was an ok movie, but they should've played it as a straight forward horror movie. It could've been great without all the extremely cartoonish sound effects, but they went for laughs and that was a mistake. As it is, this movie is ok if you have some time to waste but it is nothing special. Bottom line, it's worth watching once.
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Summary: Excellent and funny
Review: An excellent homage to the "big bug" movies of the 1950s, and I thought the spiders' vocalizations in the street scenes were hilarious.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: The first time i heard a movie called "Eight legged freaks" i thought it was some comedy show with spiders in it, mostly because of the word "Freaks", but when i saw it on TV i couldn't even bother jerking my head away from the screen when my mom came in asking what i wanted for dinner. I'm not arachnaphobic at all and i would personally LOVE to be the guy at the beginning with a "spider zoo", i like to bring around my spider that i found downstairs, it's about the size of a quarter, and scare people with it. Anyways, my favorite parts of the movie are when all those spiders are chasing the guys on motorcycles, and when they all get blasted apart at the end. It pretty much lets you know what it would be like to be a bug, except there's not an army of spiders chasing after you. Also, correct me if i'm wrong, i don't think spiders really wrap their prey like that.
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Summary: ITSY BITSY SPIDERS - NO WAY!!!!
Review: Any movie that allows its humongous spiders to "talk" has to have something going for it. I loved the way the spiders made little noises while in pursuit and how they did their "ugghs" and such when they were killed. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS supplies just what you want. An update of those delightfully tacky B movies of the fifties. (Remember Leo G. Carroll getting his come-uppance in "Tarantula?").
The movie's effects are wonderful, both chilling and hilarious. The cast is as "bad" as a movie like this should be. David Arquette is stonefaced and properly heroic; Kari Wuhrer is stone-faced and properly sexy; the rest of the cast does their thing in the manner to which one hopes they would.
If you have a phobia of spiders, this movie definitely should get under your skin.
It was fun to watch! Bring on the Milk Duds!!!! RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: Two-star movie, four-star DVD equals three stars overall
Review: Yet another example of an overall DVD package outshining the movie that's supposed to be its centerpiece. "Eight Legged Freaks" is certainly watchable, primarily due to the good spider effects, but the plot is so simple-minded (essentially it can be summed up as "watch the spiders chase the people"), that things become tiring before too long. But the DVD extras are fun, especially the black & white 13-minute film from New Zealand, "Larger Than Life", which inspired "Eight Legged Freaks", and a nice little text article about other "big bug" movies. So, while the main film had me repeatedly looking at my wall clock about an hour into it, I quickly perked up again when I started zipping through the extras after the movie was over. Gotta love DVD.
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Summary: I wish I saw this in theaters cuz this was a good movie
Review: When 8 Legged Freaks first came out, I thought it was pretty stupid mainly because of the idea of giant spiders. Then this movie came on a movie came on a cinemax channel and I decided to watch it to see how it was and I liked it! Before I go on, let me state that this is not a scar movie, it is an action movie. I loved seeing David Arquette and others battling against an invasion of mutated spiders. I especially loved the quote, "GET BACK YOU EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS!". Anyway, here is the movies plot.
An illegal operation of hiding toxic wastes inside mines is being one in a small Arizona town. On one shipment of the toxics, one barrel falls into a swamp and a museum of spiders is right next to the swamp. The spiders one day escape the museum and smtime after they grow to enormous sizes. The only person who starts to realize what may happen is a little boy named Mike Parker (Scott Terra) who is basically a kid that is really into spiders. But it seems that nobody believes cuz he is a kid. Later a guy named Chris (David Arquette) starts to believe what the kid said. Chris is a guy who recently returned to that Arizona town after ten yrs. He returns only to stop the town's mayor from basically selling the whole town's business' so he can get rich and everybody will be unemployed. He is also their because he has always had a crush on Mike's mom, Samantha (Kari Wuhrer ) who happens to be the town's sheriff but Chris is too shy to tell her. Chris starts to believe Mike's theory when he finds something that appears to be a spider leg except that it is about 3 feet long. Soon everbody learns about the giant spiders and now it is up to the town's people to stop these giant before they create havoc around the world.
Anyway this overall was a good movie. It filled with action and has a twist of comedy in it. I'm definitely getting this when it comes out.
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