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Summary: Eight Legged FUN!!!
Review: The almost dead in the dust mining town of Prosperity, Arizona gets a wake-up jolt when a barrel of toxic waste causes the inhabitants of an exotic spider farm to grow to huge, and very hungry, proportions. Director Ellory Elkayem treats this high octane 50s Big Bug update as a chance to remake Gremlins with giant spiders, and he pulls it off. The jumper spider attack on the dirt bikers alone is worth at least a rental! Not very scary, but a lot of b-movie fun for monster lovers. The DVD also features a commentary, the teaser (but not the full length trailer that jokingly announced ELF as the BIGGEST, NASTIEST GIANT SPIDER MOVIE OF ALL TIME! ) There is also a look at the alternate opening credit sequence as well as an alternate ending and some snippets left out because they add nothing to the movie that it did not already have. A real sweet bonus is the inclusion of Elkayem's Larger Than Life short subject that led to his getting to make this, arguably the best giant monster movie in nearly twenty years. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The spiders made it a cute movie.
Review: I had very low expectations when I watched this movie for the first time, clearly expecting the worst. To my surprise it was actually quite entertaining. The overall plot was quite cheesy but they did a good job with the spiders. Though if your expecting realistic spiders.... ummm let me put it this way... I distinctly heard one of the spiders say "Woohoo party" when they were stampeding through the mines chasing townfolk.The movie is good for a laugh.
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Summary: A must see "horror" spoof!
Review: Horror spoof is the key words to remember with this movie, and, quite honestly, horror isn't exactly accurate. I'm sure you all know the plot by know which isn't any more imaginative than other "campy horror movies". However, this movie had me rolling with laughter from the cat/spider fight in the drywall, to the hilarious gremlin-like chittering of the spiders, to the final fight scenes in the mall. This is a movie for anyone who likes updated, computerized grade B flicks, and wants a good laugh. VERY minimal blood, non of that guts and brains ick, and only a couple of dried out corpses that might make you think "ew", but that's about it. Probably good for 10 and up, but if you're arachnaphobic, you may want to pass. 2 thumbs up from me!
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Summary: If you like Joe Dante movies, you might like this
Review: I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I had very low expectations, but wound up entertained in spite of myself. Although directed by someone else, like any classic Joe Dante movie (e.g. Gremlins, The Howling, Small Soldiers) this is a cross genre movie with lots of clever details going on in the background. Most reminiscent of Gremlins (one of my all-time favorites, BTW), it tries to balance humor and horror. It doesn't work as well as Gremlins and certainly isn't as textured, but it's fun nevertheless. The perfomances are OK - somewhere between Oscar nominee and Ed Wood, but the real stars are the spiders. I personally detest spiders, yet I found it a lot more watchable than Arachnophobia. Rather than menacing, these spiders mostly just go about their business of gleefully eating every living thing in sight and making more baby spiders. A large part of it is that these spiders aren't silent, but make noises which are immediately reminiscent of the rampaging gremlins in Gremlins. The climactic scene where David Arquette manages to escape the big female spider had me rolling on the floor! Deliberately cross-genre movies aren't everyone's cup of tea. Many folks like their comedies without horror and their horror movies without humor. If you're not one of those folks, it's worth watching. I gave it three stars for achievement and then added an extra star for attitude and audacity. I'll keep my eyes open from now on for more movies by Ellory Elkayem.
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Summary: Worse Than The Movies It Parodies
Review: Eight-Legged Freaks is the worst parody movie I think I've ever seen. It's a load of trash that is supposed to be a take on the campy monster movies of the 50's 60's and 70's.
But Eight-legged freaks is worse than the movies it parodies.
The idea to parody campy monster movies (although questionable) had potential to it. Whatever potential there was, is blown on this flimsy, unfunny throwback to films that don't need to remembered. The acting stinks, David Arquette looks like some sort of action hero wannabe while everybody else is just sleep walking through the movie. The spiders are way to fake to even possibly look threatening and are eventually seen so much that they just get boring. Plot? What plot? There isn't a plot, something about spiders eating nuclear waste or something. This junk heap obviously hoped to cash-in on Spider-Man being released two days later but the two couldn't be farther apart. Along the way we see Eight-Legged Freaks rip off every decent, and not so decent movie of the past few decades. Don't waste your time on this nuclear waste of a movie.
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Summary: Kool and Kreepy
Review: I was watching this with my family one night. It can get really scary sometimes. i do not recomend this movie to little kids. My age recomendation is 12-up.
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Summary: Stupid. Watch Arachnaphobia if you want a good spider movie.
Review: I went with my dad to see this in theaters and it was truly pathetic. It wasn't very scary at all. It only had a couple of jump scenes at the beginning and that's it. The "eight legged freaks" look fake. They're so darn computerized and cartoonish that you'll wish to return this to your local rental store. Don't buy this movie. It's not worth your hard earned money. Now if you want to see a REALLY good thriller with spiders, then buy Arachnaphobia (starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman. Trust me, you'll get your money's worth. But if you still want to see Eight Legged Freaks, then rent it first before deciding to buy it. If you rent it, watch it, and really enjoy it, then go ahead and buy the darn thing. But keep in mind this is my opinion. Watch it for yourself & make up your own mind about this 'freakin' movie. It had some O.K. action scenes in it but nothing to blow me away though. I've seen better than this. And that's all I've got to say.
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Summary: Best giant bug movie ever
Review: Do you hate Spiders? Well if you do they don't like you either. In Eight Legged Freaks chemical wastes causes spiders to grow to enormous sizes. They eventually run over the town eating hundreds. This is a fun movie to watch. It has no shortage of guns blowing up giant spiders and people geting eaten. It has great effects and alot of them. This is a very good movie. The king of giant bug movies. What did you expect from the creaters of Godzilla and Independence Day which were excellent. The good DVD version has a 2.35 anamorphic widescreen transfer and 5.1 DD sound (Warner still ignorantly ignores DTS). decent I rate it only 4 stars for two reasons. The fight scene between the spider and the cat was terrible. It was one of the worst fight scenes I have ever scene and it happens in the begining which might draw people from away from all the great action later in the movie. Plus the DVD has a low amount of extras and comes in an annoying snapper case. Besides that this is a fun spider movie.
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Summary: Reasonably good horror spoof
Review: This modern take on old-fashioned monster movies succeeds by reveling in its own silliness. Its failings are mainly in the last half hour, which does not sustain the madcap fun of the first hour and tends to drift into a fairly routine horror mode. The fun begins when a vat of toxic waste falls into a pond outside a small Arizona town. The resulting ecological disaster causes a gigantic increase in size of the local spider population. Now the size of the average car, their appetites increase accordingly. People are on their menu! Led by local prodigal son, Chris [David Arquette], and the town sheriff, Sam [Kari Wuhrer], the residents put up a valiant, though not always well thought out, battle against the eight-legged beasts. The special effects are appropriately cheesy, mirroring those of Grade Z horror flicks of the 50s and 60s. One weakness, in my opinion, is the casting of David Arquette. The result is a bad actor playing a bad actor in a parody of bad movies. It would have been funnier to have had a great actor in the part. The movie is intended more for laughs than for scares. Still, people deathly afraid of spiders might want to avoid it.
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Summary: kinda weird
Review: The Movie Is Good Which Is Why I Wanted To Rate It 5 Stars But It's Too Weird. No Way I'll Give It Credit For Comedy Like Gremlins. It's Fun And Cute.
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