| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Andrew Staker |
| After a drum containing toxic substances accidentally finds its way
into a river, a sleepy generic US town is where it stops. When an
eccentric local 'spider farmer' makes his discovery of an
overabundance of crickets appearing in the water known to...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
| PLOT:
A small mining community is overrun by giant spiders after a batch of
radioactive material falls into one of their water sources. The smart kid with
mucho insect knowledge attempts to warn everyone else about it, but just like in
most "monster...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Eugene Novikov (Rating: C-) |
| "It's a spider, man!"
Eight Legged Freaks is neither interesting nor particularly silly, a movie
with the unfortunate fate of being stuck between two genres, never wholly
committing to either one and never grabbing our interest. It takes the
nonsensical,...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C-) |
| EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS (director/writer: Ellory Elkayem; screenwriter: Jesse
Alexander/based on the story by Randy Kornfield & Mr. Elkayem; cinematographer:
John S. Bartley; editor: David Siegel; music: John Ottman; cast: David Arquette
(Chris McCormick),...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10) |
| CAPSULE: Giant spiders attack a small Arizona town. This
is a film that goes for every pun and silly joke it can
muster to fill in the spaces between its giant arachnid
attacks. The plotting is obvious and full of holes, but
the...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 4/10) |
| There seems to be a cinematic spider renaissance every 25 or 30 years. The
first occurred about 50 years ago, with films like Tarantula (1955) and
Earth vs. the Spider (1958), and the second followed two decades later with
offerings like 1975's The...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| Prosperity, Arizona. A sleepy desert town with few roadside
attractions--a
mall that nobody seems to want to go to, an abandoned mineshaft, and an
innocent
little spider farm nestled alongside a babbling brook. And it's into this
creek,
which...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by John Sylva (Rating: D-) |
| The title may refer to mutated spiders, but if anyone's a freak in Eight
Legged Freaks, it's director Ellory Elkayem-albeit a two-legged one.
Updating the B-movie monster romp of yesteryear for the MTV generation,
Elkayem's knowledge of the genre is...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: C+) |
| The sleepy driver of a truck hauling hazardous waste swerves to avoid
hitting a bunny rabbit and a barrel of the toxic stuff falls off and
lands in a pond. A reclusive spider farm owner, Josh (Tom Noonan),
collects bugs from the site to feed his precious...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: C) |
| An exotic spider farm with an eccentric owner (Tom Noonan, "The Pledge")
is the favorite after school destination of Cochise County Sheriff Samantha
Parker's (Kari Wuhrer, "Anaconda") young son Mike (Scott Terra), although
he's forbidden to go there....more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by David Levine (Rating: 2/5) |
| Spiders are annoying little creatures that always find ways to invade your
space. Many people find the sight of them scary, but usually a good-soled shoe
is the best defense. But the spiders of Eight Legged Freaks are so massive that
a shoe won't even...more |
| Eight Legged Freaks Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| Here's an original idea for a motion picture. What if insects ingested toxic
waste? What if those insects were a tasty bunch of crickets, the favorite food
of spiders? Think those spiders might grow really big, really fast? Well,
that's exactly what...more |
