Spider Baby (Director's cut)
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Movie Reviews of Spider Baby (Director's cut)
Movie Review: The itsy bitsy spider threw blood all about. Down came the axe the eyeballs did pop out!
Summary: 5 Stars
Spider Baby is BACKKKKK!!!! You lil darling! You we're out of print
and almost asking prices like SALO??? Not anymore! Your back
and affordable.Spider Baby is a story of the most disfuntional
family in history...I am not going to go in details about it.
FOR YOU MUST BUY! It is like well-well I can't think of anything???
Very funny movie and at times very DARK! Maybe BROOTAL!!!!!
This stars Lon wolfman Chaney Sig Haig and a great cast of
others.There are so many great scenes to this.If you like CULT
FILMS Spider Baby needs to be in your catalog..One of Terry Gilliam's
Fav.movies.No Toby Maguire in this folks!Just good ole fashion HORROR!
There are good bad movies,and there are bad bad movies.And then there's
this:a bad movie so bizarre,so fascinating that it's in a class by itself!
So come meet the family of in-bred whackos who become murderous cannibals
one girl thinks she is a spider and kills in arachnid frenzy fashion.
Spider Baby is NOT to be missed! Should be called The maddest story
ever told! I eat this with a FORK!
Movie Review: Sting! Sting! Sting!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like the older retro cult style films, really funky humor, Lon Chaney Jr (who really played his role well in this) and the idea of a pre-Spaulding role by Sid Haig. Awww shucks - just trust me on one thing, and simply BUY this. It is so darn funny in all it's moments that I can't list them all - and the extras are very good to watch too. It is dark and morbid, funny and spoofish, crazy and insane - and it ALL works well into a GOOD and thought out story!...I have watched it at least 20 times since I bought this about a year (?) ago, and still have never tired of it!Movie Review: They're talking about us know!
Summary: 5 Stars
My god....this is a cult classic film that I just accidently happened to stumble upon. Without this film there would be no devils rejects, no texas Chainsaw massacre, no rocky horror picture show, not to mention a load of other films. This film is funny....it's more darkly comic than anything else. It should not be taken seriously, and yet there are some truly terrifying moments. Excellent, really excellent. such a shame Jill Banner died at such a young age...she had the makings of a terrific actress.Movie Review: Wonderful film! and wonderful version of it
Summary: 5 Stars
I won't go into detail about how good the film is (which is a brilliant horror/comedy film) but the quality of the DVD. The image transfer is straight from the negative print which is very crisp. Previous editions (if you could find it) of this film were copied from a copied VHS tape. The extras are great if you are a big fan of the film.Movie Review: Gotta love low budget movies...
Summary: 4 Stars
I love a handful of director Hill's films like The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Big Doll House. I've seen this over a decade ago and didn't like it so much. Sid Haigs role was the only character that stuck to my mine. Now hundreds of exposable films later I found out that I was mad. After watching this last night it turned out to be a fantastic film. Like Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. (Brono) was allowed to shine in the twilight of his career by a low-budget director who let his actors do what they do best. He watches over the isolated Gothic house where the last generations of the wealthy Merrye clan reside. Cursed by a debilitating disease brought about by inbreeding, the family members have regressed to a state of "pre-human savagery and cannibalism. When some distant relatives and their shyster lawyer appear trying to commit the family to a home and put Bruno out of a job, Bruno knows it's not going to end well for anyone. Yes, those residing at the old family mansion are pretty far gone, but they're much happier than Leather face's slaughterhouse family, marching toward their inevitable doom with cheery, reckless abandon.
He is supported by the incredible talents of Jill Banner who plays the title character, Virginia, who thinks she is a human spider and lurches around the house with daggers drawn searching for prey. Her sexy and disturbing "spider dance" as she taunts her male victim is mentioned in many of the reviews I've read, and with good reason. The eldest, Ralphie (Sid Haig), prowls around the yard snatching up felines to roast for dinner. Carol Ohmart, the stunning beauty who appeared as Vincent Price's wife in "House on Haunted Hill" delivers a thrill by being quite scantily clad by the finale. And The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition) fans will be delighted by the young Sid Haig's of course with his silent physical performance as the feral and deteriorating older brother
The eerie black-and-white cinematography and freaky performances (tempered by Chaney's laid-back, sympathetic turn as the caretaker) go a long way toward smoothing over the film's low-budget limitations. And, in case you weren't sold yet, Chaney sings the title song, which is a crazy spoken-word anthem about a cannibal orgy that's "strange to behold," with priceless lyrics such as: "Frankenstein, Dracula, and even the Mummy are sure to wind up in somebody's tummy." I can see why some folks wouldn't dig it - the payoff is in creepiness and atmosphere, not in thrills and gore. But for pure gratuitous weirdness, this one is hard to beat.