it sure will make you think twice before you dump that toxic waste in the lake.
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Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:67
Rotten:74
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: This homage to the B-movies of the '50s has a promising first half, but runs out of ideas in the second.
Theatrical Release:Jul 17, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $17,231,006
Synopsis: New Zealand-born Ellory Elkayem's EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS is a ridiculously irreverent romp that pays homage to American b-movies of the 1950s. Set in the nearly bankrupt mining town of Prosperity,... [More]
Starring: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Terra
Director: Ellory Elkayem
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Reviews for Eight Legged Freaks
Not nearly as savvy a send-up of the genre as it thinks it is.
07/17/02
A film bad on purpose is still a bad film.
07/17/02
... a B-movie-and-proud-of-it thrill ride, probably the best of its kind since Tremors.
07/17/02
They get real silly with this one, and that helps out.
07/17/02
Classic '50s monster stuff.
07/17/02
Top CriticOriginality ain't on the menu, but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller.
07/17/02
Top CriticNeither as scary-funny as Tremors nor demented-funny as Starship Troopers, the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price.
07/17/02
Top CriticWhile it occasionally drags a bit, the film captures the same tone -- knowing without being overtly jokey -- that made Tremors so entertaining.
07/17/02
Yesterday's junk sporting today's polish.
07/17/02
Top CriticThe laugh-laugh-scare- laugh-laugh-scare formula is so predictable there's something comforting about it, maybe because it connects us to a favorite old movie genre we haven't seen in a while and that we're glad to have back.
07/17/02
Try as it might, it never equals the squirm value of Arachnophobia or the self-mocking wit of Tremors and Lake Placid.
07/17/02
Not scary enough to work as a straight-up horror flick and nowhere near funny enough to be a passable spoof.
07/17/02
This popcorn flick promises little from an artistic standpoint but a decent time from a pure entertainment one and delivers a fair amount of just that.
07/17/02
Eight Legged Freaks is a decent homage to the 'classics' but never quite understands what made its predecessors so appealing in the first place.
07/17/02
Eight Legged Freaks limps along, spinning not a silken web but an extremely derivative, tattered one not likely to snare anybody's interest.
07/17/02
Good for a quick adrenaline surge -- until the next horror fix comes along.
07/17/02
Top CriticBecause Eight Legged Freaks is partly an homage to Them, Tarantula and other low- budget B-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s, the movie is a silly (but not sophomoric) romp through horror and hellish conditions.
07/17/02
A hyphen isn't the only thing missing from Eight Legged Freaks. Wit and imagination have joined that AWOL punctuation mark, perhaps in the same place where socks go when they vanish from your dryer.
07/17/02
It's too bad that the drive-in is virtually extinct. Eight Legged Freaks would be perfect on a hot summer night, with all of this silliness offering no end of popcorn-munching fun.
07/17/02
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