ARAC ATTACK – MOSTRI A OTTO ZAMPE
Eight Legged Freaks
Nella tranquilla cittadina mineraria di Prosperity, in Arizona, un incidente provoca la caduta di un barile di rifiuti tossici dentro uno stagno. Joshua, un collezionista di ragni esotici si reca come di consueto allo stagno, dove raccoglie i grilli per nutrire i suoi ragni. Gli aracnidi cibandosi dei grilli ne assumono le tossine, e nulla nell'immediato ne fa presagire la futura metamorfosi all'ignaro Joshua, fiero della sua collezione di ragni, e che mostra a Mike, un ragazzino del luogo. Dopo che Mike torna Joshua sarà la prima vittima degli aracnidi che diverranno sempre più grandi e mortali. Un gruppo di coraggiosi abitanti della tranquilla cittadina mineraria presa d'assalto dai terrificanti animali decide di affrontarli combattendo una battaglia all'ultimo sangue.
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David Arquette
Chris McCormick
Kari Wührer
Samantha Parker
Doug E. Doug
Harlan Griffith
Scarlett Johansson
Ashley Parker
Rick Overton
Pete Willis
Matt Czuchry
Bret
Riley Smith
Randy
Leon Rippy
Wade
Randi Klein
Waitress #1
Terey Summers
Waitress #2
Scott Terra
Mike Parker
Eileen Ryan
Gladys
Jane Edith Wilson
Emma
Jack Moore
Amos
Roy Gaintner
Floyd
Jay Arlen Jones
Leon
Matt Holwick
Larry
John Storey
Mark
Don Champlin
Leroy
David Earl Waterman
Norman
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Arach Attack!
Spiders escape from a spider farm in Prosperity, Arizona, and become giant man eating beasts on account of toxic waste carelessly dumped in a near by river. Can the odd ball inhabitants of this Arizona town escape with their lives? Or will spiders rule the earth and lay waste to man kind?
Eight Legged Freaks is unashamedly homaging B movie creature features from the 1950s. The likes of Tarantula and Them! have their Pedipalps well and truly watered, in what is possibly the most undervalued of all the modern day creature feature homages. Having no pretensions what so ever, the only real thing not in "Freaks" favour is the usage of CGI, but even that doesn't hurt the film, if anything it adds to the obvious preposterous nature of the genre. I mean how else are we to get 20 foot jumping spiders chowing down on some annoying teenager?
Perhaps "Freaks" is viewed harsh because the cast is relatively C list? Again that is a genre staple, surely? For what it's worth I think they do real fine, David Arquette has oodles of goofy charisma, Kari Wuher makes a fine female ass kicker, and the kids (one a young Scarlett Johansen) are really rather cool. Director Ellory Elkayem, who after doing They Nest in 2000 clearly has bug issues, adheres to genre staples. Kooky western town out in the desert, the inhabitants of which range from near loonies to dopey politicians, and the plot follows the traditional sense of impending doom played for laughs. Listen out for the score from John Ottman, which plays on variants of "Itsy Bitsy Spider", whilst cast a keen eye on John S. Bartley's Arizona camera work.
Whilst not having the savvy scripting of homage daddy, Tremors, or the star appeal of 1990's Arachnophobia, Eight Legged Freaks deserves its place amongst such fun and creepy company. As the tag line says, "Do you hate spiders? Do you really hate spiders? Well they don't like you either". With that, I think it's web well and truly spun, don't you? 7/10
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