Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Ellory Elkayem

Escritores (WGA):

Ellory Elkayem (story) &
Randy Kornfield (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 julio 2002 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Do you hate spiders? Do you really hate spiders? Well they don't like you either.

Plot:

A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.

Plot Keywords:

Spider | Pretty Girl | Barbershop | Spider Ostrich Fight | Diner

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A fun monster movie

Reparto

David Arquette	...	Chris McCormick
Kari Wuhrer	...	Sheriff Samantha Parker
Scott Terra	...	Mike Parker
Scarlett Johansson	...	Ashley Parker
Doug E. Doug	...	Harlan Griffith
Rick Overton	...	Deputy Pete Willis
Leon Rippy	...	Wade
Matt Czuchry	...	Bret
Jay Arlen Jones	...	Leon
Eileen Ryan	...	Gladys
Riley Smith	...	Randy
Matt Holwick	...	Larry
Jane Edith Wilson	...	Emma
Jack Moore	...	Amos
Roy Gaintner	...	Floyd

También conocida como:

Arac Attack (USA) (working title)
Arac Attack (Spain) [es]
Arac Attack (Eight Legged Freaks) (Spain) [es]
El ataque de las arañas (Argentina) (video title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, brief sexuality and language.

Duración:

99 min

País:

USA | Australia

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #38699) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) | Malaysia:U | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Austria:10 | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | France:-12 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:I | Netherlands:12 | Norway:11 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arizona, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

When the town's people have fled into the mall, the mayor, Wade, asks the goofy sheriff's assistant Pete what the hell just attacked him. Pete answers: "A spider, man", swallowing the syllable 'a', making it an obvious reference to Spider-Man, Marvel's comic book superhero.

Errores:

Continuidad: In the mall, when the sheriff is fighting the spiders by himself, he sees the big one come on the ceiling and drops his gun and runs. Later, when he is surrounded and goes under the bars, you can clearly see his gun in its holster.

Citas:

[first lines]
Harlan: Do you know fear?

Conexiones de Película:

References Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)

Banda de Sonido:

Diablo

A fun monster movie

Eight Legged Freaks (2002) is a surprisingly good movie. Basically the story of toxic-waste mutated spiders attacking an isolated desert town, this could have seriously sucked, but the film has a sense of humor about it. In a way, it reminds me of Gremlins and Tremors, two monster movies that also had a really nasty sense of humor about them. All of these films are essentially replicas of cheesy 50's movies, but done with modern special effects. The good effects do not in any way make these films any less cheesy, but they are fun. A good chunk of this film takes place in a mall, and there are some definite nods to both Aliens and Dawn of the Dead. A couple of the funnier moments have to be when an old man is stalked in a sporting-goods store while a Muzak version of "Strangers in the Night" plays in the background while a guy in a hockey mask with a chainsaw battles the spiders (Jason vs. Arachnids?).

Is the film plausible? Not in the slightest. Is it fun? Oh yeah! Mindlessly cheesy horror at its best. No nudity, light language, lots of violence, 8/10. Not a good idea for those scared of spiders.

PS The director (a young man from New Zealand) included the short that inspired this movie on the DVD release. It's worth watching too.