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Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
fun B-movie for the kiddies
I saw this last night, and judging from the number of people in the theater and the fact that it still needs 5 votes to get on the scale, not a lot of people are interested in seeing it. I think people say to themselves, "Are they still making movies like that?" Answer: Yes. This is a great B-movie, with great effects and a few genuinely fun-to-watch scenes. The plot is minimal, truck accidentally spills toxic waste into a pond, crickets get infected and are fed to the spiders who grow to super-size and start eating people. The best scene is when the jumping spiders chase the dirt-bikers around desert hills. There is no human blood, lots of spider blood, no dialogue, a couple of good gags, and lots of spiders. Probably ideal for kids 10-14.
Frogs (1972)
oh, spoilers here...
I know I'm like the 40th comment but I had to say SOMETHING about it, it was fun to watch, it's a great bad show, like Crocodile.
Sort of Crocodile Hunter vs. Ugly Rich (used in the film to describe themselves) Environment Wasters. Like, What Would Happen If The Snakes and Gators *Did* Actually Bite and Kill. The sound is odd, like someone recording clanging pots and pans then sped them up and slowed them down halfway through. A LOT of shots of frogs, snakes, gators shots, real, which means that when they kill people they splice the film of the nature shots with someone agonizing in pain. I did like that that almost everyone was killed by a different swamp creature, including a snapping turtle!
Scariest part: (SPOILER!)
Vines fling themselves on injured man, tie him up, and spiders fall on his face, this one just sits there and shows him its fangs. That creeped me out.
Worst line:
"I remember something about four score and seven years ago people made up their own minds!" -- neo-liberated African-American model trying to convince the African-American proper butler and down-to-earth cook/maid that they should leave the residence, since four people were eaten by the swamp about 40 feet away.
Two big questions after mulling the film over: (SPOILER!)
Why is it called Frogs, again? How did that guy at the end die? Frogs spooked him to death? If anything, I would adopt frogs after the show and keep an eye out for snapping turtles...
Best part:
Frog that "jumps" (is flung) onto the table with the cake on it.
Village of the Damned (1960)
eh, pretty good, kind of creepy.
Clearly Michael, the son of the professor, is the scariest little devil human. His voice dub was interesting, I wonder how high (or low) his voice was at that time that they didn't want to use it.
The plot:there's a kind of force-field around a small town in England for a few hours, everyone passes out, then several women find themselves pregnant with too-rapidly developing babies, even virgins. The babies come out all looking like little goths, wearing black, white-blond hair. They have a mental community amongst themselves, when one devil kid learns something they all do, and they communicate telepathically. They are scary because they can control people's minds, and make them commit suicide. There's the wacko military that wants to kill them, the professor who naively wants to study them and use them for good, and the small boy with glowing eyes that makes a guy shoot himself. Most were downplayed, which was the strongest point of the film. Everyone was very British; ie. they are calm and polite, even when discussing small satanic kiddies. The lack of melodrama saves it and makes it a little more intelligent than it could have been.