Review: Eight Legged Freaks — Ryan Phillips

A Review By Contributor Ryan Phillips:

David Arquette stars in the action comedy Eight Legged Freaks, a story about spiders who are exposed to a radio-active substance which makes them grow larger and larger; to a certain point to which they are twice the size as humans. This story has the essence of the early "horror" films such as Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman and Attack of the Giant Tomatoes, but in a comic way.

The story starts out in a small town in Arizona, the kind of town where everyone knows everyone. The plot gets going quickly, not incredibly slow, just how I like it. It first presents foreshadowing: a truck spills the radio-active substance into a river and it gets into the food of the spiders live at a spider-farm down the pass. When the spiders get the food it immediately presents the problem of the story: THE EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS ARE COMING!

The thing I liked about this movie is that they didn't go overboard with the spiders and their effects. The spiders didn't look real, which was part of the point, to make fun of earlier movies of huge things attacking people. They made the “freaks” hilariously funny when you’d imagine them to be scary. Parts; in some parts they acted as a comedic relief.

On top of it all, I really like David Arquette who's been in movies like See Spot Run! and Ready 2 Rumble, which is one of my favorite comedies. Arqette is funny and at the same time very serious, the thing I most admire about him is his versatility. He can always balance his character to make him look practical, yet quirky; never ridiculous.

In conclusion, I liked this clever and funny movie for its ridiculously funny spiders and simple fun plot. This is an example of the movie a hope to see when I go to the theatres. I give Eight Legged Freaks three buckets.

Ryan P., Bucket Reviews