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NUMBERS
Box Office: $17,231,006
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CONSENSUS
This homage to the B-movies of the '50s has a promising first half, but runs out of ideas in the second.
CAST & CREW
David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson
Directed by Ellory Elkayem
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, sci-fi violence, brief sexuality, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 35 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 17, 2002
Video: Oct 29, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies, Horror/Suspense, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Bugs, Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Eight Legged Freaks Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "... a B-movie-and-proud-of-it thrill ride, probably the best of its kind since Tremors."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"As any creature-feature fan knows, when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures, you get a lot of running around, screaming and death. On that score, the film certainly doesn't disappoint."
-- Mack Bates, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"It's not a great monster movie. But if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn, there's guilty fun to be had here. Chomp chomp!"
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Eight Legged Freaks is surprisingly fun and never takes itself too seriously."
-- Mike Bracken, MIKE BRACKEN'S HORROR FILMS
 "As befits its title, this PG-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the Snuggle Fabric Softener bear."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Somewhere short of Tremors on the modern B-scene: neither as funny nor as clever, though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"...if you’re just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie, you might want to catch Freaks as a matinee."
-- Cory Cheney, URBAN TULSA WEEKLY
""Eight Legged Freaks" features lots of nudge-nudge jokes and pretty
cool spider effects, but, as most self-aware genre hybrids do, runs out of
gas in the third act"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Eight Legged Freaks? No big hairy deal."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Too silly to be frightening, too stolid to be funny, it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star, David Arquette."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"I liked the movie, but I know I would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further. I’m left slightly disappointed that it didn’t."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"With the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like Tremors, Eight Legged Freaks is prime escapist fare."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"It made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy B-movie playing in theaters since... well... since last week's Reign of Fire."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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"It's actually kinda scary. Scary in a really, really dumb way, but scary!"
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"It's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of Joe Dante's similarly styled Gremlins."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"May be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but ... it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"Eight Legged Freaks won’t join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love..."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"B-type dialogue -- dirty jokes, overly emphatic declarations and other ripe lines -- make the movie camp fun."
-- Paul Clinton, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time, and in their cheap, B movie way, they succeed."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"These spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds, but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"It's the filmmakers' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time B movies good-bad that makes Eight Legged Freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion."
-- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. WEEKLY
"Too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Proves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
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ROTTEN 40%
Avg. Rating: 5.6/10 |
"If all of Eight Legged Freaks was as entertaining as the final hour, I would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"As green-guts monster movies go, it's a beaut."
-- Reilly Capps, BOSTON GLOBE
"Neither 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."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Eight Legged Freaks falls flat as a spoof."
-- Ray Conlogue, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Because 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."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Eight Legged Freaks is clever and funny, is amused by its special effects, and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"[A] real pleasure in its laid-back way."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Originality ain't on the menu, but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller."
-- Dennis Harvey, VARIETY
"The trouble is, its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"This is a poster movie, a mediocre tribute to films like Them!"
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
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"...one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages..."
-- Robert Firsching, AMAZING WORLD OF CULT MOVIES
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