DVD Review: Eight Legged Freaks (D)

Eight Legged Freaks ( 2002)
Directed by Elloy Elkayem
Starring David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Doug E. Doug and Rick Overton
MPAA: PG-13
Grade: D

Review by Bobby Nashville

Sigh. Talk about a big disappointment. The TV ads for Eight Legged Freaks were fantastic, and let me be perfectly clear: no one loves gigantic bug movies more than me. Except maybe my good friend Ghoulash, but he doesn't count since he's been MIA for years. Seriously, Ghoulash- come back to the world of horror, we miss you!

Anyway, the problem with Eight Legged Freaks is this: it's not funny enough to be camp and it's not scary enough to be entertaining. The worst part of this is that director Elloy Elkayem obviously gets the whole gigantism genre and could have made this film either intentionally bad, or intentionally funny. Instead its neither.

Sure there are some cool computer generated effects but it doesn't take long before the wow factor wears off. Midway into Eight Legged Freaks there's not much to do except nurse your beer and wonder just how much time is left. Frankly the black and white big bug classic Them is far superior to Eight Legged Freaks in just about every way. Ah, the classics.

Note to big bug directors: next time, make the characters hokier, the dialogue campier, and the effects cheesier. That is all.

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