EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
"'Eight Legged Freaks' may be the movie that people were hoping for
when they went to see 'Men in Black II'...[it] has laughs, thrills,
wit and scary monsters, and is one of those goofy movies like 'Critters'
that kids itself and gets away with it...The movie's director, Ellory
Elkayem, has a sure comic touch... I like the way he keeps the characters
likable and daffy, and positions the spiders just this side of satire...And
I liked the way the cute sheriff dismisses her daughter's spider ravings
as 'media-induced paranoid delusional fantasies'... '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
"...stalls on laughs once the big joke has been established: A citizenry
raised on movies like 'Them!'' and 'Tarantula'' is the toughest to
convince that there really are outsize arachnids in town." --Lisa
Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"'Freaks' strains to succeed as a piece of well-intentioned camp,
but those sweat stains in the armpits and that dew dammed up over
its eyebrows is more evident than the laughs it produces...'Freaks'
is mercifully unpretentious, and whisks through its abbreviated running
time. Its director, Ellory Elkayem, keeps the action pinging... runs
out of gas scarily fast--its one-joke premise lends itself more to
a short than a feature." -- Elvis
Mitchell, The New York Times
"Less substantive than a bucket of popcorn, 'Eight Legged Freaks'
is neither particularly funny nor especially scary. But it's so cheerfully
silly, you may just have fun with it anyway...if you're even remotely
in the mood for a mental challenge, you'll have to look elsewhere."
--Elizabeth Weitzman, The New
York Daily News
"...the movie is so unapologetic in its crassness that it disarms
even the fussiest connoisseur of throwaway disaster flicks...'Eight
Legged Freaks' fulfills your giant bug movie needs with an agreeable
blend of shtick and stickiness." --Gene
Seymour, Newsday
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