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Best giant bug movie ever
Do you hate Spiders? Well if you do they don't like you either. In Eight Legged Freaks chemical wastes causes spiders to grow to enormous sizes. They eventually run over the town eating hundreds. This is a fun movie to watch. It has no shortage of guns blowing up giant spiders and people geting eaten. It has great effects and alot of them. This is a very good movie. The king of giant bug movies. What did you expect from the creaters of Godzilla and Independence Day which were excellent. The good DVD version has a 2.35 anamorphic widescreen transfer and 5.1 DD sound (Warner still ignorantly ignores DTS). decent I rate it only 4 stars for two reasons. The fight scene between the spider and the cat was terrible. It was one of the worst fight scenes I have ever scene and it happens in the begining which might draw people from away from all the great action later in the movie. Plus the DVD has a low amount of extras and comes in an annoying snapper case. Besides that this is a fun spider movie.

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Fangs for the Memories
The 1950s were the golden age of monster movies. We had rebuilt people, atomic praying mantis, ants, grasshoppers, and slugs. Later we even had giant rabbits eating their way through the desert. And of course you don't want to forget the giant Gila monster. In the grand tradition of B-horror movies comes "Eight Legged Freaks".

A truck carrying canisters of toxic waste swerves to avoid a poor innocent bunny rabbit, sending a drum of toxic waste careening into a local watering hole. Once you finish rolling your eyes at how carelessly lethal toxic waste was secured in this truck, we find that the local nut case has dozens of huge spiders in his house, as some sort of spider zoo. Naturally this guy feeds bugs that have absorbed some of the toxic waste to his spiders, which then commence growing to unbelievable proportions. As in all good bug monster movies, the first person to die is always obvious.

Soon the digital spiders are chomping all the neighborhood pets, and start lusting after people as well. In one rather marvelous scene we see larger than life jumping spiders chase down a bunch of nice neighborhood boys trying to escape them on their dirt bikes. We also see an intentionally humorous scene where ostriches are being devoured by trap-door spiders larger than the ostriches, while their owner is clueless as the birds disappear in explosions of feathers. Interestingly enough, he's never looking when a bird gets taken.

This movie is played for laughs, and the general predictability is part of the humor. Even the end of the movie has the kind of "are you kidding me?" kind of ending that we all remember from monster bug movies of the 50s and 60s. Watch this movie for the wonderful digital effects and to relive those wonderfully campy and corny bug movies of yore, or to paraphrase a famous actor, fangs for the memories.

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You've Got To Be Kidding Me
Don't get me wrong! I love horror movies, science fiction movies and movies with big creatures in it. I'll even go as far as "just" buying a movie rather than rent it - BUT - This has to be possibly the WORST MOVIE I ever bought.

I gave this movie only 2 stars. 1 for the realistic look of the spiders as they reaked havic on the citizens towards the end of the movie and 1 for my main man on the radio. He was the only actor in the movie that delivered any comedy to his lines.

The rest of the acting was totally stupid and my recommendation to anyone is: If you BUY them instead of RENT... Then, don't rent it at all. Even on a Rainy Day!!!