I don't usually like it so tounge in cheek but this one had a good action story and great spider Sp F X. I liked the radio guy and the end was okay but predictable. Had fun.

or should i say crappy? Ellory Elkayem (the director) should be ashamed .this movie is terrible, except for that really hot spider that was killed at the end in the you know, mine. She was 1 hot mama.

This is revenge for all those times you've trapped a spider under a coffee mug (and promptly left it there), or flushed it down the plughole, or thrown it out in the cold, far away from your front door (like I do).

I'm not particularly fussed either way about spiders, I like the teeney ones best. They're good for the environment at least. It's when they come out shooting out from under your couch or something, and head straight for you.

This movie terrified me. I was eating my lunch at the time, and thought I'd put it on, to calm me down after getting myself all worked up about booking a holiday. My lunch went cold, and my mouth went dry. This is NOT as it says on the tin, a comedy movie, it's a bloody horror movie! Jeezus! This is enough to send shivers up your spine. What's comedy about this movie? If I'd been standing, my knees would have been knocking. If you suffer from severe arachnophobia, I beg you not to watch this movie. You'll be paranoid for months afterwards.

The only comedic things I found about this movie, were actually the spiders. There were three things I found funny, the first one being when Sam (the sheriff) shouted at one and it turned round and looked at her. I nearly had an accident at that bit, it had this look that just said "what?" Then when one is trying to eat (?) the deer's head on the wall, and it spits it out when it realises it's not real. I nearly choked. And then when the spiders are chasing after the motorbike, and they choke on the dust - that was so sweet!

I'm not keen on David Arquette. He can only show the one expression, and it's fear most of the time. He plays the same character in this, as he does in a couple of others. (Can you say Deputy Dewy?) He wasn't bad in this movie, but not good either.

I wasn't thrilled about getting this movie bought for me - but at least it wasn't Commando - but now I've watched it, it's not bad. Scary as hell, but nonetheless, it's good to watch, and it's over reasonably quickly. I'll be checking under my bed tonight, and in all the nooks & crannies.

Watching this movie I realize they producers didn't took it for seriously. And when people stay in the shopping mall to protect of the spiders, that idea reminded me "Dawn of the dead", of George A. Romero. It's the same idea. Bad acting and bad script. Don't waste time.

Eight-Legged Freaks was inspired by a short film titled Larger Than Life (included on the disk). It is a tale of a spider museum, crickets that have been exposed to toxic waste, and a dying mining town.

Crickets become toxic, crickets get fed to spider collection, spiders grow escape and terrorize. No other movie has down the swarm of giant spiders as well as this one. The effects are superb, the characters clever, and the action builds and runs non-stop.

Add a prodigal son, a paranoid radio personality, a relationship revisited, greed, corruption and more giant spiders than you could ever dream of and you get a fun and wild film. Despite the subject there is little or no gore even though quite a few characters succumb to the ravenous freaks. Currently the king of giant-spider films. An absolute must see for fans of the genre.