Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)'s comments

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khoem

Wow, this one needs more love....absolutely bonkers, and a lot of fun.

9 years 8 months ago

What a strange movie. Not so much comedy or horror as it is self-aware documentary on the 1960's B rated horror flicks. Some impressive camera work and a little nod to the famous Lon Chaney with talk of werewolves and the full moon. Oh yeah, and some spiders.

10 years 6 months ago

CSSCHNEIDER

There is a certain brilliance in the self-aware nature of the film. Ahead of its time in many ways. The performances from the two sisters veer between stylized and weird to outstanding.

12 years 8 months ago

Emiam

5/10
Good length, slightly exciting, never boring. But by today's standards, this is no more than quite good. Lon Chaney Jr. as a driver / stepfather is credible / good in the lead role.
Fun to see this top list classic on SVT Play once. First shaker during Halloween week completed * check *

3 years 5 months ago

Siskoid

Though its production values sometimes feel like they're on the Ed Wood end of the scale, Spider Baby's lurid story is just bizarre and demented enough to get a recommendation. For me, it isn't so much the inbreds who have a condition that regresses them to a kind of feral and sociopathic childhood - though I do like Sid Haig as the simple brother and Jill Banner as spider-Lolita - it's Lon Chaney Jr. as their de facto guardian and how much he loves them and what the threat of inheritance-happy family members could mean to their psychotic little family unit. He plays it beautifully and makes you kind of care for the three "children". The worst part is probably the over-long "haunted house exploration" bit, but the otherwise hokey introduction that explains the family's strange malady eventually pays off in that horror/Twilight Zone kind of way. Spider Baby is B-movie trash, but it's fun, memorable trash that knows what its roots are and even winks at Chaney's Universal Monster career.

4 years 1 month ago

Aeon Rio

Is there really any spider in it? I need to know.

3 years 3 months ago