Liz, Ralphie, and Virginia have no desire to leave Bruno and go with the family, and they are willing to get downright murderous in order to preserve their lifestyle.Īlthough Spider Baby has more of an air of a black comedy than a horror film, it is definitely as morbid of a movie as one is apt to find. Schlocker ( Dementia 13’s Karl Schanzer), and his assistant, Ann (Mary Mitchel, also from Dementia 13), but they have no idea about the mental state of the children. Peter and Emily show up at the house, along with their lawyer, Mr. The four live in a big, isolated house and generally keep to themselves, until a pair of distant relatives, Uncle Peter ( Ordinary People’s Quinn Redeker) and Aunt Emily (Carol Ohmart from House on Haunted Hill), decide that they want to take custody of the children – along with the estate. The Merryes are watched over by their chauffer and butler, a loyal servant named Bruno ( The Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney Jr.).
The family consists of three children: the bossy Elizabeth ( Old Yeller’s Beverly Washburn), the playful Ralph (Sid Haig from The Devil’s Rejects and House of 1000 Corpses), and the unstable Virginia (Jill Banner from Weekend of Fear).
Spider Baby begins with a narrator reading from the Dictionary of Rare & Peculiar Diseases about an ailment called Merrye Syndrome in which the subject mentally regresses in age until, finally, they end up in a pre-natal state resulting in “savagery and cannibalism.” The narrator then tells the story of the family for which the disease is named, the Merrye family. And, sometimes, spiders just have to show up as eerie set dressing and let the humans do the scary stuff, like they do in 1968’s Spider Baby. Sometimes, spiders can play a small role in a film, only to end up having their scene be the most memorable in the picture, as is the case with The Fly. Hollywood heroes have done battle with single mutant spiders, as in Tarantula, and whole groups of them, like in Arachnophobia. the Spider or modern monster movies such as Big-Assed Spider, eight legged creepy crawlies have snuck their way into movies for as long as there have been movies. Whether in classic sci-fi films like Earth vs. There’s a reason that spiders are essential to any Halloween party decor they’re scary.
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