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A.I. / The Time Machine / Eight Legged Freaks
A.I. / The Time Machine / Eight Legged Freaks
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Jeremy Irons, David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson, Scott TerraDirector: Steven Spielberg
Summary: In 'A.I.' we meet David who is a robot built to resemble a real child in a world where all coastal cities have drowned due to the melting of the polar ice caps. In 'The Time Machine', which is based on the H.G. Wells classic novel, a man creates a time machine which will take him into the future. 'Eight Legged Freaks' tells the story of what happens when the inhabitants of a small town in Arizona find themselves under attack from a variety of mutated arachnids where each is as big as a horse.
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Not funny enough to be called a spoof, not scary enough to be outright horror, Eight Legged Freaks is a curious effects-filled pastiche of those mutant B-movies of the 1950s and 60s. The plot is of the standard small-town-overrun-by-giant-spiders variety, after the little critters have been exposed to leaking radiation naturally. Local boy made good David Arquette has returned to the town to make amends with the woman he loves (feisty Sheriff Kari Wuhrer) and to stop the dastardly mayor from selling his father's mine. But before he can sort that out, there is a lot of bug squashing to be done as the CGI spiders cause all manner of havoc and mayhem.
Eight Legged Freaks is admittedly a lot of fun, and there are some great set-pieces to enjoy, including a gang of teenage dirt bikers escaping a horde of jumping spiders. It's also quite gory in places, though with only a couple of decent shocks it's hardly likely to induce large-scale arachnophobia. The spiders are impressive but the CGI is painfully obvious and it never feels real. However, if you can suspend your disbelief for an hour and a half you will enjoy this pacey, fun and action-filled popcorn flick. It doesn't ever take itself too seriously and is certainly a lot more fun than producer Dean Devlin's other genre entries, Godzilla and Independence Day.
On the DVD:Eight Legged Freaks offers some nice, B-movie poster-style menu screens but little in the way of extras. There's no making-of, no special effects breakdowns (astonishing given how heavily reliant it is on these to tell the story) and not even any spider-related factoids which seem almost a necessity. What we do get, though, is a fun and sprightly commentary, the theatrical trailer and director's Ellory Elkayem original short film Larger than Life, that formed the basis for its feature-length offspring. Compact, creepy and almost silent, it's a shudder-inducing little movie and far more creepy than the main feature. Technically, the picture is sharp and the bright, comic book colours and cinematography look gorgeous, and the squelching soundtrack is wonderfully crisp. --Jon Weir
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