The plot is predictable, the characters are never fleshed out...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2019

Straight-out scarefest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2003

Flick your brain into neutral and let your nervous system be your guide.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2002

Despite nifty F/X, first-time director Ellory Elkayem's staging is altogether devoid of variation.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2002

[I]ts marginally amusing, but I'm giving it thumbs down.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2002

Silly, yes, but oddly fun in a light-hearted, end-of-the-world way.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2002

This is a poster movie, a mediocre tribute to films like Them!

| Jul 19, 2002

As green-guts monster movies go, it's a beaut.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Essentially a cheesy 1950's sci-fi drive-in movie with un-cheesy special effects.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2002

However many screaming teenagers it produces at the multiplexes, Eight Legged Freaks isn't good or funny enough to reinvigorate the style. It can't even maintain its own initial zing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2002

Like many of the worst pop-referential parodies of the post-Scream era, this one stalls on laughs once the big joke has been established.

| Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2002

Classic '50s monster stuff.

| Jul 17, 2002

Originality ain't on the menu, but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2002

Neither as scary-funny as Tremors nor demented-funny as Starship Troopers, the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 17, 2002

Yesterday's junk sporting today's polish.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2002

Not scary enough to work as a straight-up horror flick and nowhere near funny enough to be a passable spoof.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 17, 2002

Good for a quick adrenaline surge -- until the next horror fix comes along.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2002

Because Eight Legged Freaks is partly an homage to Them, Tarantula and other low- budget B-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s, the movie is a silly (but not sophomoric) romp through horror and hellish conditions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2002

A hyphen isn't the only thing missing from Eight Legged Freaks. Wit and imagination have joined that AWOL punctuation mark, perhaps in the same place where socks go when they vanish from your dryer.

| Jul 17, 2002