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PseudoPod => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Bdoomed on April 30, 2009, 04:44:44 AM
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The Pseudopod Autopsy: Eight-Legged Freaks (http://pseudopod.org/2009/04/30/the-pseudopod-autopsy-eight-legged-freaks/)
Small towns have the worst luck. For fifty years they’ve been beseiged by martians, carniverous slugs, tunnelling prehistoric worms, vampires and most terrifying of all, B-movies. So if you live in a small town with a storied past and eccentric inhabitants beware. Because your town may be about to fall victim to…the Eight! Legged! Freaks!
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This was released as Arac Attack in the States. Totally B-Movie stuff, but funny as can be. I loved this film.
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IIRC this was *filmed* as ARAC ATTACK but not released under that title - it certainly played here in the U.S. as EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS, as I can remember the trailer very well (no desire to see the movie). ARAC ATTACK was scuppered as the title by the, yes, war in Iraq.
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Oops my bad. I was already in Germany by then. I saw it here as Arac Attacks (http://www.amazon.de/Arac-Attack-Angriff-achtbeinigen-Monster/dp/B00006LIGA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1244725622&sr=8-1). Still funny though.
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This was a truly excellent movie- tounge firmly in cheek.
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IIRC this was *filmed* as ARAC ATTACK but not released under that title - it certainly played here in the U.S. as EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS, as I can remember the trailer very well (no desire to see the movie). ARAC ATTACK was scuppered as the title by the, yes, war in Iraq.
Yeah--one of the things I instantly remembered after seeing this pop on the feed is the part of the commercial where David Arquete is standing on some tower thing, taking out the giant spiders with a shotgun, and screaming "Get away you EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS!" and the title pops up as soon as he says it.
Yeah, it's a pretty fun b-movie--just good enough for you to give a damn about the characters and story, while still making it funny as hell. I think Slither did a better job though, if not just for having Nathan Fillion in it.