Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told

Lagrange point between "The Addams Family" and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.

matt lynch

I've never seen a movie that strikes the tone this one does, an intersection between scary, funny, sexy, completely heartfelt, and totally disreputable. Lon Chaney's tearful late film monologue should be legendary if it isn't already. Same goes for Sid Haig's completely…

Joe

“Spiders don't eat other spiders.” “Cannibal spiders do.”  Spider Baby, the maddest story ever told! a girl who acts like a bug, stalks like a bug, snatches, claws, but don’t get too close, she’ll catch you her in spiderweb. just about one of the most creative and…

c h r i s

One of those movies that initially makes you question the sanity of its creators, only for you to realize later that it's an absolute "masterpiece". A movie that belongs to Tarantino’s favorites—if everything I read online is true. A film that clearly influenced works that…

wersku

virginia i would've played spider with you

mary

97 "As with many Old Dark House pictures, Spider Baby features a cobwebbed mansion full of spiders, skeletons, taxidermy, secret passages, and hidden creatures in the basement. And the living specimens are practically monsters in and of themselves. But Jack Hill has a…

SilentDawn

If your partner wouldn’t let you tie them up in a web & do spider/bug roleplay, do they really love you?

Hailli

Spider Baby is an absolute delight, managing to be at once terribly wholesome and profoundly warped; both saccharine sweet and cheerfully sadistic. And, counterintuitively, it's the sweetness rather than the horror that holds everything together, and cements the film's…

sakana1

Spiders like bugs.. they taste goodA bizarro early Jack Hill horror comedy with fun performances by Jill Banner, Beverly Washburn and Sid Haig. At times campy, at times creepy, always weird(ly entertaining). The black and white photography makes Spider Baby feel like a…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)