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Giskdan
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Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
A disappointment
29 January 2007 - 0 out of 12 users found this review helpful.
Having enjoyed most of Jack Hill's films (specially the wickedly Funny "Switchblade Sisters"), I wanted to see his "cult" classic for a long time, but now I have to say it's a let down.
It's not nearly as bizarre as people make you think; the humor is really bad and it didn't worked for me. Actually, I found Spider Baby quite boring.
See it and judge for yourself, but I think it doesn't deserve so much praise. Sometimes people put a movie into a pedestal just because it's weird. Well, the thing is, it's not even THAT weird; maybe it was for his time, and I'm sure that the presence of the late Lon Chaney Jr. has a lot to do with the cult status given to the movie, but that's it.
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