Spider Baby

Spider Baby

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Female Sadist | Cult Film

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  • Genre(s): Comedy, Horror
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Bart Patton, Jack Hill
  • Cast(s): Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 21min
  • Music: Ronald Stein
  • Award(s): Rondo Statuette 2007 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Death of a Unicorn, Y2K
  • Story:
    The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
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6.8/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that starts at the age of ten and continues throughout the remainder of the person's life, rendering them with the intelligence of a child. The final generation of the family has been entrusted to the care of the family chauffeur (Lon Chaney Jr), and all is well for these odd people until a greedy branch of the family decides that they want to relieve the family of its home. Mental illness has always, and will always be, a fascinating subject for horror movies as it probes into the unknown and Spider Baby makes best use of that fact.
Ratings

6.8/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Rondo Statuette Award

Best DVD Commentary | 2007 | Jack

BOX OFFICE

Budget 65,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

According to Sid Haig, when Lon Chaney Jr. finished the scene where Bruno talks about the toy, the crew was in tears. Chaney also received a standing ovation and wasn't able to leave the set for five minutes.

Shot in 12 days in the August of 1964. Many days were extremely hot on a small stage with no air conditioning. Lon Chaney Jr. frequently had to be wiped down between every take on some days.

The rocking chair that Virginia ties Peter to as she plays her spider game was an antique that belonged to director Jack Hill's grandmother. It was destroyed during filming.

Thought to be a "lost" film in the 1990s, it was learned there was a badly-dubbed 16mm VHS copy in release. Writer/director Jack Hill found the original negative, got a clean digital transfer from it and put that in circulation. As the picture was not copyrighted, he was able to market it on his own. Hill added a scene cut from the original theatrical release and promoted it as the "Director's Cut".

Sid Haig admitted to avoiding Lon Chaney Jr. for the first two days of filming, simply because he wasn't sure what to say to the veteran actor. One day Chaney was needed for and Haig was sent to Chaney's trailer to retrieve him. Haig nervously knocked on the door and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Chaney. You're needed on set." Chaney told Haig, without skipping a beat, "Stop that. I'm not Mr. Chaney. I'm Lon. You're Sid. Let's leave it at that." Haig later said that this interaction put him completely at ease.

Popular Dialogues

"[opening titles; sung] Bruno, The Chauffeur: Screams and moans and bats and bones / Teenage monsters in haunted homes / The ghosts on the stair / The vampires bite / Better beware, there's a full moon tonight / Cannibal spiders creep and crawl / Boys and ghouls having a ball / Frankenstein, Dracula and even the Mummy / Are sure to end up in somebody's tummy / Take a fresh rodent, some toadstools and weeds / And add an old owl and the young one she breeds / Mix in seven legs from an eight-legged beast / And then you're all set for a cannibal feast / Sit round the fire with this cup of brew / A fiend and a werewolf on each side of you / This cannibal orgy is strange to behold / In the maddest story ever told"

"Schlocker: This has gone well beyond the boundaries of prudence and good taste."