Spider Baby: Special Edition  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W  /  Production Year: 1964  /  Special Edition  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info Empire Reviews Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Be the first customer to comment on this Title. Synopsis Seductive Innocence of Lolita Savage Hunger ofia Black Widow! A Taste For Blood! Once likened to "a television sitcom directed by Luis Bunuel," Jack Hill's Spider Baby is probably the most bizarre of a number of offbeat, even experimental, mini-budget independent horror films produced during the early to mid sixties, including Carnival Of souls, the Sadist, Night tide and Creature from The Haunted Sea, among others. And for decades it was the most elusive. Filmed in twelve frantic days in 1964 under the title Cannibal Orgy, of The Maddest Story Ever Told (a nod to George Stevens' then famous biblical epic). The film was soon locked up in litigation that dragged on for three years. Eventually retitled Spider Baby and distributed as a drive-in second feature, it was re-issued to equally little avail in 1968 as The Liver Eaters, one of the last theatrical black-and white programmers. In the ensuing years, fuzzy dupes occasionally surface in the 16mm collectors' market, but for all intents and purposes, Spider Baby was a lost film. Thanks to the efforts of psychotronic archivist Johnny Legend, the original negative was located, and new prints struck for revival. What's all the fuss about? Well, Spider Baby is that rarity among movies, especially B-pictures - something different - and genuinely creepy to boot. Lon Chaney, Jr. in what has been defined as "a restrained and even touching sunset performance," stars as Bruno, world - weary chauffeur and guardian to the last remaining members of the luckless Merrye family, all of whom suffer from the dreaded "Merrye Syndrome" - defined in the Dictionary of Rare and Peculiar Diseases as "a progressive deterioration of the mental faculties...a rotting of the brain, so to speak." Cast & Crew Actors:  • Carol Ohmart  • Lon Chaney, Jr. Producers:  • Gil Lasky  • Paul Monka Directors:  • Jack Hill Product Information Features: Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Jack Hill Newly Discovered 8 Minutes of Footage Footage From Cast and Crew Reunion at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles Director and Cast Filmographies Video: Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono Studio: Image Ent. Production Year: 1964 Release Date: 9/14/1999 Length: 81 mins Rating: NR Chapters: 16 Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Snap Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: ID5860JNDVD UPC Code: 014381586022 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Cannibalism, Comedy, Cult Film / TV, Exploitation, Horror Bargains: Under $13 Studios: Image Ent. Reviews Be the first customer to comment on this Title.