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(1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1   6 "Es tan mala que es buena."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 3.5/5 "...I thoroughly checked for spiders under my pillow before I went to bed."   NutzWorld   Blake French 2.5/4 "Eight Legged Freaks is a rare creature feature that actually suffers when the filmmakers try to make the human characters more like the genuine articles."   Nitrate Online   Dan Lybarger 3/4 "Squishy, buggin' fun. "   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "Eight Legged Freaks clearly wants to be a Gremlins for the 21st century, but never quite makes it due to lackluster character development and shaky pacing."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "This do not take-me-serious B-film is played as a limp tribute to the 1950s mutant bug films such as Them!."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Not nearly as savvy a send-up of the genre as it thinks it is."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "Arquette makes for a thoroughly boorish hero, his delirious 'They're here! They're here!' outcry suggestive of the film's failed potential."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C- "Neither interesting nor particularly silly."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D+ "So crummy that you might feel like squishing it underfoot when it's over."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "If all of Eight Legged Freaks was as entertaining as the final hour, I would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "an amusing retro ride for those who can find humor in the marauding antics of arachnids with gigantism"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 "May be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but ... it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "This popcorn flick promises little from an artistic standpoint but a decent time from a pure entertainment one and delivers a fair amount of just that."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "A movie that knows what it wants to be and delivers."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 2/5 "'Elkayem's film is clearly targeted to capture young teens for no other reason than to rip off their ticket money'"   ToxicUniverse.com   John A. Nesbit 6/10 "Some of the movie succeeds; some of it falls flat. But you can't say it doesn't try to live up to the corny reputation of sci-fi in the mid-twentieth century."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "...you realize Elkayem is stretching a short film out into a feature. When everything else fails, throw more spiders at the screen"   Light Views   John Larsen 4/10 "Plays more like a cross between "Starship Troopers," "Wild Wild West" and "Dawn of the Dead" than the '50s flicks it's supposed to be parodying."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 1.5/4 "A film bad on purpose is still a bad film."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C ""Eight Legged Freaks" features lots of nudge-nudge jokes and pretty cool spider effects, but, as most self-aware genre hybrids do, runs out of gas in the third act"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/5 "While it occasionally drags a bit, the film captures the same tone -- knowing without being overtly jokey -- that made Tremors so entertaining."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2.5/4 "I liked the movie, but I know I would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further. I’m left slightly disappointed that it didn’t."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 1.5/4 "The only entertainment value is what you yourself bring to it"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Popcorny-good, but with a lot of unpopped kernels and unfortunate gobs of Golden Topping(TM) lurking at the bottom."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Click to read review"   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 3/5 "The good, clean fun of watching a terrible movie that isn't ashamed of being terrible."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "A parody of 50's sci-fi/horror movies that still takes itself seriously enough to be good creepy fun."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "Essentially a cheesy 1950’s sci-fi drive-in movie with un-cheesy special effects."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 4/5 "The best giant-spider movie I've seen in quite some time."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "It doesn't quite succeed as well as it should, but it is fun nevertheless."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "Eight Legged Freaks won’t join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love..."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "This gleefully giddy giant spider invasion may never win any Oscars, but it delivered one of the most entertaining 90-minute spectacles I’ve witnessed in a long time."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg B "... a B-movie-and-proud-of-it thrill ride, probably the best of its kind since Tremors."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker C "We're treated to bad digital effects attacking even worse actors."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell 3/4 "No Aracnhophobia but still good."   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson 2.5/4 "Somewhere short of Tremors on the modern B-scene: neither as funny nor as clever, though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf C+ Read review   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 6/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 43) of 43 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1