Eight Legs, Three Breakdowns

     We bring November to a close with a focus on movies about webspinners not obsessed over by J. Jonah Jameson. Three guys terrified of small eight legged pests watch four movies where they destroy the world and confirm all our worst fears. It was a fun week...

     To kick this torture festival off, we take a look at the spider movie from the production company that made the most nightmares for children of the 80s and 90s... Arachnophobia. When a big city doctor, who is highly terrified of spiders, moves out to a small country town, because those places aren't full of little death dealing arachnids, to take over a medical practice. He just happens to bring his family at the same time as a newly discovered and highly lethal species of spider shows up.

     Next a pair of 1970s b-movie creature features. Strange things are afoot as a normally harmless and solitary species starts to bring down bovines in a swarm. Only William Shatner and a beautiful expert from out of town stands between the evolving menace and a town full of tasty people. Can they bring down a Kingdom of the Spider?

     Then our very reality is under attack from geode riding interdimensional spiders of unusual size. Can The Skipper and Della Street save us? No, of course they can't! We discover out how horrible the end of humanity will be with The Giant Spider Invasion.

     To put the final touch on our communal suffering, David Arquette returns to his hometown after a decade of being away to romance the sheriff and strike it even richer as long as he can survive the 200 giant Eight Legged Freaks. I can only suspect that filming this broke costar Scarlett Johansson on some level as her career keeps going back to the spider theme... Not just the obvious Black Widow joke but also a wink to Under the Skin where she's pretty damn spider-like. We are multi-layered like that here.
     All that and three grown men have multiple terror induced crying fits. Join us, won't you?

Episode 130- Eight Legs, Three Breakdowns