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SPIDER BABY 1964

CLASSIC HORROR FILM WITH LON CHANEY


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

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Reviewer: ultimatebozo - - April 29, 2009
Subject: Creighton Tull Chaney...
... was Lon Chaney juniors birth name, and he made a couple of movies with that name, before succumbing to studio pressure to become "junior".
While I don't think he was as capable an actor as his father, given the proper material, he was able to occasionally give a good performance, such as his portrayal of "lennie", in "Of Mice and Men"
I sure would like to see Lon Chaney, seniors last movie, and only talkie, the 1930 remake of "The Unholy Three" again sometime. It is evidence that, had he lived, he would have made a fine transition into the "talkies"...
As for Lugosi, he was pretty forthright about his struggle with drug addiction in many of his later interviews, and claimed that it was a result of prescribed pain medication that he developed a dependence for.
As for this movie, I enjoyed it because of, rather than despite its campiness and crudity.
Thank you for posting it...

Reviewer: PumpkinPie - - April 28, 2009
Subject: 1964 or 1968?
To me, the style of the movie, what style of clothes the characters wore, etc., seem more as if the movie were made in '64. Maybe it was re-released or just plain released in '68? I remember a movie called The Brain That Wouldn't Die, which was released three years after it was completed. I think it was made in '59 but released in '62. BTW, that's a good, cheesy B, too.

Reviewer: argon99 - - February 5, 2009
Subject: Bela Lugosi wasn't an alcoholic
Drugs in hollywood have been around for a very long time. Bela Lugosi wasn't an alcoholic but rather a herion addict. Heroin is even a tougher task master then alcohol.

Reviewer: cosmos80 - - January 15, 2009
Subject: Jr and SR.
To the idiots who dont know the difference between SR and JR. Lon Chaney has a son named Lon Chaney Jr.When Lon Chaney Sr died,Lon Chaney Jr dropped the Jr to his name,therefore being called Lon Chaney.

Reviewer: arcturus - - January 14, 2009
Subject: THE GREAT LONG CHANEY JR. RIDES AGAIN.
Honestly if you dont know the diff between lon jr and lon sr. you truly know little of horror movies,and as to whether or not bela and lon were alchoholics i know not,but this i do know here was a guy in his sixties having a ball making a movie with four knockout dames like the chicks in this movie we should all be so lucky, but getting back to the movie i knew this was going to be something special when i set the thing in motion and the first thing i hear is long chaney himself singing the title track,he was a actor with the ability to bring to life any characture or role and make it real to life.dig the scene where his is explaining to the doomed lawyer dude that the source of there peculiar affliction is "inbreeding".the guy who directed it also merits praise for catching the spider babe at her most ravishing angles in the scene where lon realizes that they all doomed.

Reviewer: shieldlp - - January 13, 2009
Subject: Something wrong here
Lon Chaney died in 1930, so his presence is a 1964 film would be truly interesting.

The actor is actually Lon Chaney Jr. and according to the IMDB, the date of the film is 1968, not 1964.

The film is actually pretty good if my memory holds. I saw this a long time ago!

Reviewer: flickfdude - - January 12, 2009
Subject: this needs a higher rating
It's enjoyable in a campy sort of way. The actors are talented too.

Reviewer: FP - - January 1, 2009
Subject: This is public domain?
I had no idea this niftly little movie was PD. I have a crystal-clear DVD of the film, secured some years ago.

Reviewer: bestpbx - - December 25, 2008
Subject: An ear on the floor means the postman has come!
This movie is so whacko!

It is an eight year old's idea of a scary movie.

Poor ol' Lon Chaney... he and Bela Lugosi both just fell to pieces at the end of their lives. How sad. Alcoholism is a tough master.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - December 24, 2008
Subject: It's kinda cute
It's a low-budget Addams Family-style movie. Members of a deranged and murderous, though wealthy, branch of the Merrye family are looked after by a caretaker (Lon Chaney) when relatives accompanied by a lawyer come to take over. Craziness ensues.

It's not bad, but I wasn't expecting much.

I downloaded the MPEG-1 file. It's actually and MPEG-2 file. Video is OK. The audio is poor, but dialog is understandable.