Arac Attack - attack of the eight-legged monsters

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Movie
German title Arac Attack - attack of the eight-legged monsters
Original title Eight Legged Freaks
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Ellory Elkayem
script Ellory Elkayem,
Randy Kornfield,
Jesse Alexander
production Dean Devlin ,
Bruce Berman
music John Ottman
camera John S. Bartley
cut David Siegel
occupation

Arac Attack - attack of the eight-legged monster (Original title: Eight Legged Freaks ) is an American horror - comedy from the year 2002 playing with the human fear of spiders. The New Zealander Ellory Elkayem directed the idea for the film in 1997 in a short film called Larger than Life . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on July 27, 2002 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .

action

Near the small town of Prosperity, Arizona , an overtired truck driver loses a barrel of hazardous chemicals that rolls into a lake. The hermit Joshua, who breeds exotic arachnids nearby , uses crickets from the contaminated pond as food for his breeding, whereupon the spiders show remarkable growth spurts. A little later Joshua is bitten by an escaped, poisonous tarantula . In agony, he knocks over his terrarium so that the other animals can also escape.

The inquisitive student Mike, who has often visited the odd Joshua, is the first to track down the cause of his friend's death and the dangerous plague of spiders, but initially nobody wants to believe him. Only when the now human-sized spiders attack Prosperity do Mike and his mother Samantha, who is also the city's sheriff, try to save the people of the city together with the mine owner Chris McCormick and the unbelieving radio host Harlan. A slaughter breaks out in a shopping center where the townspeople hide, until the few survivors manage to hunt down the spiders with a huge explosion. For Chris and Sam it comes to a happy ending .

Reviews

Jan Distelmeyer wrote in epd film that the film is one of the “smart” and “in every way self-confident” “B-film descendants”.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film "wavered between ironizing the genre and paying homage to B-horror pictures of the 50s" and could hardly boast anything except for the "impressive" special effects.

Awards

  • The film was nominated for the Saturn Award 2003 in the category Best Horror Film .

Trivia

  • The film was budgeted an estimated $ 30 million. It grossed approximately $ 17.27 million in US cinemas. In the other countries around 21.7 million US dollars were earned.
  • As in Europe, the film was to be called Arac Attack in the United States . Because of the phonetic similarity to Iraq Attack and the Iraq War , it was renamed Eight Legged Freaks . In the English original, the spider breeder Joshua mentions the title of the film when he shows Mike his spiders: "I call this an arac-attack." (In the German dubbing: "I call it a spider attack.").
  • Filming began on 8 January 2001. They found in Glendale and Superior ( Arizona instead).
  • Spiders appearing in the film include real orb web spiders , jumping spiders , tarantulas , real trapdoor spiders , Atrax robustus .
  • In the film a speaking parrot says “I see dead people.” (Original: “I see dead people.”), An allusion to the well-known sentence from the film The Sixth Sense .
  • In one scene of the film, the classic horror film Formicula is on TV in Mike's nursery .
  • There are some references to other fantastic US films and the like. a. Jurassic Park the scene in the trailer or Dawn of the Dead as the residents flee to the mall.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Arac Attack - attack of the eight-legged monsters . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ filmzentrale.com
  3. ↑ Arac Attack - attack of the eight-legged monsters in the lexicon of international films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ↑ Business Data for Eight Legged Freaks