Eight Legged Freaks

Author: Ellory Elkayem

If Fun can be displayed on the screen, Eight-Legged Freaks has to be what it would look like. The story of a town attacked by giant spiders is just about as b-movie as you can get, and in Eight Legged Freaks, they lean into it and manage to make one of the most fun films in science fiction history. Toxic waste is spilled on the private collection of an arachnophile (played the world's creepiest man – Tom Noonan) and a variety of spiders grow to ridiculous sizes. It plays like one of those Japanese Kaiju films where all the monsters come together. Only they're spiders. All of them. Super, terrifying spiders. Kari Wuhrer plays our gorgeous cop, and she's just about the best version of that role you'll ever seen. David Arquette, never known for giving it his all, actually plays it like he cares! Plus, it's an early role from Scarlett Johannsen, so how can you lose? Why it's on the list: Yes, spiders are scary, but this is a treatment of the giant monster that gets that weirdness can be fun!