Dean,

I finally got to see some of the saturation ads for 'Eight Legged
Freaks' last weeks but it is unlikely I'll have a chance to see the
film when it appears locally (it fact it may have already been to my
local theater and gone, and I wouldn't have known since I've been out
of town most of the summer). I think I can wait for the video to come
out anyway. Few films can intice me to a theater anymore, and I
suspect that 'Eight Legged Freaks' probably comes with a Dolby
Attack; I'd just as soon watch a film new to me in an environment
where I can control the sound level. I saw the then-
current 'Godzilla' in a crackerbox Cineplex about four years ago and
came out feeling like I had been beat up because the sound level was
set to actually rock the seating. I hate that, but at least I
couldn't hear the audience members who talked all through the film.

Take care,
Jon

--- In sonsofkong@y..., sonofvulcan <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I saw this modern monster movie just the other day, and all in all
I
> was rather entertained. It ain't a great movie by any stretch of
the
> imagination, but it does offer some pretty fun special effects and
> gets off a few neat character pieces. There is very little tension
in
> the movie so don't worry about being too frightened. A horror movie
> this isn't, but a funny homage to big bug movies it just might be.
> The movie does seem to be missing an end-of-film denoument which a
> lot of monster flicks offer, but beyond that ultimate revelation or
> scene it at least holds together.
>
> Don't pay more than matinee prices or you'll feel cheated. If you
> want to hold out until video, that wouldn't be a crime either. This
> is a fair to good movie with more than a few neat sequences.
> I give it a solid "C".
>
> Dean