Spider Baby
Spider Baby is a 1967 film from the USA, directed by Jack Hill, running 81 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic and hicksploitation.
- Year
- 1967 · 1960s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Director
- Jack Hill
- Updated
- 30 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (51/100)
- Also known as
- Attack of the Liver Eaters · Cannibal Orgy · Cannibal Orgy, or the Maddest Story Ever Told · Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told · The Liver Eaters
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic, Hicksploitation
Jack Hill's first, Lon Chaney Jr's last good role. Very odd and very fond.
Jack Hill's first feature, and one of the strangest films of its decade. The last three children of a family afflicted by a regressive madness live isolated with their caretaker, and their childlike cruelty turns lethal when relatives arrive to claim the estate. Lon Chaney Jr, in one of his last good roles, plays the devoted chauffeur trying to protect them.
It is macabre, funny and unexpectedly tender toward its monstrous children, shot in eerie black and white with a gleeful theme song sung by Chaney himself. Nothing else quite looks or feels like it.
A genuine one-off, and long overdue for its cult reputation.
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