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Spider Baby (Special Edition DVD)

Exploitation titan Jack Hill, who went on to make such cult favorites as Switchblade Sisters, The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Foxy Brown, made his solo directorial debut with this fascinating, offbeat shocker. The three surviving children of Titus W. Merrye, who represent the end of his family's line, live in a dilapidated mansion where patient servant Bruno (Lon Chaney, Jr.) watches over the increasingly eccentric Virginia (Jill Banner), Ralph (Sid Haig), and Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn). All three Merrye siblings suffer from the same rare disease that felled their father and the other members of his family -- "Merrye Syndrome," a neurological ailment that begins to manifest itself at the age of ten, causing the brain to slowly decay and sending its victims into an alternately violent and infantile state. Bald, inarticulate Ralph is supposed to be a vegetarian, but "can eat anything he can catch," while Virginia, who seems to be in a perpetual dream state, imagines herself as a human spider and catches people in her "web" (a large net) and then kills them. While it might seem best to let nature to take its course and allow the family's sad legacy to die out, the Merrye siblings have two distant cousins, Emily Howe (Carol Ohmart) and Peter Howe (Quinn K. Redeker), who are interested in laying claim to the family mansion and any money remaining in the Merrye Estate. But not long after they pay a visit to Bruno, they start to have serious regrets about their decision to see the family. Shot in 1964, Spider Baby sat on the shelf until 1968, when it was briefly released as the second half of a horror double-bill on the drive-in circuit. But after it appeared on home video in the early '80s and was the subject of an enthusiastic essay in the book RE/Search: Incredibly Strange Films, the film began to develop a potent cult following and is now regarded as a minor classic of '60s horror. The film has also appeared under the misleading titles Cannibal Orgy and The Liver Eaters, as well as Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Feature-length commentary with writer-director Jack Hill and actor Sid Haig
• "The Hatching of Spider Baby"
• "Spider Stravinsky: The cinema sounds of Ronadl Stein"
• "The Merrye House revistied"
• Still gallery
• Alternate opening title sequence
• Extended scene

Details


ProductID	DKSK8142DVD
Number of Discs	1.00 Disc(s)
UPC	030306814292
Format	DVD
REGION CODE	1
Studio	DARK SKY FILMS
Release Date	9/25/2007
Actors	Jill Banner, Lon Chaney, Jr., Sid Haig, Joan Keller, Mary Mitchell
Director	Jack Hill
Video	Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Black & White
Audio	Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (Recorded in mono, but split to give the illusion of a stereo mix on home theater systems)
Language	English
Subtitles	English
Availability	in stock
Price:	$16.13