Review of Spider Baby (1967) by Stephanie F — 01 Jun 2007

Whenever film is made, firsts are made. Spiderbaby is a first. It's the first (that I know of) of highly corny in the horror genre. It's partially scary, partially silly attitude towards a family with the "Progressive-Regressive" disease is campy through and through, and never lets on that it's ever serious.

If, say this movie had been released within the last five years, it'd have been panned as another throwaway in a pile of un-watchable films. But because of how campy in this specific genre has grown since the 60's, it's also had another thing working against it: recognition.

Being this campy can sometimes be fun to watch, because it's got all of the staples a silly little movie should have, in the audience telling the screen not to do something. In the end, this is the good campy, and thank God for that.