Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times:
Format: colour     35mm     Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Centropolis Entertainment / Electric Entertainment / NPV Entertainment / Village Roadshow Productions
Executive Producers: Bruce Berman, William Fay, Peter Winther
Producers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Unit Production Manager: Kelly Van Horn
Production Coordinator: Karen O'Toole
Assistant Production Coordinator: Cindy Franke

SCRIPT
Script: Jesse Alexander, Ellory Elkayem
Story: Ellory Elkayem, Randy Kornfield

DIRECTION
Director: Ellory Elkayem
1st Assistant Director: Lars P. Winther
DGA Trainee: Dominick Scarola

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
A Camera Operator: Michael Green
Steadicam Operator: Gary L. Camp
1st Assistant Camera: David E. Baron
1st Assistant B Camera: John Coolidge
2nd Assistant Camera: Matt Balzarini, Robert Bullard
Key Grip: Tim Ryan
Colour Timer: David Orr
Video Assist Operator: Keith Collea
Camera: Panavision
Lenses: Panavision Primo and C-Series Anamorphic

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: David Siegel
Apprentice Editor: Ryan Chan

MUSIC
Music: John Ottman
Additional Music: Rich Ragsdale
Music Scoring Mixer: Casey Stone
Music Editors: Brent Brooks, Amanda Goodpaster

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Peter Geoco
Boom Operator: Kate Jesse
Supervising Re-Recording Mixer: Matthew Iadarola
Re-Recording Mixer: Jim Fitzpatrick
Sound Editor: Wade Wilson
Dialogue Supervisor: Chris Hogan
Sound Effects Editors: Christopher Assells, Dino Dimuro
Sound Utility: Dirk Stout

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Department Head: Rick Sharp
Make Up: Kim Collea
Costume Designer: Alix L. Friedberg

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Creature / Make Up Effects Department Head: Bill Johnson
Key Creature / Make Up Effects: Leo Corey Castellano

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Foreman: Russell Tyrrell

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisors: Karen E. Goulekas, Thomas Dadras
Visual Effects Producer: Drew McKeen
Visual Effects Associate Producer: Lynn M. Gephart
Visual Effects Artist: Jason Yanofsky
Animation Supervisor: Kelvin Lee
Lead Character Animator: Ido Gondelman
Character Animators: Ira Shain, Sevendalino Khay
Senior Effects Animator: Paul Van Camp
Effects Animators: David Rand, Kenneth Kurras, Matthew Davies
CG Supervisor: Paolo Moscatelli
Digital Imaging Supervisor: Greg Hanigan
Digital Model/Texture Supervisor: Bret St Clair
Texture Painter Technical Director: Joe Strasser
Digital Artists: Jason Yanofsky, Amanda N. Burton, Hector Tantoco, Ka Yaw Tan, Nowell Valeri
Head of Software: Robert Minsk
Compositing Supervisor: Abra Grupp
Digital Compositors: Brian Wolf, Jerry Hall, Robert Cribbett
Match Mover: Alexander Nowotny
Miniature Effects Director of Photography: Britta Sell
Senior Technical Director: Kay Cloud
Technical Director: Francois Bordez
Visual Effects Production Assistants: John Bozzalla Jr, Jaimie Jota, Timothy Loughran

CFX
Senior Technical Director: Scott Kilburn
Technical Director: Carol Ashley
Research And Development Technical Directors: Fabrice Ceugniet, Mylène Pepe
Visual Effects Compositor: Greg Groenekamp

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Charles Breen
Art Director: Charles Butcher
Set Designer: Matthew Bekoff
Set Decorator: Marcia Calosio
Property Master: Keith Mosca
Art Department Coordinator: Catherine A. McCabe
Art Department Staff Assistant: Chris Rogers

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: Daryl C. Lefever
Production Secretary: Shari Lee
Set Production Assistant: John W. Ervin
Staff Assistant: Aaron Cullen
Unit Publicist: Terry J. Erdmann

LOCATIONS
Locations: Arizona, USA

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Charlie Brewer
Stunts: Gail Monian, Russell Tyrrell

CASTING
Casting: Paula Rosenberg, April Webster
Casting Associate: Scott Baldyga
Extras Casting: Cindi Reiss

CAST
David Arquette (Chris McCormack)
Kari Wuhrer (Sheriff Sam Parker)
Scott Terra (Mike Parker)
Scarlett Johansson (Ashley Parker)
Doug E. Doug (Harlan)
Rick Overton (Deputy Pete)
Leon Rippy (Wade)
Matt Czuchry (Bret)
Jay Arlen Jones (Leon)
Eileen Ryan (Gladys)
Riley Smith (Randy)
Jane Edith Wilson (Emma)
Jack Moore (Amos the truck driver)
Roy Gaintner (Floyd)
Randi Klein (waitress)
Terey Summers (waitress)
John Ennis, Ryan C. Benson (cops)

PLOT SUMMARY

A small American community comes under threat from a species of poisonous spiders that grow to massive size after being exposed to an illegally dumped batch of chemicals.

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

Australia
Theatrical Distributor: Village Roadshow

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Bros.

Germany
Rating: 12

Netherlands
Rating: 16

Norway
Rating: 11

Sweden
Rating: 11

UK
Rating: 12

USA
Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi violence, brief sexuality and language)

TIMELINE

2001
January
8: USA - theatrical release

2002
July
16: USA - theatrical premiere
17: USA - theatrical release
19: Malaysia - theatrical release
31: Belgium, France - theatrical release

August
9: Iceland, Spain, UK - theatrical release
15: Austria, Germany, Netherlands - theatrical release
16: Finland - theatrical release

September
5: Australia - theatrical release
12: Argentina - theatrical release
19: New Zealand - theatrical release

October
31: Russia - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Let the squashing begin!

Do you hate spiders? Do you really hate spiders? Well they don't like you either.

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Arac Attack - working title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Empire no.160 (October 2002) p.8 (UK)
letter

KEYWORDS

insects, giant spiders, spiders