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Disappointing - Too much family drama


I saw this movie had a good score, particularly for a horror. I thought the opening scenes were alright. The movie’s visual style kinda reminded me of “Willard”

But the movie fails to execute. Instead of a creepy or thrilling horror about monstrous spiders - we go on and on with the family drama. We get scenes with a dementia-striken mother, arguments between a stepfather and stepdaughter, arguments between a husband and wife, and discussions about the family’s income (mostly tied to the patriarch’s odd line of work as a comic-book illustrator). They should’ve scrapped these scenes and went more with the spiders

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Agreed, the family drama killed it. Not enough spider action.

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Yes, and there really were no redeeming characters in that drama either. Everyone was owful in their own way, except maybe for Helga, she was just sick.

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