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<font size="4"><p>Spider Baby</font>
<font size="2"><br>video review by Gary Johnson</font>
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<p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>I</b></font>n RE/Search's <i>Incredibly Strange Films</i> (an essential book for lovers of strange cinema), Jim Morton describes <i>Spider Baby</i> as "a television sitcom directed by Luis Buñuel." That's an apt description, for <i>Spider Baby</i> does indeed have the same efficient, functional lighting and camerawork as classic sitcoms from the 1960s. This visual style has been fused to a twisted sensibility, giving us central characters who suffer a degenerative condition that causes them to regress mentally. As we watch these characters--at once, they're both naïve and murderous--the movie's visual style stands in stark contrast to the subject matter. However, the complacency of the visuals works in the movie's favor, for it suggests a darker side to the blissfully secure visions offered by television comedies.
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