Giant Spiders Terrorise Public

Campy, 50s sci-fi inspired Eight Legged Freaks achieves what it set out to do: “scare the pants off the viewer.” Written and directed by NZer Ellory Elkayem, Freaks delivers thrills aplenty, while remaining “knowing in a post-modern way.” However, the film’s pre-release advertising has not been nearly so well received in some quarters. Giant 3D posters of the angry arachnids have prompted more than 50 complaints to England’s Advertising Standards Authority – “one arachnophobe […] nearly crashed his car when he drove past one of the huge roadside posters.”