Directed by Jack HillMy rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Dark Sky Films)
A campy mix of horror and humor, sort of a demented version of the Addams Family. Lon Chaney Jr. is perfect as the butler/caretaker of a family suffering from "Merrye Syndrome", a disease which causes them to mentally age backwards. So you get a cast of young adults acting like five year olds...which is just plain silly at first, but I did eventually adapt given the context. Jill Banner stands out as the girl who thinks she is a spider, and proves it by trapping and killing an unfortunate group of strangers who show up to claim an inheritance. There are heaving bosoms on display, a severed ear (hello David Lynch), cannibals living in the basement, spiders everywhere and numerous quotable one-liners.
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