Wolf Eyes x 'Spider Baby' - Videodroom 2026

Giggles and horror on eight legs: legendary avant-noise duo Wolf Eyes takes on the pitch-black horror comedy ‘Spider Baby’ at Videodroom. A straight-up camp classic and without a doubt one of the strangest cult films of the sixties. Giggles and horror on eight legs: legendary avant-noise duo Wolf Eyes takes on the pitch-black horror comedy ‘Spider Baby’ at Videodroom. A straight-up camp classic and without a doubt one of the strangest cult films of the sixties. ‘Spider Baby’ - also known as ‘Cannibal Orgy’ and ‘The Maddest Story Ever Told’ - from 1967 is a bizarre piece of exploitation cinema. Too intense to really be a comedy but too ‘cutesy’ to really be horror, this floats somewhere between ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. A cartoonish slab of grindhouse that wallows in its own contrariness and disturbed anarchy. Who else but Wolf Eyes would want to provide this picture with a brand new score? Wolf Eyes (John Olson and Nate Young) originated in 1998 in Michigan and are known for their unique & uncompromising sound: noise, industrial, free jazz, avant-garde in the blender and a hypnotizing and unpredictable performance that is intense from beginning to end. With countless releases on record, CDR, and cassette, they are one of the most active and inspiring experimental acts of the past 25 years. The story: In a dilapidated mansion, the last descendants of the Merrye family live in complete anarchy. Due to a genetic disease, they have slipped into a childlike state and give themselves over to cannibalism and bloodlust. The youngest daughter Virginia (Jill Banner) thinks she is a human spider and creeps through the house in search of prey. The oldest son Ralphie (played by cult actor Sid Haig) hunts for stray cats which he serves as dinner. The orphans are cared for (and kept in check) by butler and chauffeur Bruno (a brilliant role for horror actor Lon Chaney Jr.). When some distant relatives and their lawyer unexpectedly come to visit with their eye on the inheritance, the dolls - naturally - start dancing. ‘Spider Baby’ was the creature of cult director Jack Hill - known for blaxploitation and camp classics like ‘Coffy’, ‘Foxy Brown’, and ‘Switchblade Sisters’ and lovingly described by Quentin Tarantino as ‘the Howard Hawks of exploitation cinema’. The freaky performances of, among others, Sid Haig, the atmospheric black-and-white photography, and the pitch-black humor gave this low-budget schlocker a ‘punk rock’ vibe to the letter. No wonder this is one of John Water’s favorite films. ‘For anyone who has ever felt different or out of step with the world in general, Spider Baby will likely strike a chord, in addition to providing a unique horror experience, transcendent of the time period’ - Cinematic Randomness