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Eight Legged Freaks
2002 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Ellory Elkayem
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
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> Well, it didn't work for me.
Me neither, and "The Wrestler" was quite a glaring omission.
I also agree that the "micro-genres" feature is flawed. For example, I searched for "Gwoemul" and none of the micro-genres it returned matched the reason I liked the movie - the deliciously dark humour.
When I searched for Eight Legged Freaks though it returned "terrorize goofy carnage" which is a close enough, if over-simplified, description of Gwoemul.
I suppose it boils down to the audience size as well. More people (on that site) are likely to have seen Eight Legged Freaks because it's older, and because it's Western movie (Gwoemul is Korean).