Spider Baby
This movie is creepy and weird. There's really not much of the whole 'Lolita' thing going, despite what the film poster says. Instead, this movie is about a family suffering from a disease that causes mental degeneration to the point they become animalistic.
A chauffeur, played by Lon Chaney, takes care of three kids(and their feral aunts and uncles locked in a secret basement). Unfortunately the distant side of the family shows up with a lawyer to claim a large inheritance since no one can find a legal guardian who is old enough. What follows is completely ludicrous, as two of the kids decide they don't want to leave the chauffeur(the third, Ralph, is nearly feral and about to join his aunts and uncles in the basement), so they decide to play 'Spider' and kill the flies. In the end, only the one nice cousin survives and gets the inheritance, along with the lawyer's hot secretary.
Sure, the movie is goofy, but it's got some entertaining moments, especially concerning playing Spider, where Virginia ties up people and then hacks at them with knives. The biggest highlight for me is who is in it though; Lon Chaney represents the old school going back to the 1930s, while the near feral Ralph is played by Sid Haig, who horror fans might know better as Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombie's films. It's nearly a century of horror combined in a 1960s cheapo exploitative drive-in horror.
Ralph's appearance also reminds me of Schlitzie from Freaks, and both films have some similarities: both feature people with disabilities having to deal with outsiders trying to exploit them in some fashion. The disabled characters are portrayed as more "heroic" in Freaks than they are in Spider Girl, definitely, but there is a moral ambiguity to both films as not necessarily good people take out bad ones.
Night of the Lepus
Hahahahahaha, oh man, this movie is pretty bad yet still entertaining. A horde of giant killer rabbits is loose in Arizona, and it's up to a small town sheriff's department, a couple of ranchers, some professors, and a bunch of MPs who for some reason run the National Guard to stop them. To add to this madness, somewhere out there is the professor's wife and idiot daughter who started this whole mess by releasing an experimental rabbit into the wild because she thought it was cute. You know, like in 28 Days Later with those stupid hippies who get all of Britain killed? So in Night of the Lepus, the professor has to rescue his wife with DRAMATIC MUSIC from...bunnies. A whole horde of cute, adorable, blood-soaked bunnies.
Hey, if nothing else, Night of the Lepus fits into both the giant animal movie and hordes of animals movie sub-genres, while also fitting into the eco-horror set along with films like Prophecy, Long Weekend, Ticks, The Bay, etc. And it's always nice to see DeForest Kelley and Janet Leigh working I suppose.
Highlight of the film? Seeing a killer bunny leap through a window to tear out a screaming shopkeeper's throat. It was ridiculously cute.
The kid who played Haim's little brother is more than likely in his 40's by now. 
