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This highly influential cult classic from writer-director Jack Hill (The Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown) tells the demented and darkly comic tale of the Merrye children -- Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn), Virginia (Jill Banner) and Ralph (Sid Haig)-- all of who suffer from a rare genetic malady in which they mentally regress to a condition of "pre-human savagery and cannibalism."
The children live in the old family mansion, and though under the cautious guardianship of chauffeur Bruno (screen icon Lon Chaney Jr.), they manage to terrorize and kill anyone or anything which passes through the gates. So when the family is visited by a pair of distant relatives and their greedy lawyer, a wild night of murderous thrills ensues. Dark Sky Films proudly presents the Director’s Cut of SPIDER BABY, transferred and restored in High Definition from the 35mm original negatives under the supervision of Jack Hill and featuring previously lost footage, rounded out with never-before-seen futurities created exclusively for this release.
Special Features: -Commentary with writer/director Jack Hill and actor Sid Haig -“The Hatching of Spider Baby” -“Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein” -“The Merrye House Revisited” -Still Gallery -Alternate Title Sequence -Extended Scene
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