Kiah Roache-Turner directs Alyla Browne, Ryan Corr and Penelope Mitchell in this Aussie horror comedy where a little girl adopts a killer alien spider in her family’s building.

Very much a game of spot the influences. I have no real problems with a movie celebrating Arachnophobia / Gremlins / Critters / Aliens (/Evil Dead Rise?) but this never finds that celluloid delirium to make it anything more than a one watcher. Flirts with bad taste but not in a way that demands a cult following. Not going to lie, I had higher hopes for this daft, creepy little try hard.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

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