Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
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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Young Matt Murdock (Scott Terra, "Eight Legged Freaks") has a traumatic childhood.
Scott Terra (the kid from Eight Legged Freaks) plays Matt Murdock as a young kid (and, frankly, acts everyone else off the screen), who witnesses his idolised boxer father doing some loan shark work and then has A Nasty Accident with some radioactive waste (as you do) which leaves him blind, but with all his other senses intensely heightened as a result.
This movie's DNA contains traces of "Alien," "Terminator," "The Thing," and strangely enough, a tiny portion of "Eight Legged Freaks."
Though computer-animated, Charlotte looks real, and in close-ups she mirrors the menacing arachnids of Eight Legged Freaks and other fright fare.
Putting it into context, it's not as enjoyable as either Tremors (which resides on the pinnacle) or Shaun of the Dead, and is about on par with Eight Legged Freaks.