Movies: Trash film debauchery: 'Spider Baby'

August 17, 2012 at 9:08PM
"Spider: Baby"
"Spider Baby" (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Local B-movie film collective Trash Film Debauchery lives in a world in which the unequivocally bad translates as a camp classic. Its monthly film event this week showcases the lo-fi 1968 horror-comedy "Spider Baby," in which a degenerative brain disease turns three orphans into bloodthirsty savages, killing anyone who enters their ramshackle mansion. Comedy ensues when their chauffeur attempts to clean up their mess. The film, which was alternately titled "The Liver Eaters," "Attack of the Liver Eaters," "Cannibal Orgy" and "The Maddest Story Ever Told," was so low-budget that the original producer fell into bankruptcy, causing the film to not be released until three years after filming was complete. If you're a true camp movie fan, get to the Turf early for trivia at 9 p.m.

  • When: 10:30 p.m. Monday 3/23
    Where: Turf Club
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