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3.1/10   132 votes
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Director:
Jesus Franco
Writers:
Simon Birrell (English dialogue)
Jesus Franco (writer)
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Release Date:
1998 (Spain) more
Genre:
Comedy | Horror more
Plot:
When two people have disappeared, the mysterious Tarantula is suspected. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Eight legs to pick your pocket more (4 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Lina Romay ... Mari Cookie / Tarantula
Michelle Bauer ... Sheriff Marga

Linnea Quigley ... Tere

Amber Newman ... Amy
Analía Ivars ... Queen Vicious
Robert King ... Martin
Pedro Temboury ... Chuck Morrison (as Peter Temboury)
Mavi Tienda ... Leona Tarantino
Rachel Sheppard ... Midwife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
George Martinez ... Chauffeur
Al Pereira ... Club Bartender
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
8 Legs to Love You (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:Not Rated | Spain:18
Filming Locations:
Málaga, Andalucía, Spain

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
On the Sub Rosa DVD, after the FBI Warning, there is a MARI Warning: "Tarantula provides the penalty of bondage and castration for unauthorized reproduction, distribution of exhibition of Mari Cookie and the Killer Tarantula video tapes of video discs. Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by Sheriff Marga and may constitute a penalty of up to five years of turning her on and/or a lifetime of servitude in Tarantula's lair." more
Quotes:
Sheriff Marga: Men are weak and false. more
Soundtrack:
Ballad for a Bad Girl more

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4 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Eight legs to pick your pocket, 23 January 2005
3/10
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

Jesse Franco's films have now spanned 4 decades, and he's a rather hit or miss director/writer/producer. I have some of his really old films which are pretty strange and racy, but interesting, and of his newer films, I rather liked Killer Barbys but thought Tender Flesh was absolute crap. What can one say about a movie where the highlight is a woman standing on a kitchen counter, peeing in a metal mixing bowl? Not much. Mari-Cookie & the Killer Tarantula has a few things to like about it but it probably and unfortunately has a few MORE things to not like. The music is cool, but then again so is the music in most Franco flicks. Lina Romay is a woman who is either a boring housewife with a sad sex life or a psychotic tarantula woman stripper and lesbian, you decide, because I couldn't tell. Either she spends most of her time in a fantasy world or this is all "really" happening. At any rate she was supposedly conceived of a mother that was raped and then a tarantula (that hums a little song) deposits eggs in the woman & there you have it, Mari-Cookie. If you enjoy extended lesbian groping then there's plenty of that here, and frankly it bores me to death & becomes not much more than filler to extend the running time. There is a generous helping of weirdness to this, and I'd have to watch it again to decide if it's truly worth keeping or not, but right now I'd give this about 3 out of 10 stars and say give this one a pass.

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