Author/director Jack Hill’s 1967 movie Spider Child or, the Maddest Story Ever Informed (watch it HERE) – which boasts a solid that features Lon Chaney Jr. and Sid Haig – ranks up there as considered one of my all-time favorites, so I’m pleased to see that it has lastly, almost sixty years after the movie was initially launched, been given the novelization therapy! Written by Dayna Noffke, the novelization has been printed by Encyclopocalypse Publications and is obtainable for buy, in paperback and Kindle editions, at THIS LINK.
Right here’s the outline of the novel, which has a web page rely of 210: In a crumbling mansion on the sting of nowhere, the Merrye youngsters stay a secret life, watched over by their devoted caretaker Bruno and cursed by a uncommon genetic situation that causes them to regress into violent, childlike states whereas retaining the power and appetites of adults. Virginia catches flies in her imaginary net—then slashes them to items with butcher knives. Elizabeth sulks and plots. And Ralph… effectively, Ralph scuttles within the shadows, twitching, grinning, watching. When distant family members arrive to assert the household property, Bruno can solely hope the “children” keep in mind their manners. This official novelization of Jack Hill’s cult horror basic Spider Child plunges deeper into the grotesque humor, cracked psychology, and rotting grandeur of the Merrye legacy. Writer Dayna Noffke brings new life to the story, including expanded scenes, wealthy internal monologue, and backstory solely hinted at within the movie. Informed with gleeful menace and sudden tenderness, that is an invite to descend into full Merrye insanity. This version additionally features a foreword by cult movie scholar Mike Watt, in addition to reconstructed “deleted scenes” and annotations that broaden the twisted lore of considered one of exploitation cinema’s strangest treasures. Some households have skeletons within the closet. The Merryes feed theirs within the basement.
Lon Chaney Jr. and Sid Haig had been joined within the solid of the movie by Jill Banner, Beverly Washburn, Carol Ohmart, Quinn Redeker, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer, Mantan Moreland, Carolyn Cooper, and Joan Keller Stern.
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