"I'm so hot I'm starting to see dead relatives." - Patricia Porker

Misty Mundae aka Erin DeWright aka Erin Brown is an underrated performer. I'm a little hesitant to call her an actress, but she is a competent performer worthy of some acclaim if she ever manages to break free from the softcore porn/exploitation genre and approach an actual acting career. If you saw her in the "Masters of Horror" episode "Sick Girl," she capable of vulnerable sympathetic solid acting. But that's not to say I don't love her in what she does. I've seen "Playmate of the Apes" where she's in full on comedy mode leading the charge with a bunch of fake apes going to war, and I enjoyed her in "Lord of the G-Strings" where she engaged in mild girl on girl and petting with some brutally hot fantasy nymphs, so "Spiderbabe" was naturally a treat for me as Mundae explores her comedic talent and her ability to be both grating and charming at the same time.

This is obviously not a "movie" to be taken seriously at all. It's basically Vivid a la Lloyd Kaufman with a hint of Mel Brooks as Mundae mugs for the camera forced in to a fantastic situation that... is fairly ridiculous, but still a lot of fun. Once Patricia is bitten by the hybrid spider she has wacky hallucinations like her original character that involves... a girl on girl scene! If only my hallucinations involved girl on girl sex scenes, I wouldn't mind getting the flu. But this rather hot girl on girl scene is a sort of symbol for Patricia coming of age and... aw fuck the pretentious crap, it's a hot scene, and the rest of "Spiderbabe" revolves around Patricia's super powers fighting crime as Spiderbabe while engaging in wacky fantasies that consume the run time enough to garner a respectable ninety minute length for the director to sell. Misty Mundae is gorgeous in this film and the camera loves her, hence why she takes up most of the screen time and works well as this super heroine who can shoot webs out of her cooch. No seriously. The rest of the movie is composed of a basically beat by beat spoof of Raimi's movie.

This really will not translate with many audiences mainly because it's such a bipolar movie with comedy a first and foremost priority with the occasional bouts of softcore sex and really wicked girl on girl to keep the viewers expecting Mundae to drop trou happy. And they will be. I had a guilty fun time, sue me. Did I mention the hot girl on girl?