What is Spider Baby / Pit Stop about?

Name: Spider Baby / Pit Stop
Genre: Comedy,Drama

SPIDER BABY, 1968, 81 min. Writer/director Jack Hill. Lon Chaney, Jr. is Bruno, a lovable old chauffeur who is saddled with looking after the disturbed young progeny of his late employer in a dilapidated Southern California mansion. Cousins Carol Ohmart and Quinn Redeker, along with Redeker’s girlfriend Mary Mitchell arrive with family attorney Shlocker (Karl Schanzer) on a visit to the macabre household. That they don’t know what to make of their strange teenage relatives (Jill Banner) is putting it mildly. What no one except Bruno knows is that the family suffers from a hereditary disease causing gradual retardation, eventually regressing to cannibalism. PIT STOP, 1969, 92 min. Writer/director Jack Hill. Richard Davalos is the brooding, alienated lone wolf driver taken under the wing of hardboiled racing promoter, Brian Donlevy. Davalos decides to grab first place and topple manic motormouth king of the track Sid Haig, as well as steal Haig’s main squeeze Beverly Washburn.

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What is Spider Baby / Pit Stop about?: SPIDER BABY, 1968, 81 min. Writer/director Jack Hill. Lon Chaney, Jr. is Bruno, a lovable old chauffeur who is saddled with looking after the disturbed young progeny of his late employer in a dilapidated Southern California mansion. Cousins Carol Ohmart and Quinn Redeker, along with Redeker’s girlfriend Mary Mitchell arrive with family attorney Shlocker (Karl Schanzer) on a visit to the macabre household. That they don’t know what to make of their strange teenage relatives (Jill Banner) is putting it mildly. What no one except Bruno knows is that the family suffers from a hereditary disease causing gradual retardation, eventually regressing to cannibalism.
PIT STOP, 1969, 92 min. Writer/director Jack Hill. Richard Davalos is the brooding, alienated lone wolf driver taken under the wing of hardboiled racing promoter, Brian Donlevy. Davalos decides to grab first place and topple manic motormouth king of the track Sid Haig, as well as steal Haig’s main squeeze Beverly Washburn.