Product Details

• Actors: Lee Kinsolving, Kent Smith
• Directors: Leonard Horn
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Dolby, HiFi Sound
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM /UA Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302048869
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,771 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEM In A Business Suit, March 27, 2002

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Bruce Rux (Aurora, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outer Limits: The Children of Spider County [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The famous Bug-Eyed Monster in a business suit episode has one of the best beginnings of any story in the series, but after the first act it all starts going south, fast. The OL production team was spread pretty thin at the time this one was made, and it shows.

The story is terrific, but it's never properly realized. A number of people all born in obscure, rural Spider County in a given time period are all suddenly disappearing - and the Space Agency wants to know why, since not only are the vanished men among their best scientists, but UFOs are associated with the vanishing acts. One of their agents attaches himself to the remaining young man fitting the profile of the missing, in order to smoke-out whoever - or whatever - is responsible.

Damn! Sounds good, doesn't it? Too bad it isn't.

The suspense is shot from the start, the dialogue is trite and often unintentionally comical, there's way too much padding and repeat use of stock footage (mostly of the BEM in a business suit stomping about the woods, who gets far too much air time for such a flimsy, if eye-grabbing, mask)...it just doesn't hold together, at all.

This one is screaming for a remake in the new OL series.

5.0 out of 5 stars ty show, July 4, 2010

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Janice Warner "shut in" (usa) - See all my reviews
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Starts out good, then fades., November 22, 1999

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Anthony Souza - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outer Limits: The Children of Spider County [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This starts out fine, has a pretty neat-looking monster (which, unfortunatly, you see way too much of), and an interesting premise. There is some nice dialogue between Abel and the son he's come to take back with him, but as the show goes on it starts to go downhill. There are way too many silly chase scenes, and the town in which the story takes place has almost no other people in it except the characters. The ending was a bit of a letdown too.