Following its festival run last year, Spider One's Little Bites is heading to Shudder on February 21.
Starring Krsy Fox (Allegoria), Elizabeth Phoenix Caro and Jon Sklaroff, the R-Rated Little Bites follows:
[…] Mindy, a young widow and mother, who desperately tries to protect her daughter Alice from the grips of a fiendish, flesh eating monster named Agyar. Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to slowly feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s home.
Executive produced by Cher, Little Bites also stars a whole host of horror icons including FANGORIA fave Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, Jakob’s Wife), final girl Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Bonnie Aarons (The Nun, also Jakob’s Wife) and American Horror Story‘s Chaz Bono (who also executive produced.)
In our interview with Spider One, the director expands more on Little Bites‘ themes of parenthood and how they fit into the modern canon of horror:
Parenthood/ motherhood have always been prevalent themes in horror and for good reason. Rosemary’s Baby, Mother!, The Exorcist, hell, you could even argue Frankenstein had its roots in parenthood. Having children is terrifying! Ha! And the task of protecting them from the onslaught of the world at times feels impossible.
Perhaps the recent resurgence of this theme is a direct reflection of the chaos of the times we live in. Maybe parenthood is this generation's atomic bomb. A large percentage of young people are choosing to not have children for fear of bringing them into the world. I’m not sure I agree with that assessment of the world but it is a real fear and where there’s fear there is horror!
Check out Little Bites on Shudder this February 21.
