Mark Higby is hired by Leigh Lockridge to investigate the murder of her fiancé Frank. The bartender and a patron say a woman named Victoria asked Frank to help her start her car. Later they heard a scream and found him dead in the parking lot.
The police suspect Leigh. Her first husband vanished on a cruise and now her fiancé is dead. The autopsy reports he has chest wounds and was completely drained of blood. Maybe the police should rethink their Leigh is the murderer theory.
While Lt. Conti says to keep things under wraps, Mark gets some information from Rags, who tells him there have been other deaths with this same M.O. He gives him the name of a witness, who tells Mark he’s sick of being harassed and laughed at, but Mark assures him there’s nothing funny about a murder. When the man says he saw a giant spider, Mark laughs.
Rags tells him there is a legend about a curse that goes through the female members of a blood line. It can lie dormant for years until one is bitten by a spider, at which point she will occasionally turn into a spider during a full moon.
Mark starts digging into the Lockridge family and finds the father was a flying enthusiastic who died in a plane crash. His wife surived and gave birth to twin daughters at the crash site. When she was found a few days later, one of the girls was covered in bites and was comatose for a week. Dun dun duh!
This made for TV movie is tame, but amusing. I don’t recall ever hearing a story about a person who turns into a spider during a full moon. It makes me want other movies with ridiculous back stories to explain turning into oversized creatures in the full moon.
Once bitten by the spider, the woman periodically - but only during the cycle of the full moon - makes the transition into an incredibly large spider.
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| What’s this? A giant web? |
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| The family is referred to as Lockridge, but the credits say Lockwood. |
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