Complex mutant hero spiders: Heroes in an exoskeleton, arachnid power!
Dastardly nuclear power station owner “Filthy Fingers” dumps a barrel of radioactive waste into the insect house of the New York zoo where it comes into contact with four lovable white tale spiders.
The secret of the Goo transforms them into mutants with super strength, and, together with their friend and mentor –a terrified talking fly called Peter, they set about protecting the innocent and fighting crime!
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Early 90’s, retarded, pizza swilling reptiles named after famous artists fight a man dressed up as spiky toaster named after an office appliance. We really were at that point.
So someone came to me, asked me to pull something from the hat, something to get the kiddies money, the advertising, products and endorsements –I pulled CMHS.
Initial reactions to the concept were great, we were given the go ahead for a pilot, but alas, it was not to be.
Due to budget constraints and the lack of sufficient CGI at the time, we were forced to use claymation as the sole method of animating our arachnid heroes –pictures this; a plasticine torso along with muscular human legs, attached to the very real and riving body of a small white tale spider (its abdomen buried within the plasticine) The results were, to this day, utterly horrifying.
The images captured resembling a soviet period stop frame animation depicting the cruel and agonizing death of some ungodly creature, its spider legs shriveling up, body folding into a little ball, hanging lifelessly above those disgusting swollen pectorals… it still haunts me.
Production was shut down on CMHS after three days due to our animation director (May he rest in peace) being bitten by one of the white tales, which, unbeknownst to me, carries a sort of flesh eating venom.
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