Audrey Webster (Theresa Saldana, Raging Bull) is just a girl trying to get out of her mother’s trailer park. She’s set to marry her fiancé, Robert (Joe D’Angerio), but she has no idea that her mother, Mildred (Margaret O’Brien), is keeping a massive, hairy secret. On their wedding night, things go sideways. Audrey doesn’t just consummate the marriage; she devours her husband. When she emerges, covered in blood and shell-shocked, Mildred sits her down for the ultimate birds and the bees talk. Turns out, the Webster women aren’t just human—they’re half-spider mutants who view men as nothing more than a buffet.
Are they related to Patty Duke in Curse of the Black Widow?
Directed by Karl Epstein, this episode was written Michael McDowell, a master of the macabre who also wrote Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
If you’re a deep-cut fan of the show, keep your ears sharp. You can hear the recurring game show Wheel of Fate—the same one that plagued the characters in “All a Clone by the Telephone” and “It All Comes Out in the Wash“—playing on Mildred’s television.
