Spider Baby

This is a black and white movie featuring Lon Chaney Jr. as a sort of butler who cares for three retarded children (or adults playing children). The Merrye children have a genetic disorder that makes them devolve mentally when they hit the age of ten. The father has recently died and the sister has come to reclaim the house in which the three kids and butler live (along with some random deformed aunts and uncles in the basement). The kids, while retarded, are natural killers who play with spiders. The kids end up killing the aunt and her lawyer. But the uncle and lawyer’s secretary escape to tell the story later. It’s not the best movie in the world, but for the time frame, it’s not bad. A tad far fetched, but it was a long time ago.