‘Lavalantula’ Is The Next ‘Sharknado’ From Director Of ‘Big A** Spider’: Best Headline Ever?

Lavalantula is a real thing, readers, and how the heck can you not be happy about that!

Those zany creatives at Syfy have teamed with the guy behind the independent film Big A** Spider! to develop their very own eight-legged ridiculous monster movie, thus resulting in the epic headline above.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I’m not riffing on my brilliance at stringing words together here. I’m just saying it’s a great headline because how can you go wrong putting those three titles together in the same thought?

As one might expect, Lavalantula will be sort of a mashup of the other two films from the director of Big A** Spider!, Mike Mendez.

Mendez recently spoke to Fangoria about how the project came together.

“The last thing I wanted to do after Big A** was another spider movie, but Syfy and Cinetel Films called me up and asked if I’d be interested,” Mendez tells the horror news site.

He continues.

“My knee-jerk reaction was that I wasn’t, but at the same time, I’d never had a network call and ask specifically for me. I have wanted to break into television for a while now, so I felt this was a good test to see what it was like to work for a network.”

Mendez admitted that the experience of working on Lavalantula was quite different from his previous film.

“The big difference was that Big A** Spider! was an independent feature and this was a TV movie, so at the end of the day, it wasn’t my film. It was Syfy’s film, but knowing that going in, it was fun to collaborate with them and try my best to give them what they wanted, which was part Big A** Spider! and part Sharknado. The difference between my films and Syfy’s is that I want the audience to laugh with us, while the Syfy way is to take a ridiculous concept and play it straight. The end result is a little bit of both.”

To help bring in some laughs, Police Academy star Steve Guttenberg takes the lead role and brings along Michael Winslow and two other co-stars from the original comedy. Here’s a look at the gang back together in the official Syfy trailer.

This appears to be as ridiculous as it sounds, so that can only be a good thing, Sharknado fans. And if you need any more convincing, here’s the trailer for Mendez’s previous film, Big A** Spider!

Will you be checking out Lavalantula when it drops this Saturday (July 25) on Syfy?

[Image of Lavalantula from trailer]