Mike Parker

 is a fictional adolescent and a main character featured in the 2002 "creature feature" film Eight Legged Freaks. He was played by actor Scott Terra.

Overview
Mike Parker is an adolescent boy and veritable whiz kid, who interests include, but are not limited to, arachnology - the study of spiders. He is the second and youngest son of Samantha Parker and has an older sister named Ashley.

Most of Mike's knowledge of arachnids came from spending a lot of his free time at Taft's Exotic Spider Farm, though his mother greatly disapproved of him going there. However, Mike proved critical towards providing key information when the town of Prosperity became overrun by giant mutant spiders.

Biography

 * Rode his bike to Taft's Exotic Spider Farm to visit. Taft showed him how his spiders have grown in size since feeding them crickets from the nearby pond.


 * Returned later to find the farm destroyed and Joshua Taft missing. Found evidence of giant spider tracks as well as an over-sized orb-weaver spider leg. Believed that the escaped spiders had gone down into McCormick Mines.

Notes & Trivia



 * Mike Parker is the first named character featured in the film.


 * Taking a cue from Joshua Taft, Mike began referring to the giant spider invasion as an "Arach Attack", which was one of the original working titles of the film.