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You have heard about this one before, darlings, but it is one of my favorites, and of everyone in this house, too. Little Pippin will be seeing it for the first time, so we are excited about that.
This is the one where the spider dances to the crazy rock beat it digs so much. This is also the one where June Kenney, who was just in "Attack Of The Puppet People" plays teenager Carol, who finds her dad's gift--a ring-- as effortlessly as finding a bar of soap in the bathtub, in the spider's pit! And, of course, there is that famous scene, used in a recent commercial, where the spider lunges down on a screaming woman, her Fifties dress stuck inside the car.
But this is one nasty spider! Wait till you see it going after the suburban mother and baby! After that, viewers lose sympathy and want it dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some interesting things about this film. It was made by AIP, one of the stables for teen horror films, but the studio never really existed at all. How was business done?
In America, this film is known simply as "The Spider." But in the UK, it was called "Earth Vs. The Spider." I like the second title better.
As I said, AIP was not really a studio. Yet the special effects in this film are better than 1955's "Tarantula," which was put out by Universal, clearly a better studio.
So, kick off your New Year's Eve with this gem!
I have no idea what "Sventoonie" is doing, but I am sure it will be worth the wait!
Happy New Year, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only the poor spider had been content just to hang out at the local sock hop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
Bullets won’t kill it, fire won’t kill it!!!!
Victoria,
It is eventually electrocuted.
I would have loved a sequel.
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