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October 1975 (USA) moreTagline:
Creeping!...Crawling!...Crushing! moreNewsDesk:
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Wicked Wood and a Bad Case of Maggots (From Dread Central. 23 April 2009, 10:38 AM, PDT)
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(From Fangoria. 22 April 2009, 8:56 AM, PDT)
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A multi-faceted gem of 70's B-Horror! moreCast
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Nearly all of the night scenes were shot day-for-night. The scenes were darkened in post production, though some of the footage was darkened too much to be clearly seen it was still used in the film. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Terry uses a steam iron to kill a tarantula, she is shown wearing a sleeveless yellow tank top. However, in the close up of the spider being killed, someone else is obviously wielding the iron. The arm shown is much longer than Terry's, the shirt is a different color than the one she was shown wearing, and it has a sleeve which has been rolled up. After the spider is killed, Terry is once again shown wearing a sleeveless yellow tank top. moreFAQ
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The Giant Spider Invasion is a superb piece of 1970's B-Horror. Of course, by today's synthetic, digitally enhanced, multi-billion dollar, pseudo-artistic, technologically dependent standards it is a poor film, but remember that 'Spider Invasion' only cost $250,000 to produce.
It is full of small, creepy spiders, developing into mega-bohemoth spiders and laying waste to anything that gets in their way!
Oh sure you can label it cheesy! You can label it hokey! Label it sub-par! B ut isn't that why people watch B-horror? And is not 70's B-horror the true pinnacle of the genre? And did not Mystery Science Theater think it a worthy piece to cover on their show? Me thinks in the affirmative on both questions!
This movie is a worthy effort...dealing with such diverse topics as Alien Invasion, to greed & evil in the social context...to even what Camus referred to as the Existential Dilemma (or something like that)...oh you can find almost anything in any piece of art, but my point is that this is a good movie! It's cheesy, but good; and when I saw it at the age of 6, I thought it was very horrifying!
I still...to this day...cannot drink tomato juice...Thank-you Giant Spider Invasion!