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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) 5.7
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the ... See full summary » Director:John 'Bud' Cardos |
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Title: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
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Diane Ashley
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Walter Colby
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Emma Washburn
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Sheriff Gene Smith
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Linda Hansen
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Birch Colby
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Joe Ross | ... |
Vern Johnson
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Terry Hansen
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Adele Malis-Morey | ... |
Betty Johnson
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Earl Forbes
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Clyde
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Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel. Written by Ross Horsley <ics6rh@leeds.ac.uk>
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A Wild Science Fiction Nightmare. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
November 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Maldição das Aranhas See more »Box Office
Budget:
$500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$17,000,000 (USA)Company Credits
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The sheriff tells Shatner at Colby's accident scene that he wants to find a way down to the truck to check on the body without breaking his neck. Yet, the tow truck cable is already wrapped around the vehicle's axle. See more »Quotes
Birch Colby: Are you crazy lady? This is our home, and no damn spiders are gonna run us out!See more »
No pun intended btw with the summary line. And I'm sure not everyone will like the ending. But I think it's almost the only way to end this. William Shatner is really great in this and you can feel him, playing the ridiculousness of the script. There are even scenes, were he "fights" with Spiders, were you could be excused thinking this was directed by Mr. Ed Wood.
But of course this does has something to say and since the spiders were real (well at least most, maybe they a few plastic one thrown into the mix), this also feels real. Which must have been good and bad for the actors. Good because they didn't need a great motivation to act scared and bad ... because some actually must have been genuinely scared!
Having said that, the movie does not have a big budget (I even read this might have been initially made for TV, although I'm not sure if that's true) and the dialog is off quite a few times. If that doesn't matter much to you, you will get a really quite good, eerie and scary horror movie.