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The Giant Spider Invasion
USA 1975
produced by
Richard L. Huff, Bill Rebane, Mark L. Rosen (executive), William W. Gillett jr (executive) for Cinema Group 75, Transcentury Productions
directed by Bill Rebane
starring Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale jr, Bill Williams, Kevin Brodie, Diane Lee Hart, Tain Bodkin, Paul Bentzen, J. Stewart Taylor, Christiane Schmidtmer, William W. Gillett jr, David B. Hoff (voice)
story by Richard L. Huff, sceenplay by Richard L. Huff, Robert Easton, special effects by Richard Albain, Robert Millay
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A meteor crashes into a field in rural Wisconsin, but none of the
locals care too much, least of all Kester (Robert Easton), owner of the
land the meteor has struck, who only goes out to check the next morning
when his alcoholic wife Ev (Leslie Parrish) urges him to. What they find
is all their cows slaughtered - but Kester still intends to sell the meat
- and some eggsin the area of the impact. Back home, Kester and Ev open
one of the eggs and find it full of diamonds ... and fail to notice that a
spider escapes from it. Soon enough the other eggs open too and release
spiders, but Kester's too overcome by greed to still notice it, and he
dismisses the claims of his wife as delusions. Karma of course strikes
soon enough and they fall prey to a 50 foot spider. In the meantime, the
local astronomer Dr. Langer (Barbara Hale) has asked for support from NASA
in regards to the meteorite, and they send Dr. Vance (Steve Brodie), and
the two together with the local sheriff (Alan Hale jr) try to figure out
what's going on, and eventually come across the giant spider, which they
only just escape, but the thing soon enough attacks a nearby town. And of
course, it eventually becomes vital to call for a bomb strike ... Now
The Giant Spider Invasion is not a good film by any stretch
of the word, but watched in the right mindset, it can still be a lot of
fun. Basically it's a very obvious rehash of 1950s monster movies of the
giant insect variety, but done as a hillbilly ensemble piece, with some
rural humour inserted as well as a little sensuality (mainly in the role
of Kester's nubile daughter, as played by Diane Lee Hart), and ambitious
practical effects work. Now of course, the humour's a little bit hit or
miss, and many plotpoints of the movie are too on-your-nose to work out.
And while having a full scale giant spider prop rather than using
backprojection and trick shots is certainly ambitous, but the longer the
film goes and the more of the creature is shown the less convincing it
becomes. It's still a fun ride though as long as you don't take things too
seriously and have a ccertain predilection for trash movies.
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