Horrors of Spider Island
Horrors of Spider Island
NR | 16 April 1960 (USA)
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A bite from a giant spider turns a man into a creature that terrorizes a group of women who survived a plane crash.

Reviews
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Bezenby The master copy of Horrors Of Spider Island was no doubt found on top of a wardrobe in some German teenagers room in the sixties. This film involves eight women (who have a lengthy audition scene at the beginning (like The X Factor, only good) and their manager crashing in a plane just off a desert island. The footage of the plane crash looks to me like it was taken from World War 2 footage, but don't worry - everyone's alright.Once on the island they find a shack with a dead guy stuck to a web. After some mild fright, they get to doing what woman do when there's more than two of them in a room: that is, bitching and fighting with each other. Gary, the guy, gets the moves put on him by Babs which doesn't please his missus, so he ends up going for a walk and getting bit by a spider. After killing one of the group, he disappears for the next twenty minutes of the film. My theory is he snaffled some of the girl's underwear and a box of Kleenex and went off to chug his knackers flat.Meanwhile, (or rather, 'a month later'), two guys who help the professor turn up at the island and start pinching themselves as they meet the girls. Much of the middle of the film is taken up by this, but don't expect to be bored as the girls find the time to have a jazz infused bikini party! Luckily before they are rescued Gary turns up and starts wasting the cast. Who will survive? I don't (I can't remember their names).Horror of Spider Island is a bad movie, but it's an entertaining one due to general daftness (Gary's make up, the spider, the punch up between the two guys) and the near constant scantily clad woman, from an era where women looked like women and not like Ziggy-Stardust era with silicone implants. It gets points for that.My favourite bit was the weird slurping noise the guy made when he found that waterfall.
wbswetnam What do you get when you mix sexy eurobabes, a few very lucky guys, a two-foot "moster" spider, a dead scientist and an uncharted island? You get the Horrors of Spider Island, of course! This thinly veiled "horror" movie is a sexploitation film featuring "dancers" en route to Singapore when their plane catches fire and slams into the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour. Of course, nearly all of them emerge without even a scratch. They make their way to an uncharted island where they waste no time making skimpy furry bathing suits to frolic around in. The women spend the majority of the time entertaining the men (!!!) and getting into occasional cat-fights with each other. There is a radioactive spider something-or-other which bites some guy who turns into a spider monster of course, but this doesn't seem the perturb the women too much. They're having too much fun getting naked and stuff.This movie is great camp and made great fodder for MST3K. Thanks, Bill Rebane, for yet another Z-grade movie!
drystyx Not all of the older movies were great. Indeed, the nazi party was in full swing in making propaganda movies, usually in science fiction, and didn't have to bother to be even a tiny bit subtle.Director Bottger waves his swastika as predictably as any one. With the vehicle being an airplane crash on a remote island with a giant spider, he contrives an entire story to show that brunette women must die and blonde women alone must survive. There just isn't any more to the story. It's the ultimate chick flick, with gorgeous brunettes biting the dust, but obviously the most depressing thing in the world for a straight guy. Brunettes are what guys want, and blonds are what women want guys to want.So the Hitler worshipers like Bottger had more than one target audience, but if you aren't a swastika waver, or a woman jealous of brunettes, there's just absolutely nothing else in this tripe. Absolutely nothing. And that isn't a spoiler, because it is very obvious from the start that this is going to be another nazi propaganda movie.
ThoseLittleRabbits What a poor excuse for a horror movie. If you can even call it that. This movie might as well be under the romance/comedy section. All this movie shows are a group of bimbos trying to be sexy while prancing around on an island. You would think with a bunch of ditsy women and one man that there will be a lot of fun killing scenes. WRONG! There were about 7 girls and 1 guy, and only 3 of them get killed off! Including the guy....Oh how I was hoping all of them would get taken down one by one but that just didn't happen. Instead I waste more than an hour of my life staring at ditsy women get into cat fights, swim around, and endlessly flirt with any guy that comes along. It was mind numbing how NOTHING even happen! The first horror like thing that comes along is a nasty fake looking spider. Even though it looked so fake it still gave me the creeps. It's face was like a human mean old man's with sharp teeth, and giant black eyes. It's the only thing in the whole movie that weirded me out. The spider mutant comes along and bites someone and they turn into the mutant spider. About an hour of the movie goes by until anything remotely scary appears! In that one hour you see, like I said before, ditsy girls prancing around on the deserted island, pretty much doing nothing but being dumb and boring.I'm usually someone who doesn't like nudity, but nudity could have really saved this piece of crap. But I knew that wasn't gonna happen since this was the 60s and nudity was unheard of. I guess that's why they have so much sex and boobs nowadays, in case the movie turns out to be a pure crapfest.