Kingdom Of The Spiders
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Movie Reviews of Kingdom Of The Spiders
Movie Review: Want some good laughs? Check this movie out!
Summary: 4 Stars
By no means is this movie good. But, I enjoy watching awful B-movies, and this is one of the best out there. To me, this movie is more of a comedy rather than a sci-fi/horror flick. When you sit down to watch the movie, keep a keen eye out for some of these "highlights"...1. William Shatner is waaaay more disgusting than any of those spiders. Check him out putting the moves on the women! Horrible! Just watching this guy being a sleazeball jerk is worth the admission alone!
2. Watch for Mr.Johnson's wife (they're the couple with the RV staying at the lodge). I have never seen a human being that looks so weird in my entire life. I wonder if she really is human at all. She looks like a Muppet!
3. That poor guy who just keeps getting shafted by the man upstairs. He loses his prize cow, his dog, his bull, breaks his arm, and dies a horrible death by spiders! Geez, tough breaks huh?
4. I rented the VHS version of the film and from what I saw, there wasn't an ending! There is no resolution to the story. I won't tell you how it ends but is by no means an "ending"! Perhaps it is included with the DVD version...
If you're looking for a serious horror flick, look somewhere else. If you're looking for a campy, badly-made B-movie than look no further. I'll definately be buying this movie on DVD and I'll be laughing for many years to come. By the way, I happen to live in the area in which this movie was filmed (Sedona and Camp Verde, Arizona) and there are tarantulas here, but there has never been a case of thousands and thousands of venemous spider taking over a small town. At least not yet.....
Movie Review: Cool Spider Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this movie. I've enjoyed this film for years after first seeing it on TV back in the 70's/80's. I knew William Shatner as Rack Hansen long before I realized he was better known for piloting a "spaceship". "Kingdom of the Spiders" was a staple on my local light night creature feature growing up. I haven't seen it in years, but still vividly remembered it (especially the girl on the swing scene!!!). I finally got around to watching the DVD treatment, and am happy to say it's still a great movie gauranteed to give you a creeping case of the willies.
"Kingdom of the Spiders" is another 1970's nature-gone-crazy flick. It came out when a plethora of such films were filling movie and drive-in screens every week, movies like "The Pack", "Grizzly", "Day of the Animals", "The Swarm" and "Prophecy" all featured hapless town folk and tourists meeting the worst nature has to offer. I guess thanks to "Jaws" Hollywood saw a chance to make some money and pumped these suckers out left and right. "Kingdom of the Spiders" actually works and delivers the chills you would want. How could it not? I mean the movie's premise is that tens of thousands of highly venomous tarantulas are over-running a small town. If you are as creeped out by spiders as I am...you will get goosebumps. And what makes it better is that these are the genuine item, real creepy crawlie spiders...not CGI.
So if you are looking for a fun little movie, one that has some unintentionally funny moments as well as some real chills, you should pick this up. You can't ask for more than William Shatner and 10,000 spiders all trying to share screen time!
Movie Review: Eight Hairy Legs Of Love...
Summary: 4 Stars
William Shatner is Robert "Rack" Hanson in this crawly magnum opus from John "Bud" Cardos. Rack is the veterinarian of a small town in Arizona. He's called out to a farm where a 200 lb. calf has taken ill. The calf dies and Rack is on the case! He sends a blood sample to the lab for tests, and finds out that the animal died from spider venom. This information is delivered to him by beautiful entimologist Diane Ashley (Tiffany Bolling). Together, they also learn that the venom is 5x more potent than normal tarantula venom. Rack is called back to the farmer's place after a "spider-hill" is found, containing a colony of hundreds of tarantulas. Later, the farmer's dog dies from another tarantula attack. The farmer burns the spider-hill with kerosene. Then, the farmer himself is attacked while driving down the freeway. He is found in a ravine, cocooned in webs. Meanwhile, some 20 more spider-mounds are discovered. Rack and Diane race to find a way to stop the onslaught, while the mayor decides to spray poison on the arachnid horde. The spraying is cut short when the pilot is killed in mid-air by our fuzzy friends! Eventually, Rack and Diane are barracaded in a lodge while the entire town is inundated by the tarantula army of death. KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS is a tale of what happens when we over-use pesticides. Much like "Frogs" or "Squirm", KOTS is an ecological revenge / horror film. Shatner is surprisingly restrained for most of the movie. Though he's more like a cowboy than a veterinarian, he does come off as genuine. Of course, my favorite actors were of the eight-legged variety! I liked this one a lot...Movie Review: What can I say? I liked it!
Summary: 4 Stars
First, I have to admit that it took me about three evenings to get through this because I kept falling asleep. It's good trash, but not gripping trash unless you have a thing about spiders--I imagine it would keep you awake just fine in that case.
The acting was lame enough to be thoroughly enjoyable, the predictability of the plot was reassuring (principled veterinarian cautions town officials, who are planning a county fair, that they should hold off on the fair because the spiders are coming, officials don't, officials die), the spiders were cool, and the supposedly horrifying bits were just horrifying enough.
I live in Arizona and let me tell you that you would be hard-pressed to lose a foot race with a tarantula, even though you have only two feet and they have eight. They just aren't speedy. And any bovine that allowed itself to get covered with them could hardly have been very healthy to start. Oh well. The facts didn't get in the way of my willing suspension of disbelief in this case.
So...watch it if you like the Animals vs. Man genre of sci fi...it's fun and the ending is different.
Movie Review: A great bad movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This probabably deserves a half-star, but within the context of all time stinkers -- I'll give it 4 stars. Shatner is over the top. But you knew that. The opening scene where he ropes a cow, and then his sister-in-law (his brother is dead and something may or may not be budding between the two), sets the stage for howlers to come. Shatner is in full middle-aged TJ Hooker mode, looking vigorous as he can, running, roping, and burning spiders. The real winner in this film is not the spiders -- but the script, which is really (and unintentionally)funny. Shatner tells his (other)lady to sit in the car -- repeatedly, to get the hammer and nails, and of course to eat, also repeatedly. And all after she has made pains to point our her feminist credentials upon her arrival in spiderville. But that was before she met a real man in Captain Kirk (in what must of been his first toupee). In many ways this movie rips off The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, and no doubt others, but in doing so stakes out stinky turf that is truly its own.