THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION

Movies : Horror : DVD Rip : English

Running Time: 76 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States 1975

cast + crew

Bill Rebane

Director

Barbara Hale

Dr Jenny Langer

Steve Brodie

Dr Vance

Leslie Parrish

Ev Kester

Alan Hale, Jr

Sheriff

Robert Easton

Sam Kester

Kevin Brodie

Davy Perkins

Christiane Schmidtmer

Helga

Bill Williams

Dutch

Tain Bodkin

Preacher

Paul Bentzen

Billy

Richard L Huff

From Story

Richard L Huff

screenplay

Robert Easton

screenplay

Bill Rebane

Producer

Richard L Huff

Producer

William W Gillett

Executive Producer

Jack Willoughby

Associate Producer

Dick Plautz

Associate Produce



The giant spider-queen in The Giant Spider Invasion looks ridiculous, but director Bill Rebane still manages a few effective moments, like the scene in which a wolf-spider drops into Leslie Parrish's blender as she's mixing a Bloody Mary. The audience knows it's there, but the Kesters don't, creating a funny/nervous sequence as they shuffle the glass between them, picking it up and almost drinking several times until Parrish gets a mouthful of creepy-crawly. There's also a fairly impressive bit in which the spider-queen devours a man alive, pushing his body slowly into its gaping maw with huge hairy fangs. Unfortunately, Rebane continually undercuts the film with unconvincing long shots of the spider shuffling across the plains (at one point it's obviously a Volkswagen

with a carpet on top) and absolutely awful sub-Hee-Haw humor. Alan Hale Jr. himself is the prime offender here, exemplified by his look at a Geiger-counter: "We don't have any Geigers 'round these parts." The two scientists also get unintentional laughs with goofy theorizing about quantuum mechanics and particle-beams, which seems extremely out of place amidst the Kornfield Kounty ambience of the film. This is a perversely entertaining disaster.