the audience applauded

Strong and Moving!

How sad is this?

Fresh and Exciting

I've only seen this in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode, but judging from the synopses that I've read, very little material of any importance was cut.An international impresario, Gary, is flying a planeload of showgirls to Singapore for an engagement (the film begins with the auditions). However, the plan crashes in the South Pacific, killing the pilot and crew. Gary and the showgirls manage to make it to a small island in a rubber raft. There, they find a deserted hut with the body of a man suspended in a giant spider web - he was apparently a scientist looking for uranium on the island. Soon after, Gary goes out for a walk and is bitten by a spider around the size of a small dog. He kills it, but its bite results in his turning into a monster. He begins to prey on the showgirls.First of all, the synopsis on IMDb is inaccurate, since there is only one spider and the one person bitten does not turn into a spider, but a sort of weird "were-spider" hybrid. However, that hardly makes a difference, because this is a terrible movie, and maybe the most sexist film I have ever seen. It's really much more of a sexploitation film than a horror film; the horror content is pretty light. The showgirls who end up on the island are portrayed as completely brainless and helpless without men around. When two men arrive in a rowboat with supplies for the dead scientist, the women are only too happy to have sex with complete strangers because they are SO hungry for men.The film is also really shoddy technically. The special effects are laughable. The big (but not giant) spider that originally bites Gary looks like a cartoon menace and the "were-spider" that Gary becomes looks a bit scary, but sure doesn't look anything like a spider. In his excellent book on 50's (and early 60's) SF films, "Keep Watching the Skies," Bill Warren reviews this under the title "Horrors of Spider Island." He gives it a negative review, but his review still didn't prepare me for how shockingly amateurish this film was. Proof that continental Europeans can make low-budget films just as badly as the Americans!

I acquired this flick in the Horrorlicious 9-pack. This particular movie is a real bore. I guess it has a few funny scenes that were never meant to be funny in it but that's about it.For the guys out there - this film does have quite a number of sexy looking women in it. But for fans of sci-fi and horror this film can easily be passed up because it's rather boring. It's a little comical in it's way but overall a bore-fest of women being sexy for the one man they became stranded on the island with in the beginning of the film.We all realize this is a B film (more like Z) put out in the year 1960 but the spiders are so funny you will laugh at the "Horrors of the Film" instead of being creeped out by the spiders. Large spiders that stalk the people. When Gary gets bit and turns into Spiderman the film the movie gets funnier instead of creepier.The film is worth 1 star but I'll give it a 2 for the chuckles I get out of the film.2/10

Here we have a German black-and-white film from over 50 years ago, which managed quite an achievement. It is bad enough to make in to the list of the 100 worst films in film history on the biggest movie website of the world. Yes it is German, even if there are copies with English language out there and even if the director and some of the cast used American pseudonyms. The director is Fritz Böttger and it was his 3rd and final film behind the camera. He wrote many more though.The cast is predominantly female. A group of dancers has a plane crash, but (what a miracle!) they all survive and are just hungry and thirsty. So they reach an island, but sadly they are not alone. One of the very few males in this film is bitten by some kind of spider monster and transforms into a spider human himself afterward. But not the Spider Man hero kind. A furry, scary looking creature which is out there to kill.This 75-minute film could have been fun actually, if the spider monster would have killed the girls one by one, but the actual outcome is not so bad that it's funny, it's so bad that it's real bad. The girls keep (cat)fighting for no reason really and the males fight too, but then all of a sudden in a scene near the end it was just harmless fun. But the worst thing in this film is probably all the sexual bait. Literally, every third scene we see one or more women making suggestive gestures obviously aimed at getting male audience members horny and thus tricking them into believing this was not a complete rubbish film. From the female cast, one actress died shortly afterward when she fell out of her apartment's window, while another (Barbara Valentin) actually had a great career working a lot with Fassbinder. The other actresses aren't particularly known and did not appear in too many films and those that they appeared in were all fairly forgettable.I do not care about what MST3000 did with this movie as they are idiots and don't know a thing about quality movies, only possessing the (lack of) ability to put down films. However, I have to say that this film here is not a good watch at all. Pretty much exactly the opposite. The writing is bad. The acting is even worse. Stay far far away.

Goodness, where to start!? The makers of this movie took a German horror-porn film, edited out all nudity and sex scenes, and repackaged it as a horror film aimed at children. The result is everything you would expect from a movie that has had its very reason for being cut out.There's no real plot, no character development, and no budget to speak of. The monster costume is absolutely pitiful, and the monster is so slow moving that only a geriatric, a blind person, or a complete moron would be in any danger from it. Of course these bimbos, in addition to being annoying and poorly dubbed, are idiots, and are imperiled by the spider/wolf/man thing. Not that it ever comes close to being scary.Frankly, the parts that were removed were probably the only ones anyone would have found worth watching, but there's still far too much sleaze for me to be remotely comfortable with the idea of children watching this trash. It was so pathetic that I stopped watching halfway through. And that was the MST3K version!