One of my all time favorites.

Fresh and Exciting

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

***SPOILERS*** The only release of the now long defunct Cinema-VC Studios with it's star Suzanna Ling's-As spider loving Susan Bradley-first and last movie appearance the film "Kiss of the Tarantula" has to do with Susan getting revenge against those who killed , by stepping on it, her pet tarantula Albert by using a hoard of tarantula spiders that she bred in her basement to do in those that give her and her beloved pet spiders such a hard time. Using the spiders who are in fact really harmless-tarantulas are non-poisonous- but terrifying to look at to do in those that cause her all this trouble.It was Susan's mom Martha, Beverly Eddins, who was her first victim who didn't care much for her pet spiders and was cheating on her undertaker husband John, Herman Wellner, with his brother the town chief of police uncle Walter Bradley, Eric Mason, behind his brother John's back. It's later that Susan took care of those who killed her pet tarantula Albert by dropping a dozen of Albert's or fellow spiders into a car that they were making out in at the local drive-in scaring them all to death or out of their minds and into a coma. It was Bo Havens, Ron Prather, who saw what Susan did who she later dispatched with her tarantulas scaring him to death to keep him from talking to the police.***SPOILERS*** The final nail in the coffin came to her sex crazed and murderous uncle Walter who's plan all along was to get Susan into the sack with him only to end up getting the shaft by her. That's when he was left immobile, by being pushed down a flight of stairs, by Susan and sealed into an air tight coffin, with one of his victims, at her father's mortuary never to see the light of day, or breathing in any fresh air, again.

Mortician's daughter Susan Bradley likes to play with spiders, much to the disgust of her adulterous mother Martha (Beverly Eddins), who is having an affair with Susan's uncle Walter (Eric Mason), the local sheriff. When Susan overhears the cheating couple plotting to kill her father, she releases a tarantula into her mother's bedroom during the night, scaring the woman to death.Years later, Susan (now played by Suzanna Ling) is still obsessed with spiders, keeping a collection of the hairy horrors in the basement of her father's funeral home. After a group of school bullies start to make her life a misery, Susan once again uses her eight-legged friends to settle the score, and finally gets even with her pervy Uncle Walter.Scaring a victim to death with spiders isn't the most reliable way to commit a murder—not everyone is arachnophobic, the critters might run away from rather than towards the intended victim, or they might simply get squished—but as unlikely as it might seem, the plan works like a dream for Susan, making this a very silly film indeed. This might not be a problem, but director Chris Munger's handling of the action is so uninspired that the whole thing proves rather dull as well as daft.As a card-carrying arachnophobe, I should have been on the edge of my seat every time the spiders are unleashed; instead, I was merely bored. Kudos to the actors who let the tarantulas crawl over their face and hands, but it really wasn't worth the effort. For a much more enjoyable '70s spider feature, watch Kingdom of the Spiders—it's got William Shatner in it, for starters

Before KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS revolutionized the use of spiders as villains in horror films, there was KISS OF THE TARANTULA. Made on a miniscule budget with a no-name cast, KISS is easily one of the worst horror films of the 70s. Promising chills and delivering nil, this one is not even recommended to bad movie fans.A young girl grows up displaying an infatuation with spiders and in her teen years, uses them as tools in killing her vicious, hateful classmates. Sounds good, right? Wrong! This is the sypnopsis given in every movie guide and is not the majority of the film. There are approximately three tarantula attacks and the rest is a plot by the girl to get rid of her incestuous uncle. No, she does not use the spiders on her uncle. She instead breaks his legs and buries him alive! The spider scenes are not effective, even for an arachnophobe for me. One standout scene is when a swarm of tarantulas chase down a man in a closed airduct, which is both claustrophobic and horrifying! That's it, that's the only thing about the movie that I can recommend.I spent $15 buying this and wish I hadn't. Don't make the mistake I did. Either rent it, or better yet, don't even do that! Avoid KISS OF THE TARANTULA! It is a waste of time and money for all involved, including the viewer.

I would say that this was inspired by the success of Willard which came out the previous year but the action is provided by spiders instead of rats. How about the scenes at the drive-in movie theatre? A volkswagen contains four victims who are screaming at the top of their lungs and no one comes to investigate. Were they and the spider woman the only ones at the drive-in? The spider woman spends time fending off the lecherous advances of her uncle, played by Eric Mason, whose acting style reminded me of William Shatner.