Earth Vs. The Spider is drive-in material if I ever saw it. The kind of film that you can relax at the drive-in and not miss a lot as you get down to business with your significant other.
This film gets confused a lot with Tarantula, they're about the same though I would give not want to split the difference either way.
Two kids Eugene Persson and June Kenney are the protagonists, they find the cave where the giant arachnid hangs out and which has been rumored to be haunted for years. Later on they go back to the cave looking for a present that the girl dropped and have a second encounter with the big spider.
These two kids are dumb, but they can't be held accountable because they've got a colossally dumb science teacher in Ed Kemmer. He goes along with the sheriff to rescue them the first time and they think the big guy's dead after all kinds of giant quantities of DDT are sprayed at him. All it does is put him in arachnid coma.
The sheriff wants to blow up the cave and bury the body, but no Kemmer says he'd make a great exhibit for study. So they take the body and store it at the high school gym. In the meantime the local rock and roll band doing a little practice wakes him from his coma and everybody has to do it all over again.
Some of those Fifties science fiction movies were better than others. Earth Vs. The Spider is not on the A list.
This film gets confused a lot with Tarantula, they're about the same though I would give not want to split the difference either way.
Two kids Eugene Persson and June Kenney are the protagonists, they find the cave where the giant arachnid hangs out and which has been rumored to be haunted for years. Later on they go back to the cave looking for a present that the girl dropped and have a second encounter with the big spider.
These two kids are dumb, but they can't be held accountable because they've got a colossally dumb science teacher in Ed Kemmer. He goes along with the sheriff to rescue them the first time and they think the big guy's dead after all kinds of giant quantities of DDT are sprayed at him. All it does is put him in arachnid coma.
The sheriff wants to blow up the cave and bury the body, but no Kemmer says he'd make a great exhibit for study. So they take the body and store it at the high school gym. In the meantime the local rock and roll band doing a little practice wakes him from his coma and everybody has to do it all over again.
Some of those Fifties science fiction movies were better than others. Earth Vs. The Spider is not on the A list.