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.