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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Sexy '70s William Shatner wears a sexy peach coloured shirt and tight sexy trousers while taking on some not so sexy killer tarantulas.Shatner plays Rack, a horse riding, lasso throwing, heartbreakin' desert veterinarian. After a local farmer's livestock and family pets start dropping unexpectedly, a hot blonde lady scientist comes to town and decides the culprits are a highly venomous strain of tarantula. Shatner, spending most of his time trying to get her into bed by being the most manly of manly men (in a peach shirt, remember) doesn't really believe such nonsense. Well, not until the farmer says "well, they could be coming from that big spider hill I noticed this morning" anyway.The spider hill is summarily burnt, but quite carelessly they miss the other thirty spider hills a little way over yonder... Cue several angry spider attacks and a spider invasion of the local town using real tarantulas at every turn. No CGI here, no siree. Even Shatner (in a blue shirt now so thankfully not ruining his peach one) is covered by twenty or thirty of the little blighters at one point. The strange thing, and the thing I love about this film, is the sudden shift in tone during the last twenty minutes. What, for the most part is your average '70s killer bug matinée movie suddenly gets quite dark and ends on a note so bleak that John Carpenter obviously took notes for The Thing.Yes, it's dated. Yes, it's ridiculously camp and badly scripted ("Look, its not just a few spiders! It's a migration due to some sort of imbalance!") but due to some interesting camera angles, spooky music and use of actual spiders, it's also highly effective.

I admit that spiders scare the bejeezus out of me and that I'd probably feel a whole lot happier if every last one of them were removed from existence; however, as so many ecological horrors of the '70s have clearly illustrated, meddling with the balance of nature isn't wise, and doing so can only make matters a whole lot worse. For example, in Kingdom of the Spiders, the use of chemicals such as DDT have resulted in an army of resilient, deadly and very hungry tarantulas, five times as venomous as normal and a whole lot more aggressive. They also seem to have become more intelligent, which isn't good news for the good folk of Camp Verde, Arizona, who the spiders have decided to add to their larder.With a few thousand real tarantulas at his disposal, and a game cast more than willing to have the horrible creatures crawling all over their bodies for the sake of their art, director John 'Bud' Cardos delivers a B-movie horror guaranteed to have anyone with even the slightest case of arachnophobia squirming uncontrollably in their seats. Even if the idea of a dozen big-ass hairy spiders in the face doesn't faze you, there are plenty of other reasons to dig this fun drive-in flick: William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner as the hero, gorgeous Tiffany Bolling as his entomologist love interest, and cult actor Woody Strode as the token black guy guaranteed a horrible death; a hilarious scene in which the pilot of a biplane screams like a girl while tarantulas crawl on his head; a crazed steer brought to its knees by the spiders; and the entire town running amok as the creepy crawlies attack.All that and a truly memorable final image make this a hugely enjoyable piece of drive-in entertainment.

In a remote Arizona town animals are dying mysteriously or disappearing all together. The town doctor (William Shatner) and an entomologist (Tiffany Bolling) discover spiders are attacking and killing animals...and people might be next. But why and how? The answer is pretty silly but i won't give it away.This has been WAY overpraised by some horror fans. I hate spiders myself but this film didn't really work on me till the last half hour. The first hour has only one attack and is mostly talk and character development. What saves it from being very dull is that the dialogue isn't half bad, the characters ARE interesting and the acting is very good (Shatner and Bolling are excellent). The attacks kick in during the last half hour--THEN the movie works. They are quick and scary and these spiders appear everywhere! The sequence where the town is attacked is improbable (HOW did all those spiders get on people?) but has some really disturbing sequences of spiders crawling over dead people and spinning webs. The ending is chilling at first...but when you apply logic to any of this it falls apart.OK--the spiders are attacking and are very aggressive but they also seem to be super intelligent and figure out where humans will be. They also appear in places that it would be impossible for them to be and seriously--think about that ending. Do YOU believe it? If you're terrified of spiders this will work but this is nothing more than a well-done B film. I give it a 7.

No pun intended btw with the summary line. And I'm sure not everyone will like the ending. But I think it's almost the only way to end this. William Shatner is really great in this and you can feel him, playing the ridiculousness of the script. There are even scenes, were he "fights" with Spiders, were you could be excused thinking this was directed by Mr. Ed Wood.But of course this does has something to say and since the spiders were real (well at least most, maybe they a few plastic one thrown into the mix), this also feels real. Which must have been good and bad for the actors. Good because they didn't need a great motivation to act scared and bad ... because some actually must have been genuinely scared!Having said that, the movie does not have a big budget (I even read this might have been initially made for TV, although I'm not sure if that's true) and the dialog is off quite a few times. If that doesn't matter much to you, you will get a really quite good, eerie and scary horror movie.