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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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

Eight showgirls, rugged manly man manager Gary Webster (smoothly played by Alexander D'Arcy), and Gary's strict assistant Georgia (a solid portrayal by Helga Franck) seek refuge on a remote tropical island after surviving a plane crash. However, said island turns out to be overrun by giant lethal spiders. Gary transforms into a ferocious predatory subhuman beast complete with claws and fangs in the wake of being bitten by one of the spiders.While director Fritz Bottger fails to generate much in the way of either tension or creepy atmosphere, he nonetheless keeps the entertainingly silly story moving along at a reasonable pace and delivers a pleasing plethora of tasty cheesecake. The catty and backbiting behavior of the fiercely competitive models serves as a key source of campy amusement (we even get the obligatory catfight). Moreover, the occasional use of blatant stock footage, cruddy dubbing, tacky (not so) special effects (Gary's shabby paper mache make-up in particular is positively gut-busting), wonky continuity, a ridiculous dance party sequence, and the overall shoddy production values all give this picture a certain endearingly rough'n'ready kitschy charm. The gals portraying the models are pretty hot as well, with Helga Neuner as the foxy Ann, Dorethee Parker as the pretty Gladys, Gerry Sammer as the fetching May, and Elfie Wagner as the voluptuous Linda rating as the definite sizzling stand-outs. Georg Krause's crisp black and white cinematography provides a few neat visuals. The groovy jazz score by Karl Bette and Willy Mattes hits the swinging spot. Fun rubbish.

With a title like this I was expecting a much different movie than I got. This is mostly a sexploitation film with scantily clad women, that was probably somewhat risqué for it's time. The plot has to do with a plane full of models crashing near a remote island. They don't notice any giant spiders on the island except for the dead professor in a large web. You won't notice any giant spiders either. The terrible effects consist of a few spiders as big as dogs, that look more like sloths than arachnids. One bites a guy and he turns into what I guess is supposed to be a half human spider, but the makeup job looks more wolf-like. He scares a few models, but that's it for the horror. Overall, this movie can't decide if it's a horror, action or love story . . .it is definitely not good enough to pull off all three genres. If you are looking for somewhat cheezy and fun spider flicks I'd recommend "Earth Vs. The Spider" or "Tarantula". If you're a completist, try to pick this one up somewhere for a couple of bucks, otherwise forget it.

An all female dance troupe and their manager Gary (Alexander D'Arcy) are en route to Singapore when their plane catches fire and ditches into the sea. Somehow, Gary and a handful of his dancers survive the disaster and, after several days adrift in an inflatable raft, chance upon a remote tropical island that is home to a monstrous spider whose bite causes terrible mutations.Horrors of Spider Island started life as a German adults-only feature, but was subsequently trimmed of most of its nude scenes and turned into a cheesy horror flick for the US market, all of which goes to explain why the film seems more concerned with titillating its viewers than terrifying them.The opening scene sees Gary auditioning a series of sexy 60s babes who flaunt their generous curves, show off their long legs (clad in sussies and stockings, of course) and even strip down to their their underwear in an effort to secure a job; once the action moves to the island and the girls adopt tropical attire, barely a minute goes by without a glimpse of bare thigh, a flash of cleavage, a tempting expanse of mid-riff, or the sight of a shapely rear; and when two men arrive on the island ready to party, the wanton women are only too happy to oblige. This smörgåsbord of cheesecake and smut is accompanied by a wonderful jazz soundtrack that wouldn't seem out of place in a seedy 60s go-go strip joint, and which helps to propel the film into the uppermost reaches of the trashosphere.As far as the horror is concerned, all we get is the giant spider—a very peculiar looking creature with alien-like eyes and what look like teeny hands at the end of its legs—and one mutated bite victim, who grows fangs, facial hair and an impressive set of claws with which to terrorise the women.On top of all of the eye-candy and lacklustre horror, viewers are also treated to dreadful dubbing, terrible acting, amateurish direction, some poorly choreographed brawls (including the obligatory cat-fight), and plenty of unintentional laughs (try keeping a straight face at the dancers' reactions when the plane is about to crash, or Gary's inexplicable knowledge of Uraniam mining equipment), all of which go to make this one seriously bad movie that no self-respecting fan of kitsch Z-grade garbage should miss.