PodBill Just what I expected

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

AaronCapenBanner Two teenagers on a date(played by June Kenny & Eugene Persson) explore a cavern and stumble upon a gigantic spider(tarantula). Terrified, they escape from it and go for help. The authorities "kill" it with DDT, but a scientist(played by Ed Kemmer) wants to study it to see how it got so big. Big mistake, since the spider isn't dead, merely inactive, and after listening to a Rock & Roll band in the school gymnasium(where it is being kept!), awakens and goes on a rampage through town. Can it be stopped before everyone is killed? Bert I. Gordon directed this typical film of his, with inadequate F/X and a thin story. Some tension in the cavern, but too silly otherwise.

Woodyanders A giant mutant arachnid goes on a destructive rampage in a small town. Director Bert I. Gordon, working from a tight script by Laszlo Gorog and George Worthing Yates, relates the entertaining story at a steady pace, makes effectively creepy use of the Carlsbad Caverns, further spruces things up with a few fairly gruesome touches (the spider sucks out the juices from its victims and leaves dried-out pruney corpses in its lethal wake), maintains a serious tone throughout, and builds a reasonable amount of tension in the thrilling climax. June Kenny as the fetching Carol Flynn and Mike Simpson as the likable Mike Simpson make for an appealing teen couple. Edward Kemmer does well as smart and helpful high school science teacher Professor Art Kingman. Familiar character actor Gene Roth has a neat part as the initially skeptical Sheriff Cagle. Granted, the special effects aren't so hot (or convincing, for that matter), but they do add to this film's considerable innocent charm. Jack A. Marta's crisp black and white cinematography does the trick. Albert Glasser's spirited shuddery score hits the robust'n'rousing bull's eye. The concise 73 minute running time ensures that this picture never becomes tedious or overstays its welcome. Moreover, this movie possesses a certain sweet and inoffensive wide-eyed sincerity that's impossible to either resist or dislike. A fun little flick.

qormi Really bad film. The acting is okay, but the plot is very thin.One of the teenagers looks to be forty. A giant tarantula lives in a cave. How did it get so big? No answer given. The special effects were very lame. The spider's web was just a rope net - crisscross square pattern - nothing like a spider's web. The spider kept making noises like a mountain lion. The spider kept changing sizes. One minute, it's larger than a two story house; then it's ten feet long. The corpses that had their juices sucked out by the spider resembled aliens - big white heads, huge almond-shaped eyes. Dumb. Spraying copious amounts of DDT into a cave, more than ten times the industrial strength, and nobody so much as rubs their nose. An unresolved scene where a crying,bloodied toddler walks past a car wreck in the wake of the spider's rampage. Unresolved, needlessly disturbing. The spider's shots were almost all live action shots of a real tarantula. The film never showed the spider killing anyone - all inferred. Cheap, unimaginitive production. The velveeta of cheesy films.

toddsterfridaythfan If you're looking for a classic-style American movie, try out Earth vs. The Spider. I won't say it's an actual classic itself, but it has all the elements that make low budget American drive in horror fun.Emotional teenagers: check. Skeptical, good ol' boy sheriff: check. Bit of mumbo jumbo scientific talk: got it. Killer giant insect: bingo.The whole production has a cheerfulness about it that I like. The small town, the high school janitor, the wanton use of DDt--there's an innocence about all these elements. Remember, with a movie like this, its about fun and not about being scared. Earth vs the Spider is a minor, but fun effort.