Writers: Herbert Tevos, Orville H. Hampton
Composer: Hoyt Curtin
Starring: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot, Paula Hill, Robert Knapp, Tandra Quinn, Chris-Pin Martin, Harmon Stevens, Nico Lek, Kelly Drake, John Martin, George Barrows, Dolores Fuller
More info: IMDb
Tagline: A race of deadly spider-women luring men to their death!
Plot: A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
My rating: 3/10
Will I watch it again? No.
Narration opens the picture and there's a lot of it.
It sounds like a bunch of jabbering and it runs on for a few minutes but it's
so entertainingly spoken by silver screen veteran, Lyle Talbot, that it doesn't
matter. I was rather sad to hear it stop. This flick is dull.
Nothing much happens and it's hardly an excuse to make a movie.
Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester from THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964)) adds little.
Granted, he's not in it much despite top billing. For as much as I LOVE
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, I still find it difficult to see Uncle Fester under that
goatee and lower voice. Hoyt Curtin's repetitive score (of mostly quick
strumming guitar and sometimes with piano) is just plain lazy and it hurts
the pacing even more. About thirty years ago I interviewed Curtin on a
radio series I was working on regarding writing music for animation (he wrote
the themes and music for most of Hanna Barbera's TV shows like THE JETSONS and
THE FLINTSTONES) and when I mentioned this picture, his sole feature film, he
chuckled and came back with, "The less said about that, the better."
and laughed some more. I agree.
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