Hairy but Harmless

Obviously John 'Bud' Cardos was counting on his hordes of hairy arachnids to carry the show. Let's just say he was over-optimistic. The film has only one horror effect — nasty big tarantulas crawling all over peoples' bodies — which is repeated over and over again. Unless you have an excessive fear of spiders (there must be a phobia to cover that), you're not likely to find it very frightening. And after a while it become downright boring.

Add to all this a specially composed soundtrack (by one Dorsey Burnette, if memory serves me correctly) of god-awful country and western songs, and you have all the making of a classic dud.

It's flicks like this that give horror films a bad name.

Paul Hagan