This film is a bit like others during the 70's featuring an outcast who befriends something icky. Like Willard the rat film or Stanley the one with snakes. Unfortunately, this one features tarantulas, which are big, hairy and scary; however, they are not very lethal. If their venom was a sauce from taco bell it would be mild. So, not the best premise in the world, but then again films use tarantulas all the time because they are hairy and scary, but if you know anything about them, you also know that they would not really be something that kills anyone. In the end, though, the spiders seemed to be left out of the last portion of the film.
The story has a girl who likes spiders and her mom despises them and seems to despise her child too. She is also having an affair with her husband's brother and they plan on killing the husband. Too bad, the daughter overhears this and kills the mother by putting a spider on her! A spider that simply walks on a sheet over the woman. I would be freaked out a little, but I have the capability of swatting it off. Then the girl is a teen who is rather attractive, but she is apparently ostracized as this is some sort of bizarre alternate world. Some teens break in to her dad's mortuary and plan on stealing a coffin and instead kill one of her spiders that sets her on the path of revenge and lucky for her, no one is capable of simply squishing the spiders as they die in various unbelievable ways. Then her uncle, who is into his niece, kills someone in the hopes of making a life with his niece so the niece has a wonder plan to dispatch him as long as no one has good hearing at the funeral.
The film is just so unrealistic and just plan stupid for the most part. Once again, why no one in this film knows how to squish a spider are simply brush them off is beyond me. The characters are all unlikable and all deserve comeuppance with the exception of the dad who is just clueless.
So, not the best of the icky animal lover films. Never saw Willard in all its glory since I was a kid, but I am going to say that has to be the best of the bunch followed by Stanley because venomous snakes are at least a bit more believable than tarantulas. This one, just is a girl who uses spiders to kill and then the film seemed to forget the spiders. Perhaps they had to turn them all in as the rental fees were getting too high?
The story has a girl who likes spiders and her mom despises them and seems to despise her child too. She is also having an affair with her husband's brother and they plan on killing the husband. Too bad, the daughter overhears this and kills the mother by putting a spider on her! A spider that simply walks on a sheet over the woman. I would be freaked out a little, but I have the capability of swatting it off. Then the girl is a teen who is rather attractive, but she is apparently ostracized as this is some sort of bizarre alternate world. Some teens break in to her dad's mortuary and plan on stealing a coffin and instead kill one of her spiders that sets her on the path of revenge and lucky for her, no one is capable of simply squishing the spiders as they die in various unbelievable ways. Then her uncle, who is into his niece, kills someone in the hopes of making a life with his niece so the niece has a wonder plan to dispatch him as long as no one has good hearing at the funeral.
The film is just so unrealistic and just plan stupid for the most part. Once again, why no one in this film knows how to squish a spider are simply brush them off is beyond me. The characters are all unlikable and all deserve comeuppance with the exception of the dad who is just clueless.
So, not the best of the icky animal lover films. Never saw Willard in all its glory since I was a kid, but I am going to say that has to be the best of the bunch followed by Stanley because venomous snakes are at least a bit more believable than tarantulas. This one, just is a girl who uses spiders to kill and then the film seemed to forget the spiders. Perhaps they had to turn them all in as the rental fees were getting too high?