KISS OF THE TARANTULA, filmed in ten days in Columbus, Georgia, followed invisibly in the wake of WILLARD, substituting spiders for rats.
Susan (Suzanna Ling), who as a little girl unleashed a deadly pet spider on her vain mother, lives a sequestered life with her mortician father. She thwarts three teenage hoodlums who attempt to steal a casket from her father's basement workshop; they terrorize her a bit and kill some of her spiders. In response, she tracks them down and lets the furry eight-leggers loose on them, gradually feeling less guilty with each killing. One victim is trapped in an air duct with a dozen creepy bugs marching toward him.
KISS OF THE TARANTULA is a supreme gross-out for spider-haters, though for the rest of us the action will seem tame. Though mostly undistinguished, the movie contain an alarming bit of typecasting for actor Eric Mason, who believably portrays Susan's sleazy, serpentine uncle. In the end, the uncle is rewarded for his lewd behavior in a buried-alive scene that is much scarier than any of the spider sequences.
Susan (Suzanna Ling), who as a little girl unleashed a deadly pet spider on her vain mother, lives a sequestered life with her mortician father. She thwarts three teenage hoodlums who attempt to steal a casket from her father's basement workshop; they terrorize her a bit and kill some of her spiders. In response, she tracks them down and lets the furry eight-leggers loose on them, gradually feeling less guilty with each killing. One victim is trapped in an air duct with a dozen creepy bugs marching toward him.
KISS OF THE TARANTULA is a supreme gross-out for spider-haters, though for the rest of us the action will seem tame. Though mostly undistinguished, the movie contain an alarming bit of typecasting for actor Eric Mason, who believably portrays Susan's sleazy, serpentine uncle. In the end, the uncle is rewarded for his lewd behavior in a buried-alive scene that is much scarier than any of the spider sequences.