Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

Micransix Crappy film

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

derenk66-1 I've only seen this in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode, but judging from the synopses that I've read, very little material of any importance was cut.An international impresario, Gary, is flying a planeload of showgirls to Singapore for an engagement (the film begins with the auditions). However, the plan crashes in the South Pacific, killing the pilot and crew. Gary and the showgirls manage to make it to a small island in a rubber raft. There, they find a deserted hut with the body of a man suspended in a giant spider web - he was apparently a scientist looking for uranium on the island. Soon after, Gary goes out for a walk and is bitten by a spider around the size of a small dog. He kills it, but its bite results in his turning into a monster. He begins to prey on the showgirls.First of all, the synopsis on IMDb is inaccurate, since there is only one spider and the one person bitten does not turn into a spider, but a sort of weird "were-spider" hybrid. However, that hardly makes a difference, because this is a terrible movie, and maybe the most sexist film I have ever seen. It's really much more of a sexploitation film than a horror film; the horror content is pretty light. The showgirls who end up on the island are portrayed as completely brainless and helpless without men around. When two men arrive in a rowboat with supplies for the dead scientist, the women are only too happy to have sex with complete strangers because they are SO hungry for men.The film is also really shoddy technically. The special effects are laughable. The big (but not giant) spider that originally bites Gary looks like a cartoon menace and the "were-spider" that Gary becomes looks a bit scary, but sure doesn't look anything like a spider. In his excellent book on 50's (and early 60's) SF films, "Keep Watching the Skies," Bill Warren reviews this under the title "Horrors of Spider Island." He gives it a negative review, but his review still didn't prepare me for how shockingly amateurish this film was. Proof that continental Europeans can make low-budget films just as badly as the Americans!

SanteeFats The only reason to watch this horrible horror film is the bikini clad female dance troupe, MAYBE. The plot is actually not that bad but the execution (maybe the writer should have been?) is very poor. A plane crashes near an unknown island yet it has white people on it!! Now if you grew up in the 50's and 60's like I did the girls are pretty nice in their bikinis. If you are younger you probably won't appreciate them as today's females seem to be a lot less in some respects. As is to be expected in such an old film the special effects aren't special at all. There is some romance but the troupe's manager is just a womanizing roue. He does get his by the end of the movie.

Uriah43 This film (also known as "Horrors of Spider Island") starts off with a manager by the name of "Gary Webster" (Alexander D'Arcy) and his assistant "Georgia" (Helga Franck) hiring some attractive female dancers to perform in Singapore. On the flight there the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and the group ends up stranded on an island. When Gary is bitten by a large radioactive spider he becomes transformed into a monster which seeks to kill the women one by one. Now, while some might consider this an intriguing concept this film never really capitalizes on it in any meaningful way. Instead, rather than providing any horror or significant action, all the viewer gets to see are interpersonal dynamics between the women which is amplified when two men arrive by boat. The acting wasn't very good and none of the actors or actresses really stood out in any way. Also, because it was originally filmed in German and dubbed in English the dialogue seemed rather basic and clumsy. In short, this movie may have had some potential but it never achieved it.

wbswetnam What do you get when you mix sexy eurobabes, a few very lucky guys, a two-foot "moster" spider, a dead scientist and an uncharted island? You get the Horrors of Spider Island, of course! This thinly veiled "horror" movie is a sexploitation film featuring "dancers" en route to Singapore when their plane catches fire and slams into the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour. Of course, nearly all of them emerge without even a scratch. They make their way to an uncharted island where they waste no time making skimpy furry bathing suits to frolic around in. The women spend the majority of the time entertaining the men (!!!) and getting into occasional cat-fights with each other. There is a radioactive spider something-or-other which bites some guy who turns into a spider monster of course, but this doesn't seem the perturb the women too much. They're having too much fun getting naked and stuff.This movie is great camp and made great fodder for MST3K. Thanks, Bill Rebane, for yet another Z-grade movie!