Monster of the Day #2050

Updated on December 26, 2019 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

I hope everyone had a great holiday. It was quiet but restful for me, which was nice. Here’s to New Year’s Day next week and then B-Fest in February. Whew! Time is a barrelling freight train.

Back to another Amazon Prime offering. I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority one this (for obvious) reasons, but since I was a kid I’ve always preferred Bert I Gordon’s Earth vs the Spider to Universal’s slicker Tarantula. The DVD (a double bill with War of the Colossal Beast) is long out of print, so it’s nice to have it available on Prime.

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  • Gamera977

    ‘Little Miss Muffet sat down at the Italian restaurant
    to eat her fettuccine alfredo
    and along came a giant spider
    and OH #$$@!!! ‘

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Huh, I just watched “Tarantula” the other day. Still holds up pretty well, and the score is fantastic (probably library music but it really works).

  • bgbear_rnh

    Hah, I watched this too Christmas Eve into Christmas morning to wind down after relative visit and clean up. I had the sound down using subtitles and Christmas Music playing.

    Fun film. I decided that Gene Roth was ad libbing quite a bit and that Alan Hale jr. was inspired by the performance when he took his turn with a giant spider.

  • While I did enjoy EvtS when I finally saw it, I preferred Tarantula and… er… The Giant Spider Invasion… over this.

    That said, it’s one of Bert I Gordon’s better flicks, and sure as hell beats out later fare like Empire of the They Can’t Kill These Characters Fast Enough.

  • Rock Baker

    I’ve long considered it an essential 50’s giant monster movie, possibly the definitive one. Giant spider, everytown USA setting, teen characters, Ed Kemmer as the hero. If all that weren’t enough, it boasts TWO of the sexiest women to ever be in pictures, Sally Fraser and June Kenney!

  • Rock Baker

    Fun trivia note, both giant spider movies include Hank Patterson!

  • bgbear_rnh

    Lady getting trapped with dress stuck in car door.

  • bgbear_rnh

    For my holiday viewing I also saw Barbara Pepper in “Bachelor Mother” so Hooterville was well represented.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I love that movie despite it being the root cause of my life-long arachnophobia after a childhood viewing.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, I admitted it was a minority view.

  • Ericb

    And a teen dance band with a conductor!

  • Eric Hinkle

    How many other people are amused by the scene in this movie where rock and roll brings the spider back from the dead? Though I have to wonder at the intelligence level of people who decide the best place to hold their hootenanny is right beside the massive maybe-not-dead man-eating arachnid.

  • Rock Baker

    To say nothing of Skip Young from Ozzie and Harriet being a part of the band!

  • Rock Baker

    In fairness, the drama club was rehearsing in the other hall. Until they came into the gym, meaning the boys could have moved everything to the other room anyway.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Okay but it was still a very poor idea.