THIS SATURDAY ON SVENGOOLIE (January 30, 2021): Earth Vs. The Spider
This Saturday on Svengoolie is the 1958 film EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, also known as THE SPIDER. This black-and-white science fiction/horror film was produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also wrote the story upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based. The film stars Ed Kemmer, June Kenney and Eugene Persson. The special effects were by Gordon and Paul Blaisdell. EARTH VS. THE SPIDER was released by American International Pictures as a double feature in different film markets with either THE BRAIN EATERS or THE SCREAMING SKULL.
Jack Flynn is driving down a highway at night looking at a bracelet he has bought his daughter for her birthday, when he hits something and his vehicle crashes. The next morning, his teenage daughter Carol is concerned that her ne’er-do-well father did not come home the night before. She convinces her boyfriend Mike to assist in a search for her father. They find his crashed truck and the bracelet, but not his body. Thinking he crawled into a nearby cave, they investigate. In the cave, they fall onto the gigantic web of an enormous tarantula, which emerges from behind some rocks to attack them.
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