Monday, August 3, 2020

German Spider Horrors





HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND-1960-A group of dumb models and strippers are stranded with their manager Gary (Alex D'Arcy) on an island after their plane crashes. On the island they find a house where there's an old man dead in a spider web. They learn that he was a professor working with uranium and spiders. At night Gary is walking around shirtless and a large spider bites him and he turns into a hairy faced monster with fangs. After one girl is killed, the rest bicker a lot while looking for Gary. Two researchers show up. There's a lot of romantic nonsense and the monster is forgotten until he attacks near the end and walks into quicksand. 

Everything about this innocuous West German horror film is terrible. Especially the SFX and drawn out story line. The director/writer Fritz Bottger is credited as Jamie Nolan in US prints (I'm sure he wouldn't want it any other way).

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