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Horrors of Spider Island (1962)

1962 · Feature film · 74 min · dir. Fritz Böttger

  • Horror

Synopsis

Horrors of Spider Island is a 1960 West German horror film written and directed by Fritz Böttger, and produced by Gaston Hakim and Wolf C. Hartwig for Rapid-Film/Intercontinental Filmgesellschaft. The film stars Alexander D'Arcy, Barbara Valentin and Rainer Brandt.

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Details

Director
Fritz Böttger
Writer
Eldon Howard
Composer
Karl Bette
Cinematography
Georg Krause
Studio
Rapid Film, Intercontinental Film GmbH
Released
1960-04-15
Original title
Ein Toter hing im Netz
Running time
74 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · The 'Gone with the Wind' of Drive In Films · Spy Smasher · 2012-11-12

...except Better! About 200 times better and more Fun than any movie Hollywood has made in the last 15 years. Viewers of this Classic will not be subjected to any vile profanity, plastic enhanced tattooed Scags, no Fem males, no Obama loving minorities, and no mindless liberal pot heads. The girls are sexy and pretty and the men are normal and that's the way we liked in the 60's.

★★★★ · Magnificent comedy! · SedonaShadow · 2009-12-26

No one can tell me this was not tongue in cheek! Even Roger Corman would be rolling in the aisles!

★★★ · Hot chics (old school) · helm101 · 2018-01-07

Well there's a girl fight and some flesh. So you decide. I don't have clue what the story is about.

★★ · Original Cut? · SonOfChaos · 2009-07-09

According to the interwebs, this film was a recut of It's Hot In Paradise, they just removed all the nudity (save the barely visible skinny dipping) so they could unleash the movie on the poor poor masses. Not a good flick, would like to see the original though.

★ · I wonder if a 16 year old... · Aitchondo · 2009-02-28

...would give it 5 stars as a previous reviewer stated. I tried it on a grandson. His review- "The opening scene was really neat with the old cars and at about thirty minutes in, the spider was neat in its badness. The movie really sucked and you owe me big time, Grandpa, for even asking me to watch it. 1 star cause they don't have a half star" I'll trust his judgment and skip this one.

★ · Yuck! · katpooh9 · 2009-02-28

The plot barely existed. The spider barely existed. I guess it was used as some kind of excuse to get a bunch of catty, almost nude women together on an island so they could fight each other and enjoy guys leering at them. All throughout the movie the ears are tortured by stupid sexy woman music. I was wishing I could fast-forward through most of it. In other words, a sixteen-year old boy would give it five stars.

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