Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
1958 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. Bert I. Gordon
The Spider will eat you alive!
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
Synopsis
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Bert I. Gordon
- Writer
- George Worthing Yates
- Composer
- Albert Glasser
- Cinematography
- Jack A. Marta
- Studio
- Santa Rosa Productions, American International Pictures
- Released
- 1958-09-01
- Running time
- 73 minutes
Cast & crew
Bert I. Gordon Director
Ed Kemmer
June Kenney- Eugene Persson
Gene Roth- Hal Torey
June Jocelyn
Mickey Finn
Sally Fraser
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Could this be Tarantula? · Gustave Malheur · 2026-06-02
A wonderful specimen of the late 50ies Horror movies. A B picture, certainly, filmed in the wake of Tarantula, yet with outstanding performance of the actors–trying to seem 'glued to the giant spider's web'. If only the book writers had been a little bit more scrupoulous. So, please, don't wonder about the adult college boy, the freshly painted Danger sign at the old cave's entrance, or the illuminated cave (great, so you don't need any lamps in there...), or or or... Great fun–enjoy!
