''Earth vs The Spider'' (1957)

By Crusader1307

  Bert Gordon, Father of ''B'' and Exploitation Movies in the 1950s and 1960s (sorry Ed Wood Fans), produced His 1957 Black & White Sci-Fi-Horror Film ''Earth vs The Spider'' on a $100,000 (USD) budget. While most films of the ''Giant Mutated Beast'' genre of The Era ''tanked'' in terms of revenue return, they nonetheless became staples of American Drive-Ins everywhere, This film is right up there. Actually, when released it was ''well received'' by Critics (which was strange). Campy acting and even hokier special effects run rampant. Remade in 2001 (in color with a bigger budget), the original still ''stands alone''. The Plot is simple. A Giant Spider (of the Tarantula species) lives in a Cave outside of Town. Discovered by accident, The Spider attacks and drains it's victims of all bodily fluids leaving a dried husk behind. As the bodies mount up, The Spider is finally discovered and supposedly killed by massive doses of DDT (insecticide). Taken back to Town for study, apparently The Town should have gotten it's money back from The Pest Exterminator for The Spider comes back to life.

Attacking a nearby High School (of course), and trying to eat a School Band practicing for a Dance (it was the 1950s so you had to have teenagers playing Rock N' Roll in a Movie, right ) - our Spider makes it back to it's Cave. Special electrodes to zap The Bug. Stunned, it falls onto stalagmite on the Cave floor and is impaled. The origins of The Spider aren't quite known, although we assume that it was that pesky Atomic Radiation (which was ''present'' in all 1950s Sci-Fi and Horror Films).