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Ev's younger sister Terry also lives at the farm with Ev and her revival-loving husband, but Terry is out on a date with a reporter called Dave and the young couple look all set to get down to some serious sinning of their own brothers and sisters. Let me hear you say Hallelujah!
While the citizens of Merrill, Wisconsin are all preoccupied in one way or another with sin, a meteor is heading towards earth and it lands close to the Kester's farmhouse, just as Dan arrives home to a very disgruntled Ev. When the meteor crash-lands it puts on quite a colourful display of fireworks but after a hard night of sinning Dan is too tired to go and investigate and heads for bed for the second time that night. Meanwhile, the falling meteor has shorted out the power in Dave's car and Terry has to walk home.
The next morning Dan and Ev go and investigate the area where the meteor crash-landed. Before they find the crater, though, they discover that all of their cows have been mysteriously killed in the night.
On reaching the crater they find lots of strange, round rocks strewn around the area. Neither Ev nor Dan have ever seen anything like them before and pick up a few to take home with them, where Dan tries to use the contents of his toolbox to open up the rocks and see what's inside. Ironically however, it is only when one of the rocks falls from the kitchen table that it cracks open on the floor. Dan and Ev are both quick to notice the large diamond that was inside the rock, but neither one of them notices the spider that has escaped the confines of the hollow rock and so their home soon ends up having an awful lot of rocks in it. It doesn't take long before Ev begins to notice that they seem to have a not-so-little spider problem in the house these days, and she sits nursing a fly squatter that looks pitifully inadequate for the task at hand.
The Giant Spider Invasion is rather a corny film, but I must admit that I found it quite entertaining, though not at all frightening. When the 50ft spider puts in an appearance complete with its ping-pong ball eyes, I couldn't help but smile -- we are not talking modern special effects here folks, we are talking a Volkswagen Beetle with legs. As to the smaller spiders, they look more like tarantulas than invaders from outer space. Hey wait a minute, they are tarantulas! The stripy ones are Mexican red knees and the other ones are Chilean Rose tarantulas, both of which are recommended starter spiders for those who fancy keeping tarantulas as pets. I keep tarantulas myself and so not only was it hard for me to feel afraid when watching the film, but I found it very hard to suspend disbelief when the giant spider ate one of the local citizens by sucking him into its mouth. Spiders don't eat like that, even when they are ninety percent German automotive engineering.
So, The Giant Spider Invasion is not exactly a believable film, but there are worse ways to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon, and it is probably worth watching the film just for the unbelievably cheerful sheriff and the fire and brimstone preacher who is so cliched that he is a monument to the word, and the film even allows him his final say as the final credits roll.
CAST Steve
Brodie
... Dr. J.R. Vance Robert
Easton
... Dan Kester
Run time: 80 minutes |
