#Earth Vs The Spider movie

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: insect

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.

[weirdlookindog]

Earth vs the Spider (1958)

AKA The Spider, Earth vs. the Giant Spider

[darius-1]

New Goblin pins Elektra to the wall during their fight!

[eddie-the-film-geek]

[moviesandmania]

EARTH VS THE SPIDER Bert I. Gordon - reviews and free online

‘Bullets won’t kill it! Flames can’t hurt it! Nothing can stop it!’ Earth vs the Spider is a 1958 American sci-fi horror film in which teenagers and their science teacher battle a giant mutant spider. Also known as simply The Spider Produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also wrote the story, upon which the screenplay written by George Worthing Yates (Tormented; Frankenstein 1970) and…

[adamwatchesmovies]

Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

The only times Earth vs. the Spider isn’t predictable is when it forgets about basic storytelling rules and logic. Made on the cheap, featuring lousy special effects, with a misleading title and characters so unfazed by what’s going on you'll wonder if they're on drugs, it manages to become “so bad it’s good” thanks to its brisk running time.

When her father disappears one night, Carol (June Kenney) investigates with her boyfriend, Mike (Eugene Persson). Near his wrecked truck, they find a cavern and inside, a gigantic tarantula. With the help of science teacher Mr. Kingman (Ed Kemmer) and the initially incredulous authorities, the small bands together to defeat this threat.

The film’s title implies the spider is a threat to all mankind but really, it’s only after the small town. In fact, when the townspeople call for help, their efforts fail and they're left to deal with the man-eating arachnid on their own. It’s no surprise when we learn that their message didn’t reach the military because the messenger was eaten - probably the best bit of writing in this entire film.

What makes Earth vs. the Spider funny is how nonchalant everyone is. When searching for Mr. Flynn, Carol and Mike discover two human skeletons in the tarantula’s cave. Do they scream? Do they even seem surprised? Hardly. They don’t even bring these bones to the attention of the Sheriff when trying to prove there's danger in the cave. Later on, the spider is killed (or is it?) and brought to the high school for study. Its corpse is lying belly-up in the gym but the local cool cats need a spot to practice their instruments. Is the deceased eight-legged freak going to stop them from having a good time? No. In fact, their practice turns into a full-on school dance until their music wakes the thing up and it starts tearing the building apart! Finally, with the creature’s rampage resumed, you’d think Carol and Mike would you know, run for the hills, seek shelter, etc. Instead, they wander back into the cave so the lady can get the necklace she misplaced. I know it was the last thing her father gave her, but wouldn’t you rather live?!

Between the 40-year-olds pretending to be teenagers (Troy Patterson as Joe has to be the worst offender) and the hairy sticks being waved in front of the camera (they’re supposed to be spider legs), you’ll notice some of the most unhelpful authorities ever featured in a giant monster movie. It’s like the Sheriff doesn’t care that everyone he knows could soon be spun into silky cocoons. He basically leaves it up to Mr. Kingman - a high school teacher - to get this disaster resolved and only begrudgingly helps out. The teacher’s solution? If you don’t see it coming, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s foreshadowed as subtly as a 30-foot case of arachnophobia skittering down Main Avenue.

Everything wrong with Earth vs. the Spider makes it very easy to make fun of and before you run out of spider puns, the movie’s over. It offers unintentional silliness all the way to the end, which is one of the most inconclusive final moments I’ve seen in a while. In any other movie, it would be a setup for a sequel. Here? It’s just proof someone wasn’t paying attention. I won’t say it’s a “have a good time at its expense classic” but if you put in the effort, you can enjoy yourself plenty. (July 27, 2022)

[cinemaquiles]

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[visplay]

Chris: Earth vs the Spider is basically Cloverfield made 50 years previously, large monster attacks a US city, not done badly, noteworthy monster film, Watch: When Free.

Richie: I was surprised that I was entertained by this one, the scene with the bat was hysterical, Watch: When Free.

[ariyougood]

My favourite thing EVER is the little sub fandom that’s currently all of my tiktok fyp of Peter Parker in Gotham.

Like- I could go on for hours about how amazing theses fics are, but even on a sentimental level it’s so fucking cool to see.

Spider-Man (and the MCU in general) was literally my entire childhood. Ultimate Spider-Man? Avengers Assemble? Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? Little six year old me was drawing fanart before I even knew what fanart WAS. Andrew Garfield? #1 Celebrity crush growing up. The Marvel Cinematic Universe? I have my walls covered in posters, my laptop wallpaper is that one Cap vs Thanos’ army scene from endgame and I have an infinity gauntlet lamp on my bedside table.

Recently though, like October 2022, I’ve been obsessed with the batfam and DC in general. Learning as much as I can about the comics, watching all the CW tv shows (including titans) and all the movies. Hell- I’ve been watching shows like Young Justice (which was another childhood show), Teen Titans (03) + the tie-in comics for both, the Justice League animated series, and so many other that I’m blanking on.

It’s so fucking cool to see people who love Spider-Man and Marvel find these fics and start asking how to get into DC and vice versa. Like- humans are so fucking cute man idk T°T

[weirdlookindog]

Earth vs the Spider (1958) VHS cover

AKA The Spider, Earth vs. the Giant Spider

[ghostflowerhotpotch]

Earth-65 Is NOT in the 90s

I had seen this come up both in tumblr and in twitter, in twitter actually getting decent numbers for some reason; and while I don't think there is a lot of people making that mistake (YET) I setting the record straight.

There are smartphones in all of these pictures, Gwen has one since the first movie.

I had seen some people go with "well is an alternate universe so maybe-" and by that logic you can say this is 2099 and they are behind.

I think this just annoys me because I know exactly where the people are getting these ideas, and it amounts to people 1) Not reading 2) The old telephone game of parroting stuff without checking.

This is from the Across the Spider-verse Artbook. As you can see, it hints at being inspired by the 90s, but that vs being actually the 90s is a big difference.

And again, the LOOK in the comics, the comics are also not set in the 90s; and even if they were, the Spider-Gwen comics canon are SO laughably different the idea of that being a defence is hysterical.

[darius-1]

[mochminnie]

Stitch, BayMax, Emi I would love all 3 there to be fanart!!!! There will be many Disney references in my Ken Sato Story. ‘Outgrown’

Ken & Hana would be so David & Nani coded. 🥺🫶🏽🤭🖤✨

I’ll may or may not make an au with Baymax and a separate one with Stitch. And one with all 3 characters🥺🖤✨

I feel love these characters Emi would love them so so much!!! I need fan art of Stitch & Emi!!!

Maybe a bigger version of stitch meeting Emi or her as pocket sized Emi, Ken & Reader meeting Lilo, the whole Ohana. In the fic.

Emi would jump up and down excitedly to see Stitch and do the Kaiju Godzilla dance with her. Especially on how many times Stitch would imitate the huge spider ("Earth vs. the Spider" (1958) ) kaiju in the first Lilo & Stitch movie. And the family watching "Them!" (1954)

Baymax & Emi!!! Fanart!!! I feel like she would deflate him😭😭😭🫶🏽 bless her.

[moviesandmania]

EARTH VS THE SPIDER (1958) Reviews of Bert I. Gordon monster movie

‘Bullets won’t kill it! Flames can’t hurt it! Nothing can stop it!’ Earth vs the Spider is a 1958 American sci-fi horror film in which teenagers and their science teacher battle a giant mutant spider. Produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also wrote the story, upon which the screenplay written by George Worthing Yates (Tormented; Frankenstein 1970) and László Görög (The Land Unknown; The…