Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
What happens plane crashes leaving a handful of beautiful “dancers” stranded on a island, who bath and swim in skimpy bathing suits and are as dumb as rocks, have to deal with radioactive spiders? And what happens if their manager is bitten by one of these spiders and turns into a monster? That is the idea of the plot of The Horror of Spider Island.
This is a German, low budget “horror” film that spends more time trying to be risqué without actually trying to be frightening. In other words, the Horror of Spider Island in just an excuse to show a bunch of women with a little clothes as the late 50’s censors would allow. The original cut of this film was almost 90 minutes but all the nudity was cut for the American release. American censorship was a little tight in the late 1950s. Don’t worry ladies, there is a little eye candy for you as well.
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The original name of this film in Germany was Ein Toter hing im Netz, which literally translates to A Corpse Hangs in the Web. And there is a corpse that hangs in a web. The troupe comes across it when they first get to the island. It’s a huge web, but I don’t think it ever occurred to anyone that it might have been made by giant spiders. This is ever apparent when the manager decides to take a walk in the jungle at night with a thunderstorm approaching.
This film is pure Cheese. The giant spiders are as worth the price of admission. They could have been built by a grade school for a Halloween party. The acting is bad and the over dubbing doesn’t help. I wonder if the burlesque, stripping music music during the semi-nudity scenes were from the original cut. I doubt it. This film was released under the tiles, Body in the Web, Girls of Spider Island and It’s Hot in Paradise. And for the lady are a few shirtless guys who do their best to show off there chests.
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