Kingdom of the Spiders

Just before his accident, Walter Colby is shown driving his truck.

Briefly, a crew member's hand comes into view at the bottom of the screen.

When Rack Hansen and Diane Ashley arrive at Terry's farm, they get out of Rack's truck and close the doors.

A moment later when they rush back with Rack's niece, Linda, the truck doors are open.

At Colby's accident site, the deputy tells the sheriff that an eyewitness was a quarter of a mile behind Colby's truck and saw the accident.

However, during earlier wide shots of Colby driving, there was nobody as far as the eye could see on the straight highway.

The stunt driver who hits Mayor Conner misjudged his speed and hit the brakes just as he made contact.

Instead of the car taking out the mayor and then careening into the water tower, you can see it stop briefly and then accelerate again to get enough speed to take out the water tower.

The sheriff tells Shatner at Colby's accident scene that he wants to find a way down to the truck to check on the body without breaking his neck.

Yet, the tow truck cable is already wrapped around the vehicle's axle.

During the assault on the town, a white Mustang careens into a parked car.

During the wide-angle shot, only the driver is visible.

But, in the close-up after the crash, a female passenger is seen sitting upright in the passenger side just before she crawls out of the wrecked vehicle.

- PLOTShortly after the Baron's crash, the sheriff has his deputy call Birch Colby at her farm.

Meanwhile, Rack and Diane race out to Terry's to bring her and Linda into town.

However, the mayor had previously ordered the sheriff to move all the outlying residents into town so that the Baron could spray the Malathion.

This is especially true of Colby's where the main targets of the spray (20-30 spider hills) are located.

William Shatner("Star Trek") stars as a veterinarian in a desert community who, while investigating a series of mysterious animal deaths, and after he is helped by another expert(Tiffany Bolling) discovers to their horror that hordes of tarantulas are massing in the desert, and are about to strike back at humans, just in time for the annual town festival...Story is old hat by now, but is expertly directed by John "Bud" Cardos, well-written and acted, with an effective music score(with cues taken from "The Twilight Zone") and a memorable ending that wraps things up, though leaves room for a possible sequel which hasn't happened yet...

Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen (William Shatner) discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel.

William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner and hordes of killer spiders rampaging through rural Arizona in the 1970s....what a concept!

This movie scared the snot outta me as a kid....and still does.

Since tarantulas are harmless to humans, does this movie qualify as animal cruelty? In many scenes, you see people stomping on them and crushing them and cars driving over them.

The movie is as boring as the giant tarantula painting and text layout done for the poster are gorgeous/awesome, if the movie were that well done it might have been something impressive. aside from that, there is an excellently silly scream given by a pilot who is attacked mid flight and then a women shooting her own fingers off instead of simply flinging away a tarantula that has crawled onto her hand.

I admit that spiders scare the bejeezus out of me and that I'd probably feel a whole lot happier if every last one of them were removed from existence however, as so many ecological horrors of the '70s have clearly illustrated, meddling with the balance of nature isn't wise, and doing so can only make matters a whole lot worse. For example, in Kingdom of the Spiders, the use of chemicals such as DDT have resulted in an army of resilient, deadly and very hungry tarantulas, five times as venomous as normal and a whole lot more aggressive.

Oh yes, I went there. Birdemic, the "so bad it's just bad, but fun to watch how bad it is" flick that tries to push some kind of 'human vs.

How could they not have tried:Flamethrowers? Brush cutters/clearing saws Lawnmowers?