Comments on: Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

By: Garit

Garit — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:30:05 +0000

Am I the only one who loved this movie, of all the goofy and mindblowingly odd films from the black and white era of b-movies, this along with the killer shrews rank among my favorites, To me it gives off a great feeling of good old campy atmosphere, I simply love this movie

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:11:16 +0000

…”To nobody’s great surprise, Gary ends up bitten by a spider. Not just any spider, but a spider with buck-teeth, claws, and sinister looking eyebrows. If anybody can remotely identify the genus of this arachnid, I’d really like to know. ”

Perhaps the uranim that the now dead professor found was responsible for the buck toothed killer arachnid? Why he didn’t get Spider-man like powers is a mystery.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:14:30 +0000

Yeah, that movie is pretty out-of-this-world, and we are the better for it

There were some hotties in it, but I suspect that their 15-minutes of, er, “fame”, ended with the release of this whopper.

Strange, strange movie.

By: Steve McRuiz

Steve McRuiz — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:47 +0000

I just got done watching that film in in MST3K version, and started Googling about it after I picked my lower jaw off the floor from the unbelief that a film like this was actually made, and found your site. Loved your review.

Apparently Barbara Valentin lived with Freddie Mercury (from the band Queen) until the time he died?? I thought Freddie was…well….you know….nevermind. And you can now find Barbara here: http://www.oliverbarchewitz.de/ALLE%20BILDER/Ostfriedhof%2011.jpg

Also, another one of the hotties in that, err…, “film”, Helga Franck (“Georgia”), died a mere 4 years after this crapper was filmed, in an apparent drunken accident at her place: http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/93/Helga+Franck/index.html

Wish I knew more about “Linda” in that movie (Elfie Wagner), but there’s little to be shared on her. Pity, but I think that may have been the only film she was in, and with such a rockin’ body you’d think she’s be in many more stupid classics.

Anyway, I haven’t had this much fun watching a Mystery Science Theatre episode since the equally surreal “Manos: The Hands Of Fate”. Thanks for the review.