Director:
Fritz BöttgerGuión:
Fritz BöttgerCámara:
Georg KrauseMúsica:
Willy MattesReparto:
Harald Maresch, Helga Franck, Alexander D'Arcy, Helga Neuner, Barbara Valentin, Rainer Brandt, Dorothee ParkerSinopsis(1)
When a planeload of models crash-lands on a tropical island, they are forced by the heat and humidity to peel off most of their hot, sticky clothing. That evening they find a giant spider web with a dead scientist caught in it, but this doesn't stop their talent manager from taking a late-night walk. In great monster movie tradition, it's not long before he is bitten by a spider and begins to change into a hairy crab-like giant spider. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (1)
Poster tagline: HAIR RISING! ONE BITE FROM A GIANT SPIDER TURNED HIM INTO THE WORLD'S MOST HIDEOUS MONSTER, WITH AN EVIL LUST TO KILL!!! A brilliantly bad film? Well, this story about a shipwrecked girl's dance club that survives on a deserted island after a plane crash and are threatened by the director of the club, mutated into a monster after a spider bite, is just bad, I wouldn’t go as far as to call it brilliant. But there are some “remarkable” moments. It’s worth mentioning the crash of the plane, in which the director used a shot of a downed fighter plane, probably from World War II, which falls perpendicularly into the sea, and there are brief shots of two screaming women somewhere in a dark room. Also remarkable is how they show the monster. You can tell that the close-ups of the face (the monster looks like a werewolf from old Universal horror movies) were shot in one take elsewhere, presumably in a studio, in the dark, with the same bush in the background, whereas when the rest of the body is shown on the island, the actor's back is always turned to the camera so that it's not obvious that he's not wearing the same fancy mask, thus saving money. This bizarre combination of sudden changes of day and night, face and back is like the best of Ed Wood and his ilk. The women here are all thrown indiscriminately into the form of moaning twats, mindlessly submissive to men (no matter which ones) and with a head full of coquetry and the need to walk around only in their underwear; they are, therefore, a disparate, fractious group that leads only to bickering (and one wholesome fight). The men, on the other hand, mainly walk around only in trousers, so that their hairy chests can be properly seen and both of the male and female spectators can have their own. And since the spider and the monster are only second fiddle here due to their few second performances, the main role is played by the chatter of the squabbling women and their two partners about which of the men and women is chic, who is not, who is tearing up the group, who is screwing who, and there’s no time or space for any stupid, life-threatening monster to be discussed. Unfortunately, this is by no means interesting, or even entertainingly silly. I dropped the Boo! rating from my scale a while ago (I only reserve it to ideologically disingenuous or harmful films), but in this case I wasn’t very far from it.
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