For a film with no CGI and William Shatner, there’s no other way the movie could end. Betty Johnson: This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Leave a comment. A few days later, Diane Ashley, an arachnologist, arrives looking for Hansen, Ashley tells Hansen that the calf was killed by a massive dose of spider venom, which Hansen greets with skepticism and disbelief, undaunted, Ashley tells him that the problem is serious and that she wishes to examine the animal's carcass and the area where it became sick, Hansen escorts Ashley to Colby's farm; and moments after they arrive, Colby's wife, Birch, discovers their dog is also mysteriously dead, Ashley performs a quick chemical test on the dog's carcass and concludes that like the calf, it died from a massive injection of spider venom, Hansen is incredulous, until Colby states that he recently found a massive "spider hill" on a back section of his farmland, he takes Hansen and Ashley to the hill, which is covered with tarantulas, Ashley theorizes that the tarantulas are converging together due to the heavy use of pesticides, which are eradicating their natural food supply. You love them or you hate them. Thanks, Joan. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Shatner plays a veterinarian with the awesome name of Rack Hansen. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The ending, which involves an egregious matte painting, is rightfully infamous, but even that works within the context of things. Overall, I think I may have had a better reaction to watching this back when I was 6 or 7. It stars William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Lieux Dressler and Altovise Davis. Ridiculously entertaining while remaining fairly grounded in reality, Kingdom of the Spiders is a must-see. And I'm sure not everyone will like the ending.

Change ). The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught. ( Log Out /  Best Horror Movies to Watch on Shudder Right Now, 10 July 2020 Sure, Kingdom Of The Spiders is cheesy, melodramatic and fun for all the wrong reasons, but I’ve also seen way worse than this. The spiders eventually begin their assault on the local residents, killing Birch and Hansen's sister-in-law, Terri. Tarantulas are creepy. Blurring Lines Between Nightmares & Reality, The works of horror author Thomas S. Flowers, The Official Website of Horror Writer Hunter Shea, Displacement activity is still activity: Writing about writing, Your source for retro horror movie and book reviews. The woman, Diane Ashley (Tiffany Boling), is an arachnologist…, It’s never explained how the pesticides give the tarantulas human emotions, like anger or the desire for crawling revenge, but soon, the little bastards are on the rampage, tearing through a small town in Arizona. When Mr. X is not writing creepy mind-benders, he’s the host and/or contributor to several podcasts and review sites, including but not limited to, Popshifter, Kiss the Goat, and the Cinema Beef Podcast. The guy who owned the calf (Woody Strode) says something to the effect of, “Oh, that explains the giant fucking spider hill behind my house with thousands of tarantulas crawling around it.”.