IIRC the biggest spider was a Volkswagen Beetle with a spider "costume" draped over it. The headlights were the spider's large yes, which is why they glow so bright. Inside the small car, a bunch of people controlled the legs. The whole contraption was burned for the final scene, but remains of the burnt-out chassis can still be found in the area where it was filmed.
Robert Easton, who plays creepy Dan, and also wrote the script, was a highly respected actor with a 60-year career. He was also the world's greatest authority on regional accents in American English, and for that matter expert on all the world's English accents. His career as a voice coach was far more lucrative than his acting career.
I wondered if he tried to put on a wisconsin accent for this movie because the movie was filmed in Merril wisconsin aka my parent's favorite summer spot
The farmer has to be my favorite character. Wearing a girdle around the house, having prayer meetings with the Swedish bar tender, and finding space diamonds with a southern accent.
There's so much reactionary pearl clutching on RU-vid these days (it's a Star Wars tv show, it doesn't need 70 videos of someone bitching) that I now crave a Mark upload. Genuinely a highlight of my day when it happens.
@@DroosterH Um at 4min 13sec into episode 3 You can see Vaders chest panel has lights when it shouldn’t. You’re saying that isn’t important to you?! It ruined my whole week
Robert Easton was also a dialect coach. He helped Ben Kingsley play "Ghandi" and Forest Whitaker play Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland". Yet look at him in this! I think it's amazing.
He's the highlight of the film. Most of the jokes in the MST3K print are about his character. His role here is considerably larger than the Touch of Satan one.
@@tskmaster3837 having lived through the 70s, I would like to see the movie made back then with a convincing giant spider. I don’t think one existed until Shelob from Return of the King, in 2003.
@@Barada73 To put this "spider' on the same level as Tarantula, Them or the Black Scorpion... brought to life by way of process shots, puppets and stop motion respectively.... or even BIG's Earth Versus the Spider.... yikes.... is an insult to the concept of special effects. My own personal pick for "Best Giant Spider" will always go to The Incredible Shrinking Man. It's a man sized spider because it's a spider sized man so what they did was sell the background using special sets... oh right, that's what they did in Lord of the Rings. The spider was CGI but the technique to sell it is older than film itself.
@@tskmaster3837 I am fascinated by your comment that comparing these special effects with the other special effects you mentioned was insulting to the concept of special effects. why? I grew up in the 70's and I wasn't impressed by any of the films you mentioned or their special effects. I am not an expert and don't care to argue, so I am really just interested in your own opinion as to why the effects you mentioned should be seen in - what - another category of special effects altogether? If it is unconvincing, what difference does it make how unconvincing it is?
This is actually a pretty good movie, or at least it's no Monster a-Go-Go. It does move along, and the characters are interesting in a kinda sleazy and/or boozy sort of way. And it's got some ambition. Car crashes, actual practical giant spider props.... No, they're not convincing, but it beats "Suddenly, there was no monster."
It took two directors to make "Monster a-Go-Go" and that awful ending was Herschell Gordon Lewis throwing up his arms and saying "The movie is over an hour long and I don't give a crap." Bill Rebane would have set the monster on fire or something.
"So, now, it's the next morning. You can tell, because Ev has cracked open her 'breakfast' beer..." I don't know exactly why, but that floored me. It's just the dry, sardonic, matter-of-fact way he delivers that line...and, well...every line, actually.
Your entire driving while distracted and hitting a giant upside down spider was pure gold. If I had a dollar for every time that has happened to me....I may have two dollars, but I can't remember. Trauma, you understand.
I remember seeing this movie at the theater. Back then we would go see a matinee on Sunday afternoon at least twice a month. The theater would only have two screens and we would pick by looking at the movie posters outside the theater. I never heard of Star Wars when I went to go see it. We almost saw Orca instead.
I'm actually very impressed they made a model of a giant spider, rather than just switching to zoomed in footage of a real spider (like Night of the Lepus did with rabbits).
I always expect it to be a giant invasion of spiders rather than an invasion of giant spiders. Also I admire your restraint in not doing a Gilligan’s Island joke the moment Alan Hale, Jr. shows up!
Derek's Direct has made another satisfied customer. I was supposed to donate a kidney to someone in need. I realized My alcohol issues mirror the lady in the spider movie so I knew I needed both of them. Him dressing up as a nurse and blowing up the west wing of the hospital created the distraction I needed to get out of there. Thanks Derek
@@seanryan3020 I tried to get him to dress up in leather with a mask that looked like a bat but they only had green dye and white face paint on clearance so we went with that.
The amount of extras they had on set during the town attack scenes is actually pretty impressive for such a low budget b-movie. It looks like they employed a literal small town's worth of people to run around.
Arachnophobia is still the scariest spider movie of all time and it was made over 30 years ago. Most of the jump scares still hold up and the fact that they used real spiders for most of the film still makes my skin crawl a little bit. This travesty on the other hand, is just comedy. That huge spider puppet is used to houses all over the US for Halloween decorations now.
I vividly remember watching Arachnophobia as a kid and even as an adult I still think it's incredibly creepy and effective. The stuff like the guy getting but in the tent or the guy finding the dead spider in the box of snacks have always stuck in my head lol
Every time I see those old cats first run up that hill, encounter the spider, then immediately fall and ROLL back down the hill, I damn near pee myself laughing. And I don't care what anybody says, those long shots of the spider moving across the land from afar are CREEPY. Love this movie. Thanks for your hilarious commentary.
Keep it up Man! Your channel is still underrated. I’m a follower for years now and your videos never disappoint. The Derek skit was hilarious. Greetings from Germany
I stop IMMEDIATELY what I'm doing the moment I see the notification for this... The Giant Spider Invasion, literally in my Top 5 movies of ALL-TIME, ever made!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this movie, soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Mark, your comedic dry humor approach to movie reviews is straight genius and refreshingly new all at the same time. Thank you for sharing your unique talents with us. We are not worthy!
Oh GD I have no smokes and my car won't start dead battery been waiting 7 hours for friend to come jump me and they bring smokes. I'm tweeking hard and Mark just came through with a good fix. Thanks Broskie
Yknow I was sad when Mark didn't put himself in the movie this time...... And then he totally redeemed himself with the commercial at the end. I would, no lie, use his distraction service at least once just to witness the majesty
I saw this in the drive in. It was the second movie of a double feature and being 8 I was supposed to be asleep in the back seat, but yeah, right. The part where Alan Hale died I was like "Oh no, The skipper!" and my mom and dad start laughing.
Twist ending would be a self made clone that walks up just as a crowd is about to pulverise him, points down the street and says, "he's over there!!" And they all run away.
I remember seeing this in the drive-thru when it first came out. Mark's video on this could have easily been twice the length and would have been just as funny and interesting. When you consider the cast alone, he could have gotten a lot more mileage out of it. Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper from Gilligan's Isle), Leslie Parrish (starred in many movies and TV shows, including Star Trek TOS), Barbara Hale (from Perry Mason), Robert Easton (also many movies and TV shows), a lot of actors who had a successful career at one point and probably just accepted their roles in this movie for financial reasons.
Oh, okaaay, THATS where I've seen that drunkard. She was in the Star Trek episode Who Mourns For Adonis. Costume designer William Theiss created a gown for her that had a length of fabric that draped over her breasts and over her shoulder to form a cape. She wore no support and her bare back was visible. The only thing that held the front in place was the weight of the cape. Shatner and rest of the men in the cast were constantly worried the thing would slide off. The actress Leslie Parrish got kick out of them being nervous but said it was an extremely comfortable and secure costume.
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) was quoted as saying that during the filming of the episode : "Who Mourns For Adonais ?", he -- and other members of the cast & crew -- were praying that Leslie Parrish might have a "wardrobe malfunction" while wearing that particular costume. 🤭😌😏😍
I had a classmate that wrecked her car due to a bee . Instead of being calm and pulling over she crashed into a ditch resulting in a few broken bones and whiplash.
My brother drove into a brick wall when a wasp flew in his side window. He said, "I hate wasps", which is funny because at 40mph I would hate brick walls more.
Man I watched this as a kid and all I was able to remember was spiders in rocks and the line "Little pink ones". Thank you for clearing up what the hell it was, been bugging me for over thirty years!
Mark, you and me are comedy doppelgängers. Every time I watch one of your videos I know exactly where you’re going but everything which is so awesome Keep up the great word your show is hilarious.
5:14 This whole driving part is my favorite....I have watched it a lot of times😂....i keep coming back to this video for this alone. WHY IS THIS GUY SOOOO UNDERRATED.😩
I mean, considering its from 1975 and they used an actual huge spider puppet instead of just an overlay makes it look not that bad imo. Glad the creepy dude got eaten first though.
Derrick wiped-out half of my town with a 12 megatons hydrogen bomb to save me from a boring family dinner. Thank you, Derrick! The "Red telephones are hot" scene looks like something you can expect in a spoof movie like The Naked Gun.
"While attempting to film a scene where the spider explodes, the effects team covered the prop with gunpowder and had a crew member attempt to ignite it with matches. Despite using the entire matchbox, the spider did not explode and Rebane decided to stop filming. Immediately after they stopped, the spider exploded, causing two crew members to get their hair singed and be taken to the hospital to be treated for severe burns." I can't even ... 🤦♀😂
This was on TV years ago when one of my buds was over. We laughed loudly throughout it, and wasn't surprised that it was filmed in our home state of Wisconsin.
MARK!!!!this is my new favorite channel...I can't believe u don't got one shitty video...no misses...and by golly you post regularly!!! Thank u for making RU-vid cool!
I don't know about the rest of you but I would pay GOOD money to have Derrick's Discount Distractions on speed dial - sounds like a life saver, can't believe no one has thought about such a service before, lol!
Well, we have to admit that Bill Rebane was just ahead of the curve... I mean, locking a scripwriter in starving isolation to force him to write is what we call today "standart procedure"...
Thanks Mark, I've never even heard of this one. I love the giant spiders! The filmmakers may have had a tiny budget, but they really put it all up on the screen. Re the poster...have you seen the hand-painted movie posters made by artists in Africa? They're AMAZING. If you do an image search for "African movie poster" you'll find a ton of them - it's a whole art genre. Apparently the artists almost never get to see the movie in advance, so they're working from a few photos or even just a title, plus their own imagination, so you wind up with a cross between an old-fashioned movie poster and a fever dream.
Is it me or did Mark get a bit of a tan? Keep up the great work and that lovely skin tone! Your healthy skin tone convinces me that you are NOT a movie zombie. We love you man!
The real miracle is the fact that this film has some good actors. Alan Hale, Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, all good actors paid to do this.
CLASSIC! That movie was kind of big deal when it came out. Lots of ads for it. I talked my dad into taking me to see it at the drive in. I was 7...Got a hot dog and a hamburger at the snack shack that night! Good Times!
Some people say the sheriff got his job after some kind of trouble with his previous job. Something with a ship that gave short tours, like 3 hour tours.
@@TheRogueWolf It was a fateful trip. All starting from a tropic port aboard a tiny ship. There was a whole set of historical records covering it. Similar to the historical records of the crew of the NSEA-Protector.
I like this concept of a disruptive event opening up a doomed dimension with horrible spiders. I think I'd try to make a movie like this with the style of Gremlins 1, only with nightmarish spiders of different kinds. They'd be really die hard, but still getting blasted by townsfolks having bigger survival instincts than them. Would be cool, you'd get: house sized spider, acid spewing spider, tree flying spider, spider shooting people with hair pins as sharps as needles, subterranean digging spider laying traps...
I once had a great distraction which rescued me from a very very boring meeting. 10 mins into the meeting and the fire alarm went off (drill) and saved my day.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan RU-vid has like 90% of the episodes, including the KTMA episodes. I even put together a nice playlist of them. Besides that, Tubi has a nice collection of them, and then there is The Gizmoplex that let's you watch all the old episodes for free, it's run by Joe Robinson, so it is 100% legit.
Surprisingly, Robert Easton, the guy with the stained long johns didn't look half bad in his younger years, and actually had a very prolific career in acting throughout his life.
Another amazing roast. The mst3k guys riffed this in episode 810. Excellent work on the infomercial! Amazon pay Mark, at least via a referral link for the DVDs. 😉 👌