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Fritz BöttgerHorrors of Spider Island (1962)

A plane crash leaves a dance troupe stranded on a deserted island where a mutant spider bite turns the troupe's leader into a monster.
This movie was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 ep. 1011.
You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page.

The plain MPEG-4 version is a 320x240 768 kbps h.264 128 kbps aac encode for iPod. I don't have a video iPod so please tell me what worked, what didn't, and what could be improved.


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: Fritz Böttger
Producer: Gaston Hakim
Production Company: Pacemaker Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Language: English (dubbed)
Keywords: horror; sci-fi; MST3K; dubbed; camp

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: SonOfChaos - - July 9, 2009
Subject: Original Cut?
According to the interwebs, this film was a recut of It's Hot In Paradise, they just removed all the nudity (save the barely visible skinny dipping) so they could unleash the movie on the poor poor masses.

Not a good flick, would like to see the original though.

Reviewer: Aitchondo - - February 28, 2009
Subject: I wonder if a 16 year old...
...would give it 5 stars as a previous reviewer stated. I tried it on a grandson. His review- "The opening scene was really neat with the old cars and at about thirty minutes in, the spider was neat in its badness. The movie really sucked and you owe me big time, Grandpa, for even asking me to watch it.
1 star cause they don't have a half star" I'll trust his judgment and skip this one.

Reviewer: katpooh9 - - February 28, 2009
Subject: Yuck!
The plot barely existed. The spider barely existed. I guess it was used as some kind of excuse to get a bunch of catty, almost nude women together on an island so they could fight each other and enjoy guys leering at them. All throughout the movie the ears are tortured by stupid sexy woman music. I was wishing I could fast-forward through most of it. In other words, a sixteen-year old boy would give it five stars.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - July 4, 2007
Subject: Bad monster movie
A female dance troupe becomes stranded on a lonely island where giant, deadly, and mutagenic spiders roam.

This cheaply made, poorly acted, and poorly directed movie was clearly meant to appeal to teens. Filled with scantily clad, partially nude or nude young women often in titillating situations, a teenage mentality pervades. The acting, dialog, and editing gave me some good laughs.

I downloaded the mpeg1 file. The audio is out of sync through most of the movie.