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The Horrors of Spider Island (aka: It's Hot In Paradise) (aka: A Corpse Hangs In the Web)

Posted by: The Great Frog
Date Submitted: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 at 17:16:51
Date Posted: Saturday, September 11, 1999 at 05:45:49

This movie seems to have been made almost exclusively for individuals whose gender will keep them from giving birth (in other words, men). I came in a bit late, but here's the gist of it.

A group of women, as well as one man, are in a plane crash, landing on a small island somewhere. The women go about dressing scantily and acting helpless as movie women tend to when marooned on islands. The man, meanwhile, wanders off to be bitten by a giant mutant spider, as men tend to when marooned on islands. The man turns into some sort of spider human who looks, acts, and moves absolutely nothing like a spider. He offs a few of the women, who are later rescued by a pair of men who for some reason have come to this island. The movie, at this point, turns from monster flick to just pathetic, as the men take to salivating over anything with four limbs and hair, and the women reciprocate warmly.

At this point, the script writers seemed to remember the werespider they had written into the plot and threw in a "climactic scene" as though they were frantic to fulfill some quota of movie material. The spider man dies. They leave the island. They're on a boat heading back for the mainland. And then...IT ENDS! The movie drops off at a 90 degree angle into the credits. Remember the ending of "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail"? Think like that.

Rating: 2 turkeys.

Scene to watch for: The End (argh!)

Best line: "You sure know how to make a girl feel special."

Things that make you go "Huh?": Mutant werespiders that don't look like spiders?


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