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The Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also provided the plot upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based. Though the title suggests a global crisis, the film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by ...
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Bert Ira Gordon (September 24, 1922 – March 8, 2023) was an American filmmaker and visual effects artist. He is best known for screenwriting and producing and/or directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Earth vs. the Spider (1958), Village of the Giants (1965), and Empire of the Ants (1977).
The festival also featured Beginning of the End (1957), set in Ludlow, Illinois, just 30 minutes north of UIUC, where giant grasshoppers cause destruction—though the crew never filmed in Ludlow, adding a fun trivia point. Another highlight was Earth vs. the Spider (1958), in which a giant spider, exposed to DDT, terrorizes a high school ...
The Spider's Web was the first serial to be adapted from a pulp magazine. [2] The original pulp magazine stories were too violent for the motion picture production code, but The Spider's Web "did manage to suggest [their] frantic pace". [3] Some changes were made beyond toning down the violence.
In films Kenney typically plays the good girl who falls in with the wrong crowd or finds herself in situations beyond her control. Standing five feet, two inches tall, she was often described as "tiny” and "petite.” [19] [20] Her height and youthful appearance helped make her convincing in teenage roles such as Barbara Bonney in Teenage Doll and Carol Flynn in Earth vs. the Spider.
Fraser eventually became typecast in low budget 1950s sci-fi films. She played a wife possessed by aliens in the Roger Corman film It Conquered the World (1956), the sister of the titular monster in War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and a mother protecting her baby in Earth vs. the Spider (1958).
Earth vs. the Spider: 1958 United States giant spider [98] Ebirah: Horror of the Deep: 1966 Japan Godzilla, Ebirah [8] [99]: Chapter 14 The Empire Strikes Back: 1980 United States Exogorth (giant slug) [100] [101] Eight Legged Freaks: 2002 United States, Germany, Australia giant spiders [21] [102] Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure: 1984 ...