Earth vs. the Spider

A man driving along a lonely back road at night is suddenly startled by what he sees, and is promptly killed by something that crashes through his windshield. The next day, in the nearby town of River Falls, teenagers Carol Flynn (June Kenney) and Mike Simpson (Gene Persson) decide to go looking for ...more

Earth vs. the Spider is the most consistently entertaining, if not the best of Bert I. Gordon's various size-oriented fantasy-sci-fi films. Among his best-known movies, The Amazing Colossal Man has a more intelligent script and much better developed characters and Attack of the Puppet People is a more serious and better devised and designed movie (and both are referred to obliquely in this film), but Earth vs. the Spider is more fun than either of them. For starters, it has more comic relief ...more