(spoilers)This movie is so terrible that it actually succeeds, in some dimensions, in being good. Good for a laugh, that is. It's one of the better MST3K's because they have so much material to work with. From the leering, sleazy beefiness of manager Gary, to the eight silly bimbos who wrestle and slap each other; from the stupid corny special effects to the badly dubbed dialogue. All of the men are nasty misogynists except for one of the 'researchers', who is obviously a closet gay man. One of the things I was struck by was how the men knew EVERYTHING, including things that they couldn't have possibly known! How the heck did the greasy Gary know that that hammer was used to mine uranium? And how the heck did prancing researcher boy know that you could only destroy the Gary-Spider with fire?! And the professor in the giant web! That was utterly funny. Tom Servo:" He was caught in the middle of a cheerleading move!" And it DID look like that was exactly what he'd been doing! How else could he have gotten into that weird position on the giant web? And how did he get caught in the first place, if the web was so big and obvious? He must have been as stupid as the dancers, which in this movie would make him an honorary woman. My father was astonished when he saw this movie-it was as close to soft core porn as you could get in the early sixties.
Review of Horrors of Spider Island
