Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Viewers that can get past the slow exposition and occasionally corny acting will find a lot of fun in this film, even if it does feel made for TV. The last half hour is filled with creepy crawly spider action as the spider hordes overrun the town. The film sells its believability by using what looks like 100% real spiders, or convincing fakes. The plot is basically eight-legged Jaws, where a town must kill off a migration of killer spiders before they ruin the county fair. With William Shatner in the lead, you would expect it to be extremely corny, but outside of a few scenes with girlish skipping and shrieking around the spiders, the acting is pretty good. Overall, this is an above average animal flick worth a view!

Rating: 7/10.