Friday, September 15, 2017

Horrors of Spider Island

Actors: Alexander D'Arcy, Rainer Brandt, Walter Faber, Helga Franck, Harald Maresch, Helga Neuner, Dorothee Parker, Gerry Sammer,  Eva Schauland, Helma Vandenberg, Barbara Valentin, Elfie Wagner
 Rating: 1 out of 10, The next in my exploration of Bad Cinema and my first ever exposure to what passed as West German soft core porn in 1960. There was no nudity, just a lot of nubile young ladies running around a supposedly tropical island pursued by a “spider-man”. A troop of dancing girls is assembled in New York for a trip to Singapore only to crash in the Pacific and end up on the aforementioned island. The lone male is attacked by a giant spider (because you know uranium was around) and turns into a peeping tom half spider. Most of the movie has the gals either running around the island or dancing. Easy to see how the West Germans survived the cold war with this type response to danger.

MVP: Helga Franck as Georgia, the lone brain cell amongst the troop

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