Actors: Jackie Coogan, Robert Knapp, Mary
Hill, Harmon Stevens, Jeanette "Tandra" Quinn, Nico Lek, George Barrows, Samuel Wu
Rating: 1 out of 10, During this trek
through bade cinema I’m come to have a grudging respect that some of these were
ever made. I know it was a different Hollywood back then but a movie about a
mad doctor in the middle of the Mexican desert creating beautiful women out of
tarantulas, c’mon. Someone had to have questioned this but it did get made and I
wandered through it last night as Uncle Fester himself, Jackie Coogan, was
getting his groove on creating the killer women. An interesting take on 1950s feminism
as none of the ladies he created could speak but were inadequately clothed
throughout. It also features possibly the most polite kidnapper in movie history.
MVP: Jackie Coogan as Dr. Aranya, the
one eyed mad scientist (I’m sure there’s a double entendre there somewhere)
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