{"id":33097,"date":"2021-06-21T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=33097"},"modified":"2021-05-07T07:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:06:46","slug":"kingdom-of-the-spiders-1977-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=33097","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/94acb5befeb34cab4add07f9a7e9bf3c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"894\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33074\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/94acb5befeb34cab4add07f9a7e9bf3c.jpeg 564w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/94acb5befeb34cab4add07f9a7e9bf3c-189x300.jpeg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><br \/>\nSpiders are very much one of the &#8216;horror animals&#8217; and Kingdom of the Spiders is clearly one of the best films to be based around them! Many people seem to have a phobia of spiders &#8211; personally, I love them; but I can certainly see why a lot of people find them creepy. This film makes best use of that fact, as while the spiders aren&#8217;t monstrously over-sized, there is a lot of them &#8211; and it soon becomes clear how being overrun by spiders could lead to a very frightening situation! One of the things I liked best about this movie was the fact that it uses actual tarantulas! Many films featuring spiders use crappy looking fake ones, or in the case of more modern films &#8211; CGI, and it never works very well. The story is simple as you would expect, and focuses on a small country town. Cattle are dying mysteriously, and when a good looking female entomologist turns up; she quickly deduces that spiders are the problem. They&#8217;re migrating in huge numbers after the loss of their food source, and this making them aggressive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The film benefits from a nice country atmosphere, and to go along with this; we get a nice cheesy country soundtrack! William Shatner is the main star, and he delivers a nice performance which fits in with the tone of the movie. My main gripe with the film is the fact that not a great deal happens for the first hour. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; this film is never actually boring, but it does feel like the spiders aren&#8217;t posing all that much of a threat for a lot of the film. Kingdom of the Spiders takes obvious influence from classic creature features such as The Birds, in that it puts its focus on a small group of people amidst nature&#8217;s attack. The characters really aren&#8217;t all that interesting; but the spiders are the star of the show, so the characters themselves aren&#8217;t all that important. The death scenes tend to be quite samey, but still they&#8217;re effective; and the film does manage a handful of really suspenseful and somewhat harrowing scenes. The film is obviously pure trash throughout; but its enjoyable pure trash, and I have to see that this is one of the best films of its type that I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiders are very much one of the &#8216;horror animals&#8217; and Kingdom of the Spiders is clearly one of the best films to be based around them! Many people seem to have a phobia of spiders &#8211; personally, I love them; but I can certainly see why a lot of people find them creepy. 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