Robert Easton, who plays creepy Dan, and also wrote the script, was a highly respected actor with a 60-year career. He was also the world's greatest authority on regional accents in American English, and for that matter expert on all the world's English accents. His career as a voice coach was far more lucrative than his acting career.
I wondered if he tried to put on a wisconsin accent for this movie because the movie was filmed in Merril wisconsin aka my parent's favorite summer spot
IIRC the biggest spider was a Volkswagen Beetle with a spider "costume" draped over it. The headlights were the spider's large yes, which is why they glow so bright. Inside the small car, a bunch of people controlled the legs. The whole contraption was burned for the final scene, but remains of the burnt-out chassis can still be found in the area where it was filmed.
The farmer has to be my favorite character. Wearing a girdle around the house, having prayer meetings with the Swedish bar tender, and finding space diamonds with a southern accent.
There's so much reactionary pearl clutching on RUclips these days (it's a Star Wars tv show, it doesn't need 70 videos of someone bitching) that I now crave a Mark upload. Genuinely a highlight of my day when it happens.
@@DroosterH Um at 4min 13sec into episode 3 You can see Vaders chest panel has lights when it shouldn’t. You’re saying that isn’t important to you?! It ruined my whole week
Robert Easton was also a dialect coach. He helped Ben Kingsley play "Ghandi" and Forest Whitaker play Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland". Yet look at him in this! I think it's amazing.
He's the highlight of the film. Most of the jokes in the MST3K print are about his character. His role here is considerably larger than the Touch of Satan one.
This is actually a pretty good movie, or at least it's no Monster a-Go-Go. It does move along, and the characters are interesting in a kinda sleazy and/or boozy sort of way. And it's got some ambition. Car crashes, actual practical giant spider props.... No, they're not convincing, but it beats "Suddenly, there was no monster."
It took two directors to make "Monster a-Go-Go" and that awful ending was Herschell Gordon Lewis throwing up his arms and saying "The movie is over an hour long and I don't give a crap." Bill Rebane would have set the monster on fire or something.
@@tskmaster3837 having lived through the 70s, I would like to see the movie made back then with a convincing giant spider. I don’t think one existed until Shelob from Return of the King, in 2003.
@@Barada73 To put this "spider' on the same level as Tarantula, Them or the Black Scorpion... brought to life by way of process shots, puppets and stop motion respectively.... or even BIG's Earth Versus the Spider.... yikes.... is an insult to the concept of special effects. My own personal pick for "Best Giant Spider" will always go to The Incredible Shrinking Man. It's a man sized spider because it's a spider sized man so what they did was sell the background using special sets... oh right, that's what they did in Lord of the Rings. The spider was CGI but the technique to sell it is older than film itself.
@@tskmaster3837 I am fascinated by your comment that comparing these special effects with the other special effects you mentioned was insulting to the concept of special effects. why? I grew up in the 70's and I wasn't impressed by any of the films you mentioned or their special effects. I am not an expert and don't care to argue, so I am really just interested in your own opinion as to why the effects you mentioned should be seen in - what - another category of special effects altogether? If it is unconvincing, what difference does it make how unconvincing it is?
"So, now, it's the next morning. You can tell, because Ev has cracked open her 'breakfast' beer..." I don't know exactly why, but that floored me. It's just the dry, sardonic, matter-of-fact way he delivers that line...and, well...every line, actually.
I remember seeing this movie at the theater. Back then we would go see a matinee on Sunday afternoon at least twice a month. The theater would only have two screens and we would pick by looking at the movie posters outside the theater. I never heard of Star Wars when I went to go see it. We almost saw Orca instead.
Derek's Direct has made another satisfied customer. I was supposed to donate a kidney to someone in need. I realized My alcohol issues mirror the lady in the spider movie so I knew I needed both of them. Him dressing up as a nurse and blowing up the west wing of the hospital created the distraction I needed to get out of there. Thanks Derek
@@seanryan3020 I tried to get him to dress up in leather with a mask that looked like a bat but they only had green dye and white face paint on clearance so we went with that.
Your entire driving while distracted and hitting a giant upside down spider was pure gold. If I had a dollar for every time that has happened to me....I may have two dollars, but I can't remember. Trauma, you understand.
I always expect it to be a giant invasion of spiders rather than an invasion of giant spiders. Also I admire your restraint in not doing a Gilligan’s Island joke the moment Alan Hale, Jr. shows up!
I'm actually very impressed they made a model of a giant spider, rather than just switching to zoomed in footage of a real spider (like Night of the Lepus did with rabbits).
Keep it up Man! Your channel is still underrated. I’m a follower for years now and your videos never disappoint. The Derek skit was hilarious. Greetings from Germany
I remember seeing this in the drive-thru when it first came out. Mark's video on this could have easily been twice the length and would have been just as funny and interesting. When you consider the cast alone, he could have gotten a lot more mileage out of it. Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper from Gilligan's Isle), Leslie Parrish (starred in many movies and TV shows, including Star Trek TOS), Barbara Hale (from Perry Mason), Robert Easton (also many movies and TV shows), a lot of actors who had a successful career at one point and probably just accepted their roles in this movie for financial reasons.
Every time I see those old cats first run up that hill, encounter the spider, then immediately fall and ROLL back down the hill, I damn near pee myself laughing. And I don't care what anybody says, those long shots of the spider moving across the land from afar are CREEPY. Love this movie. Thanks for your hilarious commentary.
The amount of extras they had on set during the town attack scenes is actually pretty impressive for such a low budget b-movie. It looks like they employed a literal small town's worth of people to run around.
Yknow I was sad when Mark didn't put himself in the movie this time...... And then he totally redeemed himself with the commercial at the end. I would, no lie, use his distraction service at least once just to witness the majesty
I saw this in the drive in. It was the second movie of a double feature and being 8 I was supposed to be asleep in the back seat, but yeah, right. The part where Alan Hale died I was like "Oh no, The skipper!" and my mom and dad start laughing.
Oh GD I have no smokes and my car won't start dead battery been waiting 7 hours for friend to come jump me and they bring smokes. I'm tweeking hard and Mark just came through with a good fix. Thanks Broskie
Oh, okaaay, THATS where I've seen that drunkard. She was in the Star Trek episode Who Mourns For Adonis. Costume designer William Theiss created a gown for her that had a length of fabric that draped over her breasts and over her shoulder to form a cape. She wore no support and her bare back was visible. The only thing that held the front in place was the weight of the cape. Shatner and rest of the men in the cast were constantly worried the thing would slide off. The actress Leslie Parrish got kick out of them being nervous but said it was an extremely comfortable and secure costume.
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) was quoted as saying that during the filming of the episode : "Who Mourns For Adonais ?", he -- and other members of the cast & crew -- were praying that Leslie Parrish might have a "wardrobe malfunction" while wearing that particular costume. 🤭😌😏😍
Mark, your comedic dry humor approach to movie reviews is straight genius and refreshingly new all at the same time. Thank you for sharing your unique talents with us. We are not worthy!
I stop IMMEDIATELY what I'm doing the moment I see the notification for this... The Giant Spider Invasion, literally in my Top 5 movies of ALL-TIME, ever made!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this movie, soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Arachnophobia is still the scariest spider movie of all time and it was made over 30 years ago. Most of the jump scares still hold up and the fact that they used real spiders for most of the film still makes my skin crawl a little bit. This travesty on the other hand, is just comedy. That huge spider puppet is used to houses all over the US for Halloween decorations now.
I vividly remember watching Arachnophobia as a kid and even as an adult I still think it's incredibly creepy and effective. The stuff like the guy getting but in the tent or the guy finding the dead spider in the box of snacks have always stuck in my head lol
I had a classmate that wrecked her car due to a bee . Instead of being calm and pulling over she crashed into a ditch resulting in a few broken bones and whiplash.
My brother drove into a brick wall when a wasp flew in his side window. He said, "I hate wasps", which is funny because at 40mph I would hate brick walls more.
Twist ending would be a self made clone that walks up just as a crowd is about to pulverise him, points down the street and says, "he's over there!!" And they all run away.
Man I watched this as a kid and all I was able to remember was spiders in rocks and the line "Little pink ones". Thank you for clearing up what the hell it was, been bugging me for over thirty years!
Thanks Mark, I've never even heard of this one. I love the giant spiders! The filmmakers may have had a tiny budget, but they really put it all up on the screen. Re the poster...have you seen the hand-painted movie posters made by artists in Africa? They're AMAZING. If you do an image search for "African movie poster" you'll find a ton of them - it's a whole art genre. Apparently the artists almost never get to see the movie in advance, so they're working from a few photos or even just a title, plus their own imagination, so you wind up with a cross between an old-fashioned movie poster and a fever dream.
MARK!!!!this is my new favorite channel...I can't believe u don't got one shitty video...no misses...and by golly you post regularly!!! Thank u for making RUclips cool!
5:14 This whole driving part is my favorite....I have watched it a lot of times😂....i keep coming back to this video for this alone. WHY IS THIS GUY SOOOO UNDERRATED.😩
I don't know about the rest of you but I would pay GOOD money to have Derrick's Discount Distractions on speed dial - sounds like a life saver, can't believe no one has thought about such a service before, lol!
"While attempting to film a scene where the spider explodes, the effects team covered the prop with gunpowder and had a crew member attempt to ignite it with matches. Despite using the entire matchbox, the spider did not explode and Rebane decided to stop filming. Immediately after they stopped, the spider exploded, causing two crew members to get their hair singed and be taken to the hospital to be treated for severe burns." I can't even ... 🤦♀😂
Mark, you and me are comedy doppelgängers. Every time I watch one of your videos I know exactly where you’re going but everything which is so awesome Keep up the great word your show is hilarious.
CLASSIC! That movie was kind of big deal when it came out. Lots of ads for it. I talked my dad into taking me to see it at the drive in. I was 7...Got a hot dog and a hamburger at the snack shack that night! Good Times!
I mean, considering its from 1975 and they used an actual huge spider puppet instead of just an overlay makes it look not that bad imo. Glad the creepy dude got eaten first though.
Well, we have to admit that Bill Rebane was just ahead of the curve... I mean, locking a scripwriter in starving isolation to force him to write is what we call today "standart procedure"...
This was on TV years ago when one of my buds was over. We laughed loudly throughout it, and wasn't surprised that it was filmed in our home state of Wisconsin.
Some people say the sheriff got his job after some kind of trouble with his previous job. Something with a ship that gave short tours, like 3 hour tours.
@@TheRogueWolf It was a fateful trip. All starting from a tropic port aboard a tiny ship. There was a whole set of historical records covering it. Similar to the historical records of the crew of the NSEA-Protector.
Derrick wiped-out half of my town with a 12 megatons hydrogen bomb to save me from a boring family dinner. Thank you, Derrick! The "Red telephones are hot" scene looks like something you can expect in a spoof movie like The Naked Gun.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan RUclips has like 90% of the episodes, including the KTMA episodes. I even put together a nice playlist of them. Besides that, Tubi has a nice collection of them, and then there is The Gizmoplex that let's you watch all the old episodes for free, it's run by Joe Robinson, so it is 100% legit.
Is it me or did Mark get a bit of a tan? Keep up the great work and that lovely skin tone! Your healthy skin tone convinces me that you are NOT a movie zombie. We love you man!
Another amazing roast. The mst3k guys riffed this in episode 810. Excellent work on the infomercial! Amazon pay Mark, at least via a referral link for the DVDs. 😉 👌
I like this concept of a disruptive event opening up a doomed dimension with horrible spiders. I think I'd try to make a movie like this with the style of Gremlins 1, only with nightmarish spiders of different kinds. They'd be really die hard, but still getting blasted by townsfolks having bigger survival instincts than them. Would be cool, you'd get: house sized spider, acid spewing spider, tree flying spider, spider shooting people with hair pins as sharps as needles, subterranean digging spider laying traps...
"Sometimes the only way that I know you're still alive is when I hear you flush the toilet" 🤣🤣🤣 That's a great line. You could have a serious drinking game if you had a drink every time Ev did.
The real miracle is the fact that this film has some good actors. Alan Hale, Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, all good actors paid to do this.
15 years ago I found a 70s shirt that really looked good and fairly modern. Then I realized that polyester doesn't need to be ironed and well...thats a game changer. I now seek them out and have 10 or so. Love those shirts. I have 1 that has that repeat pattern but it's an authentic Harley Davidson and is completely bad ass. Dude, YOU DON'T HAVE TO IRON THEM
For a relatively low budget movie the giant spider was pretty well done the rest of it is as cheese as hell. On a funny coincidence not that far from where I live there is a a family that go full on decorating their house for Halloween now here in Australia that is really uncommon but they have a massive I'm talking covers the whole roof of their house spider that looks a lot like the scene out of the movie
I love how Mark just assumes that we're giving him attitude 😂
You aren't?!
@@samholdsworth420 hell yea! But that's not the point 😜
He’s gotta do Freddy Got Fingered! Anyone agree?
@@ANT96-x8d 💯👍🏻
To be fair i do sass him in my head on occasion.
Robert Easton, who plays creepy Dan, and also wrote the script, was a highly respected actor with a 60-year career. He was also the world's greatest authority on regional accents in American English, and for that matter expert on all the world's English accents. His career as a voice coach was far more lucrative than his acting career.
I wonder if he knew the New Orleans accent, because Hollywood always gets it wrong.
And yet the MST3K watching world remembers him from a scene in cruddy long-johns and a hernia belt.
Hey at least he’s getting remembered
He was the klingon judge in ST undiscovered country, too!
I wondered if he tried to put on a wisconsin accent for this movie because the movie was filmed in Merril wisconsin aka my parent's favorite summer spot
"You know it's morning coz she's breaking her breakfast beer" is a perfect line, delivered in such a deadpan way, bravo! 😍
Meanwhile here in Czech Republic, its a normal thing to do. 😂
IIRC the biggest spider was a Volkswagen Beetle with a spider "costume" draped over it. The headlights were the spider's large yes, which is why they glow so bright. Inside the small car, a bunch of people controlled the legs. The whole contraption was burned for the final scene, but remains of the burnt-out chassis can still be found in the area where it was filmed.
That's actually pretty cool
No! It can't be! It was a real, giant spider, surely? You'll be telling me that Ewoks aren't real, next. Don't...
@@TheCatBilbo Wait till you hear what I found out about Santa Claus!
@@HerrCherno -- His diet is gluten-free?
I’ve sat in the burned remains. I was rejected by a pretty girl there.
Ah memories
The farmer has to be my favorite character. Wearing a girdle around the house, having prayer meetings with the Swedish bar tender, and finding space diamonds with a southern accent.
He is also an expert linguist who could do different regional accents...I saw him on Johnny Carson.
What I love about Mark's videos is that they have family friendly holiday vibes. It's Christmas time. In July.
There's so much reactionary pearl clutching on RUclips these days (it's a Star Wars tv show, it doesn't need 70 videos of someone bitching) that I now crave a Mark upload. Genuinely a highlight of my day when it happens.
@@DroosterH Um at 4min 13sec into episode 3 You can see Vaders chest panel has lights when it shouldn’t. You’re saying that isn’t important to you?! It ruined my whole week
I never thought about this. And I agree.
Heck... At 6:13 we see spider attacking butt cleavage. Family friendly indeed!
@@SilentCheesedude i wanna help. Spider attacks butt cleavage at 16:13
It's a Giant Spider Invasion of savings at Maynard's! I love when Mark covers movies from MST3K, it's like double dipping.
Menard's. It's an actual regional chain of big-box home improvement stores ala Home Depot or Lowes.
He's really been dipping into the SOL's well of happiness lately, isn't he?
PACKERZ WUN TH' SUPERBOWL!! PACKERZ!!
@@ScreamingScallop beat me to it.
@@ItsMrAssholeToYou oops, my bad. As a lifelong MSTie I should know better.🤭
I went and saw this movie at the theater when I was a kid. They gave us a free comic book version of the movie which I thought was pretty cool
Hey, that is pretty cool. ✌️
I can understand that for kids this movie would actually work.
Robert Easton was also a dialect coach. He helped Ben Kingsley play "Ghandi" and Forest Whitaker play Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland". Yet look at him in this! I think it's amazing.
I thought I recognized him! I saw him on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. It was fascinating to hear him talking in different dialects.
He was in A Touch of Satan too; both movies were on MST3K
He'll always be the "You've been hittin' the bewz again" guy to me.
You made me look him up and this man was genuinely fascinating: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Easton_(actor)
He's the highlight of the film. Most of the jokes in the MST3K print are about his character. His role here is considerably larger than the Touch of Satan one.
I can't see this movie without thinking about MST3K going "Woo Packers!" every time there was a large crowd shot
I remember that! 😆
“Less schools more hockey arenas!” “Wait we can’t hunt we’re not drunk enough yet!”
"We all know why we're here."
"YEAH, PACKERS!"
@@TerrenceNowicki PACKERS!!!
The Distracted Driving bit caught me so off guard I was cackling and crying from laughter. 10/10 rewatched that portion a few times
This is actually a pretty good movie, or at least it's no Monster a-Go-Go. It does move along, and the characters are interesting in a kinda sleazy and/or boozy sort of way. And it's got some ambition. Car crashes, actual practical giant spider props.... No, they're not convincing, but it beats "Suddenly, there was no monster."
It took two directors to make "Monster a-Go-Go" and that awful ending was Herschell Gordon Lewis throwing up his arms and saying "The movie is over an hour long and I don't give a crap." Bill Rebane would have set the monster on fire or something.
It's one of the best MST3K episodes because in spite of how cheezy it is the movie is still entertaining in its own right.
Those giant spiders were about as good as you could expect for 1975. Basically just cars in spider suits.
No. I assure you, there were people capable of making movies even back in the 70s. This is all Bill "That'll do" Rebane.
@@tskmaster3837 having lived through the 70s, I would like to see the movie made back then with a convincing giant spider. I don’t think one existed until Shelob from Return of the King, in 2003.
@@Barada73 To put this "spider' on the same level as Tarantula, Them or the Black Scorpion... brought to life by way of process shots, puppets and stop motion respectively.... or even BIG's Earth Versus the Spider.... yikes.... is an insult to the concept of special effects.
My own personal pick for "Best Giant Spider" will always go to The Incredible Shrinking Man. It's a man sized spider because it's a spider sized man so what they did was sell the background using special sets... oh right, that's what they did in Lord of the Rings. The spider was CGI but the technique to sell it is older than film itself.
@@tskmaster3837 I am fascinated by your comment that comparing these special effects with the other special effects you mentioned was insulting to the concept of special effects. why? I grew up in the 70's and I wasn't impressed by any of the films you mentioned or their special effects. I am not an expert and don't care to argue, so I am really just interested in your own opinion as to why the effects you mentioned should be seen in - what - another category of special effects altogether? If it is unconvincing, what difference does it make how unconvincing it is?
Cars need more costumes.
"I don't know, pick one. There's seven of them." Oh, man I was in tears. Brilliant, Mark!
This was one of my favorite episodes of MST3K.
PACKERS!!!
Me too!!!
" I can't believe I let you roll on me!"
@@soosquatch4236 so happy someone quoted that
"So, now, it's the next morning. You can tell, because Ev has cracked open her 'breakfast' beer..."
I don't know exactly why, but that floored me. It's just the dry, sardonic, matter-of-fact way he delivers that line...and, well...every line, actually.
I remember seeing this movie at the theater. Back then we would go see a matinee on Sunday afternoon at least twice a month. The theater would only have two screens and we would pick by looking at the movie posters outside the theater. I never heard of Star Wars when I went to go see it. We almost saw Orca instead.
I saw this on channel 100. Pre HBO days
Your loss
Orca is epic!!!!
Not really....
😜
Orca is better.
I haven't seen Orca, but, I saw Free Willy. I regretted it.
@@lesliehenry3441 Haha gold
Derek's Direct has made another satisfied customer. I was supposed to donate a kidney to someone in need. I realized My alcohol issues mirror the lady in the spider movie so I knew I needed both of them. Him dressing up as a nurse and blowing up the west wing of the hospital created the distraction I needed to get out of there. Thanks Derek
I think I was there that day! I was undergoing an appendix transplant. Didn't the nurse have green hair and white makeup?
@@seanryan3020 Yes! Wow see Derek's distractions are so good they are remembered to someone having a surgery
@@seanryan3020 I tried to get him to dress up in leather with a mask that looked like a bat but they only had green dye and white face paint on clearance so we went with that.
Your entire driving while distracted and hitting a giant upside down spider was pure gold. If I had a dollar for every time that has happened to me....I may have two dollars, but I can't remember. Trauma, you understand.
I always expect it to be a giant invasion of spiders rather than an invasion of giant spiders. Also I admire your restraint in not doing a Gilligan’s Island joke the moment Alan Hale, Jr. shows up!
Yeah, I was waiting for the "hey little buddy" line!
Mike and the Robots on MST3K did that, when they riffed this movie :)
i delved into the comments looking for this
@@DickDiamond74 as did I!
Or a Perry Mason joke with Barbara Hale (no relation) shows up.
This movie was featured in one of the funniest MST3K episodes.
I'm actually very impressed they made a model of a giant spider, rather than just switching to zoomed in footage of a real spider (like Night of the Lepus did with rabbits).
this is the most professionally made and underrated channel I've ever watched.
The "How the script was written" story is awesome.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring this cinematic abortion is a classic.
'Charles Manson, jeweler'
@@furrybogard9724 WOO! PACKERS!
i WAS just talking to my wife about a movie i saw as a kid with a giant spider n couldnt remember it. Then this pops up! haha. thank you!
Keep it up Man! Your channel is still underrated. I’m a follower for years now and your videos never disappoint. The Derek skit was hilarious. Greetings from Germany
“Sin… he was against it” is an objectively hilarious line.
The spider probably got blackout drunk after eating the farm lady.
I remember seeing this in the drive-thru when it first came out. Mark's video on this could have easily been twice the length and would have been just as funny and interesting. When you consider the cast alone, he could have gotten a lot more mileage out of it. Alan Hale Jr. (the skipper from Gilligan's Isle), Leslie Parrish (starred in many movies and TV shows, including Star Trek TOS), Barbara Hale (from Perry Mason), Robert Easton (also many movies and TV shows), a lot of actors who had a successful career at one point and probably just accepted their roles in this movie for financial reasons.
Yeah, surprised he didn't mention Hale; I guess most people under 40 have never seen Gilligan's Island.
Yet with a budget of 300K, they couldn't have made much.
Every time I see those old cats first run up that hill, encounter the spider, then immediately fall and ROLL back down the hill, I damn near pee myself laughing.
And I don't care what anybody says, those long shots of the spider moving across the land from afar are CREEPY. Love this movie. Thanks for your hilarious commentary.
The amount of extras they had on set during the town attack scenes is actually pretty impressive for such a low budget b-movie. It looks like they employed a literal small town's worth of people to run around.
The "pay" was probably "wanna be in a movie?"
Those kids running look exactly like the ones during the candy drop at our annual air show.
"[Go] Packers !!"....😊
Yknow I was sad when Mark didn't put himself in the movie this time......
And then he totally redeemed himself with the commercial at the end. I would, no lie, use his distraction service at least once just to witness the majesty
I saw this in the drive in. It was the second movie of a double feature and being 8 I was supposed to be asleep in the back seat, but yeah, right.
The part where Alan Hale died I was like "Oh no, The skipper!" and my mom and dad start laughing.
Oh GD I have no smokes and my car won't start dead battery been waiting 7 hours for friend to come jump me and they bring smokes. I'm tweeking hard and Mark just came through with a good fix. Thanks Broskie
"Sin. He's aaaah. . . against it."
Kudo's to the writers. That was actually pretty darn funny!
Oh, okaaay, THATS where I've seen that drunkard. She was in the Star Trek episode Who Mourns For Adonis. Costume designer William Theiss created a gown for her that had a length of fabric that draped over her breasts and over her shoulder to form a cape.
She wore no support and her bare back was visible. The only thing that held the front in place was the weight of the cape. Shatner and rest of the men in the cast were constantly worried the thing would slide off. The actress Leslie Parrish got kick out of them being nervous but said it was an extremely comfortable and secure costume.
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) was quoted as saying that during the filming of the episode : "Who Mourns For Adonais ?", he -- and other members of the cast & crew -- were praying that Leslie Parrish might have a "wardrobe malfunction" while wearing that particular costume. 🤭😌😏😍
Mark, your comedic dry humor approach to movie reviews is straight genius and refreshingly new all at the same time. Thank you for sharing your unique talents with us. We are not worthy!
The “dangers of distracted driving” got me. 🤣
I stop IMMEDIATELY what I'm doing the moment I see the notification for this... The Giant Spider Invasion, literally in my Top 5 movies of ALL-TIME, ever made!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this movie, soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Me, a person who is terrified of spiders "sure I can watch this. the spiders will be fake"
Ended up not looking at most of the video
I'm pretty sure at least 3 of Derrick's distractions are felonies. 😂
Yep and the Skipper sure could've use some help from the Professor.
I love the skipper!!!!!
If Gilligan was around the spiders would have been his fault.
Arachnophobia is still the scariest spider movie of all time and it was made over 30 years ago. Most of the jump scares still hold up and the fact that they used real spiders for most of the film still makes my skin crawl a little bit.
This travesty on the other hand, is just comedy. That huge spider puppet is used to houses all over the US for Halloween decorations now.
I vividly remember watching Arachnophobia as a kid and even as an adult I still think it's incredibly creepy and effective. The stuff like the guy getting but in the tent or the guy finding the dead spider in the box of snacks have always stuck in my head lol
With all the personal family stuff I've had to deal with this is the perfect tonic to help me relax and wind down after a really busy weekend.
With all the recent episodes your done Mark with movies featured on MST3K, I would love to see Squirm done soon!
I had a classmate that wrecked her car due to a bee . Instead of being calm and pulling over she crashed into a ditch resulting in a few broken bones and whiplash.
My brother drove into a brick wall when a wasp flew in his side window. He said, "I hate wasps", which is funny because at 40mph I would hate brick walls more.
Did the bee survive?
@@alexmuenster2102 Not sure 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Love you, Mark. You deserve a million subscribers.
This was one of my favorite reviews ever!
I envision an entire Derek universe where at the end of his own awkward commercials he rescues himself from them. 😂
Twist ending would be a self made clone that walks up just as a crowd is about to pulverise him, points down the street and says, "he's over there!!" And they all run away.
“Sloth it up a bit.” Advice to live by. Or I would live by it if I could be bothered to get off this sofa and you know, actually live…
You sound proud of you slothy lifestyle. So, two sins for the price of one. And, depending on what you're watching, it could be three.
Man I watched this as a kid and all I was able to remember was spiders in rocks and the line "Little pink ones".
Thank you for clearing up what the hell it was, been bugging me for over thirty years!
Thanks Mark, I've never even heard of this one. I love the giant spiders! The filmmakers may have had a tiny budget, but they really put it all up on the screen.
Re the poster...have you seen the hand-painted movie posters made by artists in Africa? They're AMAZING. If you do an image search for "African movie poster" you'll find a ton of them - it's a whole art genre.
Apparently the artists almost never get to see the movie in advance, so they're working from a few photos or even just a title, plus their own imagination, so you wind up with a cross between an old-fashioned movie poster and a fever dream.
Giant? In Australia, they are considered just babies.
When I was a kid my bedroom had wallpaper like that guys shirt! An endless montage of cowboys and Indians on horseback.
I find the prospect of Derek having a "secret menu" terrifying.
MARK!!!!this is my new favorite channel...I can't believe u don't got one shitty video...no misses...and by golly you post regularly!!!
Thank u for making RUclips cool!
5:14 This whole driving part is my favorite....I have watched it a lot of times😂....i keep coming back to this video for this alone. WHY IS THIS GUY SOOOO UNDERRATED.😩
I don't know about the rest of you but I would pay GOOD money to have Derrick's Discount Distractions on speed dial - sounds like a life saver, can't believe no one has thought about such a service before, lol!
The commercial at the end was pure gold 🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍
I missed you editing yourself into the Movie Mark!
Respect for the film for casting the lovely Leslie Parish and "Casey Jones"
"While attempting to film a scene where the spider explodes, the effects team covered the prop with gunpowder and had a crew member attempt to ignite it with matches. Despite using the entire matchbox, the spider did not explode and Rebane decided to stop filming. Immediately after they stopped, the spider exploded, causing two crew members to get their hair singed and be taken to the hospital to be treated for severe burns."
I can't even ... 🤦♀😂
Mark, you and me are comedy doppelgängers. Every time I watch one of your videos I know exactly where you’re going but everything which is so awesome Keep up the great word your show is hilarious.
CLASSIC! That movie was kind of big deal when it came out. Lots of ads for it. I talked my dad into taking me to see it at the drive in. I was 7...Got a hot dog and a hamburger at the snack shack that night! Good Times!
*"Spiders! A giant Legion of Spiders!"*
Nostalgia Critic: *"Goddammit, Dr. Smith!"*
I mean, considering its from 1975 and they used an actual huge spider puppet instead of just an overlay makes it look not that bad imo. Glad the creepy dude got eaten first though.
Well, we have to admit that Bill Rebane was just ahead of the curve...
I mean, locking a scripwriter in starving isolation to force him to write is what we call today "standart procedure"...
Dude I love your show so much man. Always perks up my mood when I see you have a new video.
This was on TV years ago when one of my buds was over. We laughed loudly throughout it, and wasn't surprised that it was filmed in our home state of Wisconsin.
Marks commentary is genius and Hilarious!! Bravo man!! 😂👍
The rant on driving distracted was funny af. Thanks bro I needed that
Some people say the sheriff got his job after some kind of trouble with his previous job. Something with a ship that gave short tours, like 3 hour tours.
I'll sit right back. I'd like to hear this tale!
@@TheRogueWolf It was a fateful trip. All starting from a tropic port aboard a tiny ship.
There was a whole set of historical records covering it. Similar to the historical records of the crew of the NSEA-Protector.
Derrick wiped-out half of my town with a 12 megatons hydrogen bomb to save me from a boring family dinner. Thank you, Derrick!
The "Red telephones are hot" scene looks like something you can expect in a spoof movie like The Naked Gun.
First heard of this movie thanks to MST3K. Yeah, it is cheesy, and a good one to be reviewed on this channel. Thank you for this video.
Do you know where to find the show today? I've been wanting to watch it for a good while.
@@DenSvartaStjarnan RUclips has like 90% of the episodes, including the KTMA episodes. I even put together a nice playlist of them. Besides that, Tubi has a nice collection of them, and then there is The Gizmoplex that let's you watch all the old episodes for free, it's run by Joe Robinson, so it is 100% legit.
@@JenMistress Thanks!
The distracted driving PSA was my favorite part.
This has got to be the inspiration for the cult film “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”!
I thought it looked familiar especially with the crowds running around. Just switch the spiders to tomatoes.
Man you know those extras from that town had fun
Mark: How many pieces of art do you have hanging in your closet?
Me: I own 15 Hawaiian shirts.
Is it me or did Mark get a bit of a tan? Keep up the great work and that lovely skin tone! Your healthy skin tone convinces me that you are NOT a movie zombie. We love you man!
Another amazing roast. The mst3k guys riffed this in episode 810. Excellent work on the infomercial! Amazon pay Mark, at least via a referral link for the DVDs. 😉 👌
He knows, he pretty much steals his playlist from them.
They did a Rifftrax version too and its hilarious.
PACKERS!!!
Can't see footage of this movie without hearing Tom Servo and Crow shouting Gilligan's Island quotes.
I like this concept of a disruptive event opening up a doomed dimension with horrible spiders. I think I'd try to make a movie like this with the style of Gremlins 1, only with nightmarish spiders of different kinds. They'd be really die hard, but still getting blasted by townsfolks having bigger survival instincts than them. Would be cool, you'd get: house sized spider, acid spewing spider, tree flying spider, spider shooting people with hair pins as sharps as needles, subterranean digging spider laying traps...
"Sometimes the only way that I know you're still alive is when I hear you flush the toilet" 🤣🤣🤣 That's a great line.
You could have a serious drinking game if you had a drink every time Ev did.
Things exploded way more in the 70's😂
The vehicles had a built in button on the top where if it were to flip over the entire thing would go up in flames after exploding
They only had two building materials back then...gasoline and asbestos.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing a portion of our film.
Movies like this were so ridiculous but so much fun to watch.
"... and you're right... uh and I could do without the attitude, BTW"
Yes!!! always super excited to watch your videos.
Thanks for your work, you're great!
The real miracle is the fact that this film has some good actors. Alan Hale, Robert Easton, Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, all good actors paid to do this.
Always love watching your videos mark! This one was quite stellar as usual! ,Really loved the Derek DISTRACTIONS skit at the end, youz a funny guy
"How many pieces of art do you have in your closet?"
-Me thinking about my entire wardrobe of metal band merch...ummm
Packers won the Super Bowl…
15 years ago I found a 70s shirt that really looked good and fairly modern. Then I realized that polyester doesn't need to be ironed and well...thats a game changer. I now seek them out and have 10 or so. Love those shirts. I have 1 that has that repeat pattern but it's an authentic Harley Davidson and is completely bad ass. Dude, YOU DON'T HAVE TO IRON THEM
The Skipper could have just called in The Professor . . .
Always the best part of my Sunday.
For a relatively low budget movie the giant spider was pretty well done the rest of it is as cheese as hell. On a funny coincidence not that far from where I live there is a a family that go full on decorating their house for Halloween now here in Australia that is really uncommon but they have a massive I'm talking covers the whole roof of their house spider that looks a lot like the scene out of the movie
"You can tell because (Ev) is cracking open her breakfast beer" Hahahaha. Classic!
Mark: "Sloth it up every now and then."
Me: "Nah, I'm too lazy."
LOL !
Loved the distracted driving bit. Watched it a few times alone.. hysterical