Saturday, May 5, 2007
12:30 AM Earth Vs. the Spider
2:00 AM The Fly
Earth Vs. the Spider (1958)
Horror , Science Fiction , Suspense
TVG, AIP
Mickey Finn
Sally Fraser
June Jocelyn
Ed Kemmer
June Kenney
Hank Patterson
Gene Persson
Gene Roth
Hal Torey
Two teenagers (June Kenney and Gene Persson) find a giant spider in a cave. While dormant, the beast is brought to a high school auditorium, where it revives and proceeds to spread terror through the area. A local teacher (Ed Kemmer) helps lead the battle against it. Also known as The Spider, this fun low-budget chiller from producer-director Bert I. Gordon, a specialist in outsized monsters (1957's The Amazing Colossal Man), boasts above-average special effects.
Mickey Finn, Sally Fraser, June Jocelyn, Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Hank Patterson, Gene Persson, Gene Roth, Hal Torey
Director Bert I. Gordon
Producer Bert I. Gordon
Director of Photography Jack Marta
Editor Ronald Sinclair
Composer Albert Glasser
Screenwriter Laszlo Gorog
George Worthing Yates
The Fly (1958)
Horror , Monster , Science Fiction
TVY, Twentieth Century Fox
Herbert Marshall
Vincent Price
The classic science fiction-horror film about a scientist's two "teleport" machines, one of which dissolves atoms, while the other reconstructs them. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with a common housefly, he turns into a hideous hybrid of man and insect--and begins to literally bug out. The scientist wants to reverse the process, but first he must catch that fly. Hilarious as well as horrific, this spawned two sequels in the '50s ("Return of the Fly" and "Curse of the Fly") before starting another cycle in the '80s, beginning with David Cronenberg's elegant updating ("The Fly," 1986). Vincent Price stars as the doomed scientist's brother.
Herbert Marshall, Vincent Price
Director Kurt Neumann
Producer Kurt Neumann
Director of Photography Karl Struss
Editor Merrill White
Composer Paul Sawtell
Screenwriter James Clavell
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