Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
“Terror has 8 legs.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 46, rated by 1 admin.
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A cargo-plane crash introduces dangerous spiders to a California town. The earnest emergency response and questionable arachnid behaviour provide the curiosity, but extended containment efforts make this a slower creature watch than the alarming title suggests.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5/10
- Plot
- 6/10
- Effects
- 3/10
- Dialogue
- 5/10
- Rewatchability
- 4/10
“The cargo manifest forgot several hundred passengers.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 46
Synopsis and movie facts
When a cargo plane carrying coffee beans crashes near a small California citrus town, it releases a horde of deadly, highly aggressive South American tarantulas into the unsuspecting community. As mysterious deaths begin to pile up, local officials race against time to identify the venomous threat before it spreads. But with the spiders converging on the town's vital orange-processing factory, can the citizens find a way to stop the infestation before their entire town is overrun?
- Released
- 1977
- Directed by
- Stuart Hagmann
- Running time
- 100 min
Starring
- Claude Akins as Bert Springer
- Charles Frank as Joe Harmon
- Deborah Winters as Cindy Beck
- Bert Remsen as Mayor Douglas
- Sandy McPeak
- Pat Hingle as Doc Hodgins
- Tom Atkins as Buddy
- Howard Hesseman as Fred
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