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    Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

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    A small desert town in Arizona is overrun by tarantulas. First livestock and pets are attacked and killed before the spiders turn on the human population.

    Local vet Rack Hansen (William Shatner) is at a loss as to what’s killing the livestock, and the fun really begins when entomologist Diane Ashley (Tiffany Bolling) arrives and determines that the animals were killed by spider venom.

    The film delivers some real suspense – especially toward the end when Rack and Diane are holed up in a deserted hotel defending themselves from a legion of the eight-legged beats – and there’s a good supporting cast, but this is really a one-man Shatner show.

    $50,000 of the film budget was spent on spiders. The producers offered to pay $10 each for live tarantulas, and handlers collected 5,000 of them so there’s no CGI, no puppets, no plastic – just wall to wall spiders! Definitely not a film for arachnophobes.

    Rack Hansen
    William Shatner
    Diane Ashley
    Tiffany Bolling
    Walter Colby
    Woody Strode
    Birch Colby
    Altovise Davis
    Emma Washburn
    Lieux Dressler
    Gene Smith
    David McLean
    Linda Hansen
    Natasha Ryan
    Vern Johnson
    Joe Ross
    Terry Hansen
    Marcy Lafferty
    Betty Johnson
    Adele Malis
    Mayor Connors
    Roy Engel
    Earl Forbes
    Hoke Howell
    Clyde
    Bill Foster
    The Baron
    Whitey Hughes
    Deputy
    Jay Lawrence
    Mildred
    Bettie Bolling

    Director
    John ‘Bud’ Cardos

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