There is a ritual, enacted in the dead of night, that takes place only when Mr. Otter is away...I speak, of course, of the AGVAPSNBA*. This movie was part of one of these dark and secret ceremonies...

This one is really good if you like to make funny remarks at bad movies a la MST3K. (btw, this movie was indeed used in a MST3K episode...) As my movie buddy Virago says, the title should really be, "Town of 37 people vs. the oversized tarantula", but that's harder to fit on the marquee. Giant spider living in a cave kills a couple of people (nice corpse-with-the-juices-sucked-out effect) and is finally blown up by townspeople. Typical fifties special effects, giant spider, teen rock band, that sort of thing.

Reality police: So everyone (the boy and the girl and the chief of police and a couple of cops, practically everyone in the movie) go off to the spider cave (which is Carlsbad Caverns, btw, although the town is somewhere near LA...) and go looking for the girl's father...and find him, a desiccated corpse. The chief of police COMPLETELY ignores the THREE OTHER SKELETONS lying nearby, guess they weren't interesting enough...each one is also wired together into a complete skeleton, very amusing!

*All Girls Video And Pizza Sleepover No Boys Allowed. The theme this particular time was, 'the movie that scared you before you were 10 years old'. Each attendee brings one and we draw names from a bowl to pick the ones we actually watch.