"Can you eat uranium?"

Horrors of Spider Island

Official MovieGuy review:
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When a troupe of dancers travelling from New York to Singapore crash the plane they're flying in near a destered island, you can only imagine what kinds of trouble they can get into. Not to mention the fact that there is a ton of uranium on the deserted island, and a really big mutated spider that isn't too happy to see them either.

When the girls' manager is bitten by the spider, he turns into a hurry-faced killing machine, bent on killing all of the girls. As they are picked off one-by-one, the girls screech and wail and run around in circles. Luckily, two scientists show up and they try and help out the cause... when they aren't trying to flirt with the ladies.

This movie boasts a hilarious soundtrack. At times sounding like outtake music from Taxi Driver and other times, really bad swing music, and others, really sleazy porn music, there isnt really many places where the music playing fits what is on the screen. But it sure sounds funny.

Needless to say, with a group of eight dancers, on a hot deserted island, there is a lot of running around scantily clad in bras, underwear and bathing suits.

I found this movie quite funyn actually. Pretty good idea for a story, hilariously thrown onto the screen. And the pace and plot of the movie is enough to make one laugh too. What do you do after one of your friends is murdered by a furry-faced man-spider? Why, go skinny dipping of course. And what do you do when your group is slowly being picked off one-by-one after the scientists show up? Well, let's have a dance. Show them boys we don't really know a thing or two about dancing.

A good time had watching this one. Another great B-Movie classic from the 50 Sci-Fi Classics boxed set. Maybe The Wasp Woman today? We shall have to see.