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Giant Spider Invasion [DVD]

Steve Brodie (Actor), Barbara Hale (Actor), Bill Rebane (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
IMDb3.3/10.0
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Format Color, DVD, NTSC
Contributor J. Stewart Taylor, Robert Easton, Tain Bodkin, Bill Williams, Bill Rebane, Diane Lee Hart, Barbara Hale, Leslie Parrish, Richard L. Huff, Kevin Brodie, Alan Hale Jr., Steve Brodie, Paul Bentzen, Christiane Schmidtmer See more
Runtime 1 hour and 24 minutes
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Excellent DVD

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Bill Rebane
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, DVD, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 24 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale Jr.
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Retro Media
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000063W59
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Richard L. Huff, Robert Easton
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 109 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
109 global ratings

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Kevin Dudley
5.0 out of 5 stars "The Giant Spider Invasion" comes to blu-ray courtesy of Dark Force Entertainment
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020
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"The Giant Spider Invasion" was released theatrically in 1975 grossing 15 million against a minuscule budget of only $300,000. While by no means a good movie, it can be a lot of drive-in fun if you watch it with the right frame of mind. The film is perhaps even more well known as being featured in a 1997 episode of the cult show Mystery Science Theater 3000 in which a lot of joke mileage came at the expense of Alan Hale Jr. (Gillian's Island) who has a role in the film as the local sheriff. If you like cheeseball creature effects, cornball acting and bad dialogue, then it is a lot of fun. It almost makes you wonder if it was all deliberate.

Dark Force Entertainment brings "The Giant Spider Invasion" to blu-ray featuring a brand new HD transfer and restoration from the original 35mm camera negative. The film is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio (opened up a bit from its 1.85:1 theatrical presentation) utilizing the AVC codec at a solid bit rate getting up to 30 mbps during busy sections. The film looks absolutely amazing! Detail is superb, skin tones are natural, contrast/black levels are near perfect, and no digital noise reduction or edge enhancement seems to have been used. There is some very slight telecine wobble in some scenes but it is very minuscule and does not detract from what is a beautiful presentation of this cult classic. Everything looks perfectly filmic. This is quite possibly the best the film has ever looked.

The only audio option is English 2.0 DTS-HD mono which sounds great with no hiss at all. No English subtitles are included with this release.

Special features are as follows:
- Bill ReBane interview (10 min. 49 sec.)
- Robert Easton last interview (25 min. 35 sec.)
- Giant Spider music video promo (2 min. 53 sec.)

Fans of "The Giant Spider Invasion" should pick up Dark Force Entertainment's blu-ray release without hesitation. The film looks amazing, sounds great, and features some nice special features. Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grade A schlock
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2010
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The production values for this movie are indeed dreadful, but if you have a taste for low-budget films with a good attempt at making an interesting science fiction story then this movie is for you. Alan Hale is lovable as the town sheriff and Steve Brodie does his best to be the leading man who is the scientist who will save the day. Barbara Hale is the only half believable character as an astronomy professor who has a clue, while everyone else just bellows and whines in frustration. This movie will leave you laughing at some of the residents who are carrying on in their rural peyton place (Robert Easton is particularly repulsive as Dan Kester, a man who looks as if he has not bathed in a month, but he shows how talented he is to those who are familiar with his previous work).

If you want coherent movie plots and stellar dialogue, then this movie is not for you, but if you can appreciate the art of amateur film making with good humor, then please enjoy this nugget.
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Amazon Service User
3.0 out of 5 stars Awfully great!
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2015
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Just as I remembered! Awfully great!
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Linda pankow
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheesey yet awesome
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2022
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😀 I loved it 🥰
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David Zuzelo
5.0 out of 5 stars ArachniBUG! The greatest Giant Spider devised
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2021
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A wonderful transfer of one of those clunky classics that never gets old!
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Perry Mason
4.0 out of 5 stars Some bad language in this movie
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2016
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I purchased this movie because I remembered these humongous spiders attacking people from when I was a teenager watching "Midnight Theatre" on the weekends and at that time I thought it was pretty funny and wild. While I still enjoy this crazy and silly, classic sci-fi film I am reducing it to 4 stars because there is some language in the movie. While a whole lot of people today give no importance to inappropriate language or have different ideas of what appropriate or inappropriate language is I am leaving this comment only for those who are concerned about language.

I have noticed throughout my movie purchases on Amazon that a lot of the time there is no language rating given and people rarely ever speak about bad language in movies anymore. Generally movies made prior to the 1970s have no bad language because it was considered inappropriate and not allowed back then but moving into the 1970s bad language was seeping in and increasing as the years neared the 1980s.

So to whomever may be wondering about bad language in this movie, well there is some. The bad language is not real prevalent but it is there. I never counted how many times I heard it. I try to forget hearing it at all. Why on earth the writers, producers, directors, or whomever is responsible for allowing it ever allows it at all is beyond me because it only degrades the movies.

Aside from the occasional bad words, I still enjoy watching these great big spiders attacking people. Umm, sounds kind of strange. lol! What is it that is fun about watching some crazy movie that is creepy and scary? Food for thought- well, I expect that with the knowledge known about radiation today that such things may be possible if left in the wrong hands.
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annie
5.0 out of 5 stars spider movie
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2021
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Great. I love it. Thank you. Great Service.
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SM
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad movie with a little amusing cheese
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2012
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This dud of a monster film is best known for being  Mystery Science Theater 3000  fodder and it does not hold up well on its own as a bad-but-in-a-fun-way movie. It is a stupid and boring drag, although the cheap special effects for the "giant spider" might give you a laugh or two. Avoid this noisome chunk of molt at all costs.
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mike molyneaux
5.0 out of 5 stars Good service
Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2023
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Video by was delivered in great condition and on time
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Francesco
4.0 out of 5 stars b-movies old style
Reviewed in Italy on October 30, 2014
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a chi piace il genere dei b movies questo è un classico, che cmq risulta molto piu ben fatoo dei recenti shark vs octopus etc
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Massimo
1.0 out of 5 stars sconsigliato vivamente
Reviewed in Italy on September 12, 2014
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Ora io posso accettare che un film del 1975 possa anche vedersi e sentirsi male visto che non è stato restaurato,ma quello che infastidisce di piu è che in un dvd originale salti ,il doppiaggio in italiano per quasi tutto l film,cioe tu vedi il film a volte in italiano e a volte in inglese,per tutta la durata....questo è davvero inconcepibile
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Mr. Barry J. Evans
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2013
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I've recently been collecting b-movies and decided to buy this one as it appeared in the recommendations.

Usually with these movies I like the fact they're so bad they're actually good, but this is just bad!

Not really a plot to follow, terrible effects and acting and I was glad when the movie had finished!

I don't think I'll be watching this again!
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maber
1.0 out of 5 stars da evitare con cura
Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2013
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Delude anche oltre le peggiori aspettative questo dvd di pessima qualità: le immagini non solo non sono restaurate, ma sembrano provenire da una videocassetta scadente tanto sono prive sia di definizione (a tratti appaiono addirittura sfocate) sia di luminosità; l'audio è impastato e per di più di tanto in tanto diventa in inglese (ma senza sottotitoli!) presumibilmente perché si tratta di scene tagliate a suo tempo nella versione italiana. La domanda: perché uno deve pagare per acquistare un prodotto che può trovare altrettanto disastrato ma gratuitamente sul web?
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