Name: B Movies (2/10) - The Giant Spider Invasion
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Description: What do you need for the perfect monster-horror flic to rival Jaws? A giant 25 foot spider made out of a Volkswagen of course! Director Bill Rebane recounts the making of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), affectionately known as The Giant Spider Disaster. One thing is sure, there has never been a film quite like this before.

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"Inwazja olbrzymich pajaków"  (1975)

L'invasione dei ragni giganti (Stati Uniti, 1975)

What do you need for the perfect monster-horror flic to rival Jaws? A giant 25 foot spider made out of a Volkswagen of course! Director Bill Rebane recounts the making of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), affectionately known as The Giant Spider Disaster. One thing is sure, there has never been a film quite like this before.

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B Movies

What do you need for the perfect monster-horror flic to rival Jaws? A giant 25 foot spider made out of a Volkswagen of course! Director Bill Rebane recounts the making of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), affectionately known as The Giant Spider Disaster. One thing is sure, there has never been a film quite like this before.

The Giant Spider Invasion

How do you make a monster-horror movie in 1975 to rival Jaws? With a giant spiders of course! 

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The 1980s: the age of the blockbuster, or in the case of Megaforce, the flopbuster. With a production budget twice that of Star Wars and with a scenario created to sell merchandise to 12 year olds, Megaforce was a commercial and artistic disaster. And yet the train wreck of a film has its fans...

Megaforce

The 1980s: the age of the blockbuster, or in the case of Megaforce, the flopbuster.

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Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots and monsters made from cardboard and papier-mâché could the audience suspend their disbelief? No. But thanks to its lovingly crafted DIY special effects, it has a special place in B movie history.

Starcrash

Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots suspended on wires, could the audience suspend their disbelief?

B Movies (3/10)

Süpermen Dönüyor (1979) is a quintessential example of Turkish remake cinema. Indistinguishable from the US blockbuster except that Superman soars like a bird thanks to the director’s wife’s hair dryer.

Süpermen Dönüyor

Süpermen Dönüyor (1979) is a quintessential example of Turkish remake cinema. 

B Movies (4/10)

Love at first sight between a woman and a gorilla: A deranged screenplay by Ed Wood, 1950s Hollywood B Movie genius obsessed by Angora wool jumpers.

The Bride and the Beast (1958)

B Movies (5/10)

Karate versus Mafia is famous for being the very worst film in Spanish cinema history. A very personal and naïve tribute to Hong-Kong cinema.

Karate versus Mafia

B-Movies (6/10)

Iranian exile John S. Rad spent twenty years of his life making one movie in his adopted California, filming it scene by scene when he had the money. The result is Dangerous Men, an incoherent police drama that baffled cinema audiences like no other film.

Dangerous Men

Iranian exile John S. Rad spent twenty years of his life making one movie in his adopted California. Results? Not so good. 

B Movies! (7/10)

Rats: Night of Terror (1984), shot in a dingy Italian studio by the prolific Bruno Mattei is a low budget Mad Max. The young cast have live rats regularly and mercilessly thrown at them as they fight for their lives against the murine hoard! They may survive the night, but will they save their acting careers?

Rats of Manhattan

Rats: Night of Terror (1984), shot in a dingy Italian studio by the prolific Bruno Mattei is a low budget Mad Max.

B Movies (8/10)

Phantom Soliders (1987) was inspired by the many Hollywood Vietnam War movies of the 1980s. Made in the Philippines by a mostly local crew and a few American actors such as Max Thayer, its trump card was being able to work with the real Philippine army.

Phantom Soldiers

Phantom Soliders (1987) was inspired by the many Hollywood Vietnam War movies of the 1980s. 

B Movies! (9/10)

Truly awful films are still being mad today: Ted Chalmers’ Disaster Wars: Earthquake Vs Tsunami imagines what would happen if a seismic event took on a tidal wave in a fight. Welcome to the world of the mockbuster.

Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami

This film imagines what would happen if a seismic event took on a tidal wave in a fight.  Not a classic.

B Movies (10/10)

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Four women comic book artists from the Arab World open the doors of their studios and tell us about their experiences and their struggles. 

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