Woodyanders Eight showgirls, rugged manly man manager Gary Webster (smoothly played by Alexander D'Arcy), and Gary's strict assistant Georgia (a solid portrayal by Helga Franck) seek refuge on a remote tropical island after surviving a plane crash. However, said island turns out to be overrun by giant lethal spiders. Gary transforms into a ferocious predatory subhuman beast complete with claws and fangs in the wake of being bitten by one of the spiders.While director Fritz Bottger fails to generate much in the way of either tension or creepy atmosphere, he nonetheless keeps the entertainingly silly story moving along at a reasonable pace and delivers a pleasing plethora of tasty cheesecake. The catty and backbiting behavior of the fiercely competitive models serves as a key source of campy amusement (we even get the obligatory catfight). Moreover, the occasional use of blatant stock footage, cruddy dubbing, tacky (not so) special effects (Gary's shabby paper mache make-up in particular is positively gut-busting), wonky continuity, a ridiculous dance party sequence, and the overall shoddy production values all give this picture a certain endearingly rough'n'ready kitschy charm. The gals portraying the models are pretty hot as well, with Helga Neuner as the foxy Ann, Dorethee Parker as the pretty Gladys, Gerry Sammer as the fetching May, and Elfie Wagner as the voluptuous Linda rating as the definite sizzling stand-outs. Georg Krause's crisp black and white cinematography provides a few neat visuals. The groovy jazz score by Karl Bette and Willy Mattes hits the swinging spot. Fun rubbish.

gavin6942 Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!Starring Barbara Valentin ("World on a Wire", "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul") and Alexander D'Arcy ("How to Marry a Millionaire", "Blood of Dracula's Castle"), what is this strange German gem? Allegedly one of the worst films ever made, it has a bit of charm.The problem with this movie is the filler, which amounts to about forty-five minutes of young women running around in their underwear. Of course, this was the whole point, but it hardly makes for an interesting plot. If this was removed, it would be much better (also much shorter).The horror aspect is actually pretty cool, with a really well-designed giant spider and some decent makeup on the "spider man" (D'Arcy). There really seems to be a lot of potential for a fun, low budget horror film here... but it gets vastly overshadowed by the "nudie cutie" aspects.Although probably worth a look, it is not necessarily going to impress anyone.

Anders Twetman With a title like "Horrors of Spider Island" (I'm going by the one on the poster here) you would expect a story about a bunch of people who end up on an island full of monster spiders that kill them off horribly, but no. This is a story about a bunch of dancers who end up on an island and...well, they mostly just hang out. There is some minor bickering, they go swimming in the sea and throw a party when two men turn up, thats more or less it. Oh, there is also a sub plot about a spider that turns their manager into some kind of sad looking man-spider-thing that does pretty much nothing. Other than the miserable excuse for a plot, the pacing is really weird; character introduction is handled by a series of very haphazard work interviews with the girls that is so rushed that we learn almost nothing and after that the film slows right down. Everything moves slowly and when something finally does happen the action is really lame. Seriously, I've had more exciting days in front of the computer at the office.

wbswetnam What do you get when you mix sexy eurobabes, a few very lucky guys, a two-foot "moster" spider, a dead scientist and an uncharted island? You get the Horrors of Spider Island, of course! This thinly veiled "horror" movie is a sexploitation film featuring "dancers" en route to Singapore when their plane catches fire and slams into the ocean at hundreds of miles an hour. Of course, nearly all of them emerge without even a scratch. They make their way to an uncharted island where they waste no time making skimpy furry bathing suits to frolic around in. The women spend the majority of the time entertaining the men (!!!) and getting into occasional cat-fights with each other. There is a radioactive spider something-or-other which bites some guy who turns into a spider monster of course, but this doesn't seem the perturb the women too much. They're having too much fun getting naked and stuff.This movie is great camp and made great fodder for MST3K. Thanks, Bill Rebane, for yet another Z-grade movie!