bkoganbing Poor William Shatner, how he must have longed for the deck of the Enterprise instead of the hot desert on earth surrounded by a few thousand tarantulas. Shatner is a veterinarian who has discovered that one of Woody Strode's calves was killed and the lab results which entomologist Tiffany Bolling brings in shows it was an incredible amount of spider venom.In van she's one of the scientist who has warned against the overuse of DDT which has killed the spider's natural food supply. Now the spiders have developed new feeding habits and they've gotten organized against humankind.The human players look like they would rather be anywhere than in this Thanksgiving special of a movie. Especially Shatner whom he fired his agent after this would have been justified.I will say this though, the ending was quite bizarre, almost but not quite made up for the rest of this film.Unless you love arachnids, pass it up.

jacobjohntaylor1 Why did this get 5.9 I do not know. It is just awful. It is not scary. It has an awful ending. The story line is awful. There are good actor in this movie. They wasted there talent. Do not wast time. And do not wast money. Do not see this awful movie. This about kill spiders. I could have liked this movie if the story line was not so awful. The ending really stinks. I give it 1 out of 10. This movie is a big pile of pooh pooh. Do not watch this movie. If you want see a scary movie. See Jaws or Jaws 2 of Jaws 3 of Jaws the revenge. Do not see this pooh pooh. I need more line and I am running out of things to say. Bad movie bad movie bad movie. I can not believe that the same man who wrote Piranha which is a great movie wrote this crap.

Darkweasel Sexy '70s William Shatner wears a sexy peach coloured shirt and tight sexy trousers while taking on some not so sexy killer tarantulas.Shatner plays Rack, a horse riding, lasso throwing, heartbreakin' desert veterinarian. After a local farmer's livestock and family pets start dropping unexpectedly, a hot blonde lady scientist comes to town and decides the culprits are a highly venomous strain of tarantula. Shatner, spending most of his time trying to get her into bed by being the most manly of manly men (in a peach shirt, remember) doesn't really believe such nonsense. Well, not until the farmer says "well, they could be coming from that big spider hill I noticed this morning" anyway.The spider hill is summarily burnt, but quite carelessly they miss the other thirty spider hills a little way over yonder... Cue several angry spider attacks and a spider invasion of the local town using real tarantulas at every turn. No CGI here, no siree. Even Shatner (in a blue shirt now so thankfully not ruining his peach one) is covered by twenty or thirty of the little blighters at one point. The strange thing, and the thing I love about this film, is the sudden shift in tone during the last twenty minutes. What, for the most part is your average '70s killer bug matinée movie suddenly gets quite dark and ends on a note so bleak that John Carpenter obviously took notes for The Thing.Yes, it's dated. Yes, it's ridiculously camp and badly scripted ("Look, its not just a few spiders! It's a migration due to some sort of imbalance!") but due to some interesting camera angles, spooky music and use of actual spiders, it's also highly effective.

kai ringler at first when i started watching this , i thought to myself oh no not another cheesy horror flick with no point,, well after about 20-30 mins i realized that this thankfully was not one of those. William Shatner plays the character "Rack" a veternarian dr. he discovers that something is killing of animals on a local farm in the small community. Once he makes that determination he gets the help of a professional who just happens to be female and cute. together the two of them try to figure out a way to stop the impending doom that faces the town. it is discovered that the use of DDT,, a common agent used in the 70's to kill numerous insects rodents and what not has wiped out the spider's local food supply,, so now the spiders must adapt to it's ever changing habitat, no more food, who do they turn to.. well you guessed it humans,, we are the main dish,, and now we have to fight to survive,, who better to lead us than T.J. Hooker.