History Film / HorrorsOfSpiderIsland

** The ladies are stranded on an island, one of the only competent members of their group has gone missing, and the food's running out. When two average-looking men show up, you'd think the ladies would have bigger concerns than seducing them, but, well... The guys ''do'' bring food and supplies with them (they were resupplying the scientist who lived on the island), but [[AngstWhatAngst forgetting about their missing friends is harder to justify]].

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Two of the dancers seem to have this going on.

* IdiotBall: One of the dancers asks if you can eat uranium.

* PlotArmor: The only way that only the females and the talent agent were able to survive the flaming, nose-down, off screen plane crash - with nary a scratch, while the pilot, and any other crew or passengers don't survive.
* QuicksandSucks: Spider Gary is ultimately killed when he's led into a patch of quicksand.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: The women start going barefoot all the time not long after crashing on the island. One of the girls gripes, "Ow, my shoe!", so they probably ditched them for comfort.

* MoodWhiplash: The girls escape the island to some easy-going music, then "THE END" abruptly appears on a black screen, accompanied by a creepy, dissonant music cue.

--> '''Tom:''' So, you want to end your movie ''that'' way, huh? Okay, get bent, we're outta here.

* TheImmodestOrgasm: The moans from the sun-stricken dancers sounds... erotic. {{Lampshaded}} and deconstructed by Mike and the 'bots.
* KillItWithFire: They somehow deduce that spider-Gary can only be destroyed with fire, so they drive him into quicksand by brandishing torches. Which means it wasn't destroyed by fire at all.

''(The) Horrors of Spider Island'' is a 1961 exploitation film.

A troupe of dancers is assembled in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity for a special performance in Singapore. Unfortunately, their plane crashes and the survivors (the troupe plus their manager Gary and his assistant Georgia) become castaways on an island. A little exploration reveals that the island used to be the home of a scientist mining for uranium, before he was killed by spiders. One night Gary gets bitten by a spider and turns into a spider-monster, stalking his former friends and killing them.

** The auditions themselves have the girls showing off their legs and getting nearly naked.

* KillItWithFire: They somehow deduce that spider-Gary can only be destroyed with fire, so they drive him into quicksand by brandishing torches.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The women start going barefoot all the time not long after crashing on the island.

%%* AsYouKnow

* AllWomenAreLustful: The ladies are stranded on an island, one of the only competent members of their group has gone missing, and the food's running out. When two average-looking men show up, you'd think the ladies would have bigger concerns than seducing them, but, well...
** The guys ''do'' bring food and supplies with them (they were resupplying the scientist who lived on the island), but [[AngstWhatAngst forgetting about their missing friends is harder to justify]].

* AsYouKnow
* BatDeduction: When the other women find the body of Linda, the stripper, they find marks on her neck that indicate she's been strangled and immediately come to the conclusion that "the spider" had done it. Despite the fact that spiders ''poison'' their prey, not ''strangle'' them.
** The spider did try to strangle Gary, but they had no way of knowing that the spider is a strangling spider.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A man bitten by a radioactive spider turns into some sort of..."spider-man?"
** Actually predates SpiderMan by a few years. Maybe Creator/StanLee saw this movie and was inspired?

* {{Fanservice}}: There's lots of scantily clad women in this movie. However, in the bathing scene, they wear light-colored body stockings. So they're nude, but they're not!

* LadykillerInLove: The movie appears to be trying to pull this off with Bob and Gladys, but the clumsy execution only succeeds in making Bob look like an indecisive JerkAss.

* MonsterMisogyny: Kind of hard to avoid when the only two other guys come to the island in the last third of the film - and Gary is the first victim.
** The Professor is the first victim in an offscreen death.
*** Which means 3 of the 4 men on the island end up getting killed...

--> '''Tom''': So, you want to end your movie ''that'' way, huh? Okay, get bent, we're outta here.
* NoExceptYes: "There's absolutely no reason yet to fear the worst. Until now, we only know that the plane caught fire and we've lost radio contact."

* QuicksandSucks

** One of the dancers then [[IdiotBall asks if you can eat uranium]].

'''''(The) Horrors of Spider Island''''' is a 1961 exploitation film.

* AllMenAreLustful: The moment they hit the island, Gary starts hitting on everyone. He blames the heat. Sure, Gary. Meanwhile, after Gary's gone, the Professor's assistants arrive - one of them decides to try to fuck every girl on the island, including ''his best friend's new love interest''.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: At the plane crash. Though the title is about the Horrors of Spider Island, the first 10-15 minutes are nothing like a horror movie plot at all.

** Actually predates SpiderMan by a few years. Maybe StanLee saw this movie and was inspired?

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Fire?]]: The only thing Spider!Gary shows any fear towards is fire. The second a torch is lit, he flees in terror.

** To be fair, how many dowdy ballerinas would ''you'' hire as erotic dancers? Joe even tells her that there are other jobs he has in mind for her.

* HeManWomanHater: Overt, condescending and smug about it.

* ImmodestOrgasm: The moans from the sun-stricken dancers sounds... erotic. {{Lampshaded}} and deconstructed by Mike and the 'bots.

* {{Misogyny}}: Overt, condescending and smug about it.

** One of the dancers then [[IdiotBall asks if you can eat uranium.]]