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* WeirdScience

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* WeirdScienceWeirdScience: In the vein of the pulp novels that clearly inspired it; a MadScientist decides to solve world hunger by making giant animals.
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* BMovie: One of the more notable examples of giant animals and insect films from the '50s

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* BMovie: One of the more notable examples of giant animals and insect films from the '50s'50s.

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever
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* CoversAlwaysLie: There is no scene of the tarantula holding a woman in its jaws in the film.

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever
AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The ''original'' giant spider movie, or at least the one that popularized it.
* BMovie
BMovie: One of the more notable examples of giant animals and insect films from the '50s
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There is no scene of the tarantula holding a woman in its jaws in the film.
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* KarmicDeath / HoistByHisOwnPetard: Deemer ends up killed by the same tarantula he created.

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* KarmicDeath / HoistByHisOwnPetard: KarmicDeath: Deemer ends up killed by the same tarantula he created.
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* OffModel: The exact size of Deemer’s tarantula varies from scene to scene. Most of the time, it appears to be a 100 feet tall as advertised on the posters, but in a few scenes (such as the night attack on the patrolmen), it’s only slightly larger than average at a possible height of 50 feet.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Giant animals would need to be ''fed'' before they could be ''eaten'', making their value as a solution to world hunger dubious at best.

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* {{Kaiju}}: Take a wild guess.

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* {{Kaiju}}: Take a wild guess.The tarantula.
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* HotScientist: Stephanie "Steve" Clayton.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Okay, so the MadScientist has a plan to end world hunger by creating giant animals. So he tests his new serum on rabbits, guinea pigs, and a freaking tarantula. The latter goes as well as you expect.

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* KarmicDeath: Deemer ends up killed by the same tarantula he created.

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* KarmicDeath: KarmicDeath / HoistByHisOwnPetard: Deemer ends up killed by the same tarantula he created.



* OffModel: The exact size of Deemer’s tarantula varies from scene to scene. Most of the time, it appears to be a 100 feet tall as advertised on the posters, but in a few scenes (such as the night attack on the patrolmen), it’s only slightly larger than average at a possible height of 50 feet.



* ScreamingWoman: Steve

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* ScreamingWoman: SteveSteve, but only in the scenes where the tarantula attacks the house.

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The quintessential GiantSpider movie.

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The quintessential GiantSpider movie.
movie and one of the better giant monster [[BMovie B-Movies]] from the 1950s.



The film is honestly one of the better 1950s [[BMovie B]] giant monster movies. While it could potentially have been a {{narm}}-fest characterized by a cheap stop-motion puppet, like ''Film/TheGiantClaw'', instead the special effects, though dated today, were actually pretty fair for their day.

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