History YMMV / EarthVsTheSpider

* SpecialEffectFailure: The film has very obvious compositing issues. First off, it is evident that the spider was filmed on a miniature set which is typical for a Bert I. Gordon feature.

* SoBadItsGood: In the eyes of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 some people]], anyway.

** Well, the band's leader ''did'' ask for the music [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor loud enough "to wake the dead"]]...

* OlderThanTheyThink: Decades later, and this movie's genre is still the butt of jokes for how silly and contrived they were. Despite being from the most famous decade of the genre, however, it already addressed many of those issues and sometimes comes across like a modern Reconstruction. The plot-triggering death in the ColdOpen is actually treated as tragic and affects the rest of the movie, the CassandraTruth lasts for barely a few minutes, even the unreasonable authority figure does his job and isn't stupid enough to [[ArbitrarySkepticism deny the obvious]], the monster is ''not'' arbitrarily ImmuneToBullets, simply hard to damage that way due to its biology (and it is damaged throughout the movie by mundane sources), there is acknowledgement that the monster must have an origin, but it doesn't commit to anything that ScienceMarchesOn from, and the teens returning to the monster's lair aren't reckless or stupid due to having every reason to believe that it's dead (and elsewhere) when they do so. Regardless, it still hits the major beats of the genre, proving that idiocy or using HollywoodScience are not {{Necessary Weasel}}s after all, long before it was popular to even point out those problems with the genre.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Decades later, and this movie's genre is still the butt of jokes for how silly and contrived they were. Despite being from the most famous decade of the genre, however, it already addressed many of those issues and sometimes comes across like a modern Reconstruction. The plot-triggering death in the ColdOpen is actually treated as tragic and affects the rest of the movie, the CassandraTruth lasts for barely a few minutes, even the unreasonable authority figure does his job and isn't stupid enough to [[ArbitrarySkepticism deny the obvious]], the monster is ''not'' arbitrarily ImmuneToBullets, simply hard to damage that way due to its biology (and it is damaged throughout the movie by mundane sources), there is acknowledgement that the monster must have an origin, but it doesn't commit to anything that ScienceMarchesOn from, and the teens returning to the monster's lair aren't reckless or stupid due to having every reason to believe that it's dead (and elsewhere) when they do so. Regardless, it still hits the major beats of the genre, proving that being an IdiotPlot or using HollywoodScience are not [[NecessaryWeasel Necessary Weasels]] after all, long before it was popular to even point out those problems with the genre.

* CriticalResearchFailure: The spider expert repeatedly refers to it as an insect.
* NarmCharm: It opened to good reviews and high praise for its effects. Even today the effects hold up rather well compared to many other low-budget films.[[note]]An even ''later'' [[Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion giant spider movie]] also featured on ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E10TheGiantSpiderInvasion MST3K]]'' doesn't hold up nearly as well with its ridiculous pipe cleaner-looking monster.[[/note]] See the NightmareFuel page for some of the firsts it achieved in film too.

* NarmCharm: It opened to good reviews and high praise for its effects. Even today the effects hold up rather well compared to many other low-budget films.[[note]]An even ''later'' [[Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion giant spider movie]] also featured on ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E10TheGiantSpiderInvasion MST3K]]'' doesn't hold up nearly as well with its ridiculous pipe cleaner-looking monster.[[/note]] See the NightmareFuel page for some of the firsts it achieved in film too.

* FairForItsDay: It opened to good reviews and high praise for its effects. Even today the effects hold up rather well compared to many other low-budget films.[[note]]An even ''later'' [[Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion giant spider movie]] also featured on ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E10TheGiantSpiderInvasion MST3K]]'' doesn't hold up nearly as well with its ridiculous pipe cleaner-looking monster.[[/note]] See the NightmareFuel page for some of the firsts it achieved in film too.

* FairForItsDay: It opened to good reviews and high praise for its effects. See the NightmareFuel page for some of the firsts it achieved in film too.

** Well, the band's leader ''did'' asked for the music [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor loud enough "to wake the dead"]]...

* SoBadItsGood: In the eyes of [[{{MST3K}} some people]], anyway.

* NightmareFuel:
** The scene where a toddler is the sole survivor of the spider's attack. Rather chilling.
** The opening bit, where the dad is probably getting sliced up by the web, is also pretty effective.
** Not to mention the father's corpse when they do find it.

** The opening bit, where the dad is probably getting sliced up by the web, is also pretty effective.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Tom Servo's rendition of "[[{{EarthVsTheSpider}} The Spider March]]".
---> '''Tom:''' "SPIIIIDER! SPIIIIIDER! SPIIIIDER! SPIIIIDER!"
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The only effective scene is the one where a toddler is the sole survivor of the spider's attack. Rather chilling.

* Tom Servo's rendition of "[[{{EarthVsTheSpider}} The Spider March]]" always makes this troper laugh.