| 1 | * 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. See the NightmareFuel page for some of the firsts it achieved in film too. |
| 2 | * {{Narm}}: That unspeakably goofy scene where the local kids decide to have a sock hop in the same gymnasium as ''[[TooDumbToLive a giant man-eating spider]]'' and discover that hard way that ThePowerOfRock isn't always a good thing. |
| 3 | * 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 AcceptableBreaksFromReality after all, long before it was popular to even point out those problems with the genre. |
| 4 | * SoBadItsGood: In the eyes of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 some people]], anyway. |
| 5 | * SpecialEffectFailure: |
| 6 | ** The film has very obvious compositing issues. To address the elephant in the room, the spider was clearly filmed on a miniature set which is typical for a Bert I. Gordon feature. And as such for a Bert I. Gordon feature, it ends up walking on the photographs representing the background. |
| 7 | ** Even the spider is not the only one affected by bad compositing. In the cave scenes, it is clear that the actors are on a set with photographs of stalagmites being clumsily inserted over the scene. When scenes with the spider are involved, you can see where the photographs cut off when paired with footage from the set. This issue even extends to scenes filmed in the town. One blatant instance involves the attack on Mr. Kingman and the sheriff, where a clumsily inserted tree is put in to hide the composition between the set and the spider. |
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