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

A troupe of dancers is assembled in 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 film was a German flick, but represented an interesting midpoint in cinema between the traditional horror film and the nudie cuties that would pop up in the early-to-mid 60's that would lead to the eventual creation of the MPAA ratings.

For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E11HorrorsOfSpiderIsland episode recap page]].

!!''Horrors of Spider Island'' contains the following tropes:

* 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 forgetting about their missing friends is harder to justify.
** As Mike and the bots proved, when you're in a plane crash, you instantly become languid, helpless, and sex-starved, and you murmur a lot.
* AsYouKnow
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The women start going barefoot all the time not long after crashing on the island.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A man bitten by a radioactive spider turns into some sort of..."spider-man?"
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Joe and Anne. It starts with him saying he's glad her plane crashed (so he could meet her), and, well, if this movie were more competently written it ''would'' get worse, but the bit ends rather lamely.
* FailedASpotCheck: Plenty of easy ways to get killed by spiders by remaining unaware of surroundings.
* {{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!
** The auditions themselves have the girls showing off their legs and getting nearly naked.
* 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.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Just being ''vaguely near'' uranium deposits is enough to make spiders into giant mutants.
* ImmodestOrgasm: 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.
* LegoGenetics: They don't even bother to explain how or why radiation makes spiders mutate, or why their bites turn you into a werespider. Other than uranium deposits being nearby, and that's barely a HandWave.
* 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.
* {{Misogyny}}: Overt, condescending and smug about it.
* NoEnding: Well, sort of. There's a shot of the girls leaving the island on a boat, then the film just... stops.
* 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."
* OfficialCouple: Gary was closer to Georgia than a boss and secretary normally are until Gary got spiderized.
* OffscreenCrash: The plane crash. One moment the plane is coming down, a few ocean scenes later they're all on the raft.
* 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.
* QuicksandSucks
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Two of the dancers seem to have this going on.
* TheScourgeOfGod: Spider-Gary's first victim is the lone stripper of the group, who previously threw herself at Gary and only managed to get slapped by an angry Georgia.
* {{Sexophone}}: Heard whenever one of the dancers acts sexy, even when she's by herself.
* ShowSomeLeg: TheMovie. During the odd auditions for dancers, it's the first thing Gary asks of the first dancer. Which gets her a job. Something tells us that he's not hiring ''dancers'' to go to ''Singapore''. The one classically trained dancer ''gets turned away''.
* SmartBall: When the group finds a hammer, Gary correctly says that since it's got a long handle it's a mining hammer, probably used for mining radioactive elements like uranium.
** One of the dancers then [[IdiotBall asks if you can eat uranium.]]
* SoftWater: Because it's easy to survive a plane falling nose-first into water, uninjured.
* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Linda strips to her unmentionables during her "audition" as a "dancer".
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