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* ImpendingDoomPOV: Tarantula-vision is depicted a couple of times as they creep up on the victim of the moment.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Strongly averted. The film uses real tarantulas, and there are several scenes of them being run over by cars, squashed, and who knows what else occurred during production. While it's to be expected that a film with only a million-dollar budget would basically have to subsist on real spiders in order to avoid the inevitable SpecialEffectsFailure that would come with attempting to mass produce fake ones, it still garners quite a bit of criticism from animal rights activists.
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* GreenAesop: '''DON'T USE DDT!''' (The US DDT ban did happen in 1972, so it shows the Mayor is either stupid or corrupt or both.)
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* GreenAesop: '''DON'T USE DDT!''' (The US DDT ban did happen in 1972, so it shows the Mayor is either stupid or corrupt stupid, corrupt, or both.)
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** Tarantulas do not spin webs, for one. Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and large mammals.
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusual behavior in real life. Tarantulas are solitary animals more likely to cannibalize each other than share a den, much less live or attack in swarms.
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusual behavior in real life. Tarantulas are solitary animals more likely to cannibalize each other than share a den, much less live or attack in swarms.
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** Tarantulas do not spin webs, for one.
** Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and largemammals.
mammals. At worst, a severe allergic reaction is possible, if not common.
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusualbehavior in real life. Tarantulas are solitary animals more likely to cannibalize each other than share a den, much less live or attack in swarms.
** Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and large
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusual
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin? Tarantulas do not spin webs, for one. Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and large mammals.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin? begin?
** Tarantulas do not spin webs, for one. Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and largemammals.mammals.
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusual behavior in real life. Tarantulas are solitary animals more likely to cannibalize each other than share a den, much less live or attack in swarms.
** Tarantulas do not spin webs, for one. Even in large numbers, the venom of a tarantula is extremely mild to humans and large
** The movie [[LampshadeHanging does acknowledge]] that the "spider hill" would be extremely unusual behavior in real life. Tarantulas are solitary animals more likely to cannibalize each other than share a den, much less live or attack in swarms.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Strongly averted. The film uses real tarantulas, and there are several scenes of them being run over by cars, squashed, and who knows what else occurred during production. While it's to be expected that a film with only a million-dollar budget would basically have to subsist on real spiders in order to avoid the inevitable SpecialEffectsFailure that would come with attempting to mass produce fake ones, it still garners quite a bit of criticism from animal rights activists.
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* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Both the spiders' aggressiveness and sudden boost in venom potency is blamed on the reaction to their food supply being cut off by human encroachment on their habitat. Somehow the lack of food made the spiders (only the tarantulas, mind you) more venomous, more aggressive and more numerous. Oh, and tarantulas don't use webs to catch food. They hunt. And, in the case of lack of food, would sooner turn on each other than try and tackle something even the size of a dog, let alone humans or livestock.
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* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Both the spiders' aggressiveness and sudden boost in venom potency is blamed on the reaction to their food supply being cut off by human encroachment on their habitat. Somehow the lack of food made the spiders (only the tarantulas, mind you) more venomous, more aggressive and more numerous. Oh, and tarantulas don't use webs to catch food. They hunt. And, in the case of lack of food, would sooner turn on each other than try and tackle something even the size of a dog, let alone humans or livestock.livestock (though this is addressed in-universe and explained away as them somehow growing smart enough to decide to attack larger food sources).
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Terry calls Rack John accidentally, which Rack doesn't take kindly as it's the name of his deceased brother.
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* ApocalypseHow: Implied at the end.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Poor Colby.
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%% * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Poor Colby.
%% * DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Terry. [[spoiler: Though the end suggests the surviving couple doesn't last much longer.]]
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* EmpathyDollShot: Used when Terry dies.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Sheriff Gene Smith, according to his wife.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Sheriff Gene Smith, according to Smith's wife describes him as being quite handsome in his wife.younger days.
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* LargeHam: Shatner, of course.
* LoveTriangle: Rack, Terry and Diane.
** DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Terry. [[spoiler: Though the end suggests the surviving couple doesn't last much longer.]]
* LoveTriangle: Rack, Terry and Diane.
** DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Terry. [[spoiler: Though the end suggests the surviving couple doesn't last much longer.]]
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%% * LargeHam: Shatner, of course.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rack, Terry andDiane.
** DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Terry. [[spoiler: Though the end suggests the surviving couple doesn't last much longer.]]Diane.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rack, Terry and
** DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Terry. [[spoiler: Though the end suggests the surviving couple doesn't last much longer.]]
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* MomentKiller: An early moment between Rack and Terry is snuffed when [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Terry calls him "John"]] (the name of Rack's dead brother).
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Again, Rack doesn't like being called John.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. ''So'' many tarantulas died in the making of this film. In the AttackOfTheTownFestival scene, for instance, a car is driven through a bunch of live tarantulas, and a few can be seen getting crushed under the wheels, not to mention the scene where Rack saves Linda from a bunch of tarantulas on her bed, and then flips the bedspread, ''throwing the live spiders across the room.''
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Again, Rack doesn't like being called John.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. ''So'' many tarantulas died in the making of this film. In the AttackOfTheTownFestival scene, for instance, a car is driven through a bunch of live tarantulas, and a few can be seen getting crushed under the wheels, not to mention the scene where Rack saves Linda from a bunch of tarantulas on her bed, and then flips the bedspread, ''throwing the live spiders across the room.''
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* MomentKiller: An early moment between Rack and Terry is snuffed when [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Terry calls him "John"]] "John" (the name of Rack's dead brother).
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Again, Rack doesn't like being called John.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. ''So'' many tarantulas died in the making of this film. In the AttackOfTheTownFestival scene, for instance, a car is driven through a bunch of live tarantulas, and a few can be seen getting crushed under the wheels, not to mention the scene where Rack saves Linda from a bunch of tarantulas on her bed, and then flips the bedspread, ''throwing the live spiders across the room.''brother).
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Again, Rack doesn't like being called John.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. ''So'' many tarantulas died in the making of this film. In the AttackOfTheTownFestival scene, for instance, a car is driven through a bunch of live tarantulas, and a few can be seen getting crushed under the wheels, not to mention the scene where Rack saves Linda from a bunch of tarantulas on her bed, and then flips the bedspread, ''throwing the live spiders across the room.''
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* ScreamingWoman: Averted; ''Shatner'' does more screaming than leading lady Tiffany Bolling.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The cropduster pilot does this.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The cropduster pilot does this.
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* StalkingIsLove: Apparently Rack's philosophy.
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%% * StalkingIsLove: Apparently Rack's philosophy.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: [[spoiler:The last scene shows the entire town engulfed in spider webs, implying the surviving characters won't last the day.]]
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The last scene shows the entire town engulfed in spider webs, implying the surviving characters won't last the day.]]
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* HotScientist: Diane.
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* PantyShot: For some very creepy reason, a lot of them involving a little kid.
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* HotScientist: Diane
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* HotScientist: DianeDiane.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: Most of the music was borrowed from old ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episodes, mainly the work of a young Music/JerryGoldsmith.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: Most of the music was borrowed from old ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episodes, mainly the work of a young Music/JerryGoldsmith.
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Now available as a Podcast/RiffTrax video on demand download.
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Now available as a Podcast/RiffTrax video on demand download.
download. Watch the DVD trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZa5GWiLje4 here]].
