History Film / KingdomOfTheSpiders

* 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 poisonous, 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.

* InfantImmortality: Averted.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Sheriff Gene Smith is a major character for most of the film and the film follows what he does during the spiders attack for a bit, until he vanishes and is heavily implied to have been killed.

* HopeSpot: It initially seems possible Sheriff Gene Smith made it out and was able to warn the outside world, but the radio broadcast at the end makes it clear he’s likely dead.

* IUsedToBeQuiteALooker: Sheriff Gene Smith, according to his wife.

A 1977 horror film starring Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/WoodyStrode, in which hordes of tarantulas begin swarming and attacking the residents of a small Arizona town after their natural food supplies give out. Perhaps most remembered today for the gruesome spider-victim FX, and the bizarre but not-exactly-a-twist ending. Shatner is also notable for one of those rare times when he actually makes an effort in the acting department, playing a flawed and even somewhat multifaceted character.

* KillItWithFire: Attempted with the spider hill on Colby's land. Not only were there more hills elsewhere, the spiders in that hill simply escaped out a back door.

* LoveTriangle:
** Rack, Terry and Diane.

A 1977 horror film starring Creator/WilliamShatner, in which hordes of tarantulas begin swarming and attacking the residents of a small Arizona town after their natural food supplies give out. Perhaps most remembered today for the gruesome spider-victim FX, and the bizarre but not-exactly-a-twist ending. Shatner is also notable for one of those rare times when he actually makes an effort in the acting department, playing a flawed and even somewhat multifaceted character.

* LoveTriangle: Rack, Terry and Diane.

* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Colby seems convinced his herd will be quarantined and purged whenever anything happens to any of his animals. He keeps accusing everyone in authority of planning this even after it's made clear it isn't a disease, and even before then nobody can figure why he thinks they want to.

* TheVietnamWar: Robert's brother died there.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The last shot of the movie depicts [[spoiler:the whole town covered in cobweb]]. Pretty scary, huh? Well, maybe... if it weren't for the painfully obvious fact that it's just a painting.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Most of the music was borrowed from old ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episodes, mainly the work of a young JerryGoldsmith.

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* InfantImmortality: Played straight and averted.

* SpiderSwarm: The entire premise of the film is the fact that [[GreenAesop the use of DDT]] has caused spiders to do this and swarm a town.

A 1977 horror film starring Creator/WilliamShatner, in which hordes of tarantulas begin swarming and attacking the residents of a small Arizona town after their natural food supplies give out. Perhaps most remembered today for the gruesome spider-victim FX, and the [[spoiler:bizarre but not-exactly-a-twist]] ending. Shatner is also notable for one of those rare times when he actually makes an effort in the acting department, playing a flawed and even somewhat multifaceted character.

* [[spoiler:RocksFallEverybodyDies: The last scene shows the entire town engulfed in spider webs, implying the surviving characters won't last the day.]]
** [[spoiler:On the other hand, no spiders are visible, so if they get through the web (which shouldn't be that hard), the survivors should be able to get to a car.]]