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Earth vs. the Spider (1958) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

...the film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by a giant spider.

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The film's original on-screen title was Earth vs. the Spider, but when The Fly (also released in 1958) became a blockbuster, the title was shortened to just The Spider on all of the advertising material. The original screen title, however, was never changed, so the film is frequently referred to by the title Earth vs. the Spider.

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Critical response for Earth vs. the Spider has been mixed. Bruce Eder from AllMovie gave the film a positive review, calling it "the most consistently entertaining, if not the best of Bert I. Gordon's various size-oriented fantasy-sci-fi films". However, Eder said that the film's special effects were dated.[6] Writing in DVD Talk, critic Glenn Erickson reported that although the film "[o]ccasionally [...] seems to exist in a different dimension," it "works better than most Bert I. Gordon pix because we basically like the teenaged heroes, even though they're so badly directed that it's hard to believe anything they do," further adding that the film's "non-sequiturs are sheer joy for creature feature fans."[7] Critic Gary Tooze described the film as "weak, even by the genre's low standards, but its does have appeal with its one dimensional characters and limited plot points."[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Spider

Earth vs. the Spider (1958) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

Just start watching that movie this Sunday, July 5 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

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