good back-story, and good acting

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I've only seen this in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode, but judging from the synopses that I've read, very little material of any importance was cut.An international impresario, Gary, is flying a planeload of showgirls to Singapore for an engagement (the film begins with the auditions). However, the plan crashes in the South Pacific, killing the pilot and crew. Gary and the showgirls manage to make it to a small island in a rubber raft. There, they find a deserted hut with the body of a man suspended in a giant spider web - he was apparently a scientist looking for uranium on the island. Soon after, Gary goes out for a walk and is bitten by a spider around the size of a small dog. He kills it, but its bite results in his turning into a monster. He begins to prey on the showgirls.First of all, the synopsis on IMDb is inaccurate, since there is only one spider and the one person bitten does not turn into a spider, but a sort of weird "were-spider" hybrid. However, that hardly makes a difference, because this is a terrible movie, and maybe the most sexist film I have ever seen. It's really much more of a sexploitation film than a horror film; the horror content is pretty light. The showgirls who end up on the island are portrayed as completely brainless and helpless without men around. When two men arrive in a rowboat with supplies for the dead scientist, the women are only too happy to have sex with complete strangers because they are SO hungry for men.The film is also really shoddy technically. The special effects are laughable. The big (but not giant) spider that originally bites Gary looks like a cartoon menace and the "were-spider" that Gary becomes looks a bit scary, but sure doesn't look anything like a spider. In his excellent book on 50's (and early 60's) SF films, "Keep Watching the Skies," Bill Warren reviews this under the title "Horrors of Spider Island." He gives it a negative review, but his review still didn't prepare me for how shockingly amateurish this film was. Proof that continental Europeans can make low-budget films just as badly as the Americans!

It didn't take long to realize that this movie had been completely changed from whatever it had originally been.I guess it was basically a porn and the spider stuff was just added in later?Even with all the sex cut out there's still very little about the whole spider thing.The dubbed voices are great.I suspect that the same person did every woman's voice.All the women have very distinct and very bad accents.The story is very boring.It starts with a guy auditioning a dozen dancers for a mystery trip.The auditions take forever then thirty seconds later their plane has crashed head first into the ocean at 300mph and they are all dry and on a life raft.Then the guy has sex with them all and then he becomes a spider man and just goes away.Then two more guys show up to have sex with all the women.I give it two stars because it has to be better than the original.Probably worth watching if you like bad monster movies.

Not all of the older movies were great. Indeed, the nazi party was in full swing in making propaganda movies, usually in science fiction, and didn't have to bother to be even a tiny bit subtle.Director Bottger waves his swastika as predictably as any one. With the vehicle being an airplane crash on a remote island with a giant spider, he contrives an entire story to show that brunette women must die and blonde women alone must survive. There just isn't any more to the story. It's the ultimate chick flick, with gorgeous brunettes biting the dust, but obviously the most depressing thing in the world for a straight guy. Brunettes are what guys want, and blonds are what women want guys to want.So the Hitler worshipers like Bottger had more than one target audience, but if you aren't a swastika waver, or a woman jealous of brunettes, there's just absolutely nothing else in this tripe. Absolutely nothing. And that isn't a spoiler, because it is very obvious from the start that this is going to be another nazi propaganda movie.

This movie's idea is one for a regular porno movie; which, of course, you won't get here.HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND gets a nice sexy start, with a group of hot young women who seem intent on going to Singapore—as dancers: the blonde May, Rhonda, Babs with the golden legs—beautiful women in peril—which kind of comes directly from the pulps of weird menace and foretells a genre masterpiece like SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD (yeah, the script even has the uranium searchers).Getting lost with these young dancers on an island makes one happier than the Bounty mutineers. An exciting is conventional script is though spoiled by sheer incompetence, and also a cast of cute babes is thus wasted; the whole flick is blunt, badly made, it lacks the necessary sharpness and gusto, though I kind of enjoyed it.The last third of the movie is underachieved porn.'A real man is interested in only one girl.'