PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three horror scores is the most befitting, sounding perfectly synced with the story-at-hand instead of what are his signature arcade-in-purgatory sound effects (preceded only by Les Baxter's more jarring than sinister FROGS music): that seem otherwise randomly layered throughout...<br><br>Beginning with an actual organ in-place of the strange Moog noises, the ongoing thematic melody is a hybrid of children's lullaby and funeral dirge... the latter befitting a troubled, lonely but insanely gorgeous girl named Susan: shown at three different ages, the daughter of a manor-dwelling mortician...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, creature, ernesto macias, horror, phillan bishop, revenge, rural, seventies, spiders, thriller

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three ho...

NEDA ARNERIC SPREADS 'VENOM' IN 'THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzanOkC1P0rZLkGQFEj_9vZPfK1AxtHmiQ0rL5_aAnr7zYtgC_hLnXLK9CZptSOGpRPMNAakzdd5iHtbJLOIzyZbth7sUqz9qHCYEtatKwmaYrdb7AxX_zkVMgFsK2sm4Dg0BER4R-U86rv8OshWcybp-MiK0r6p-RlbKHnq04AdE7onjTZWlrOLPFriI/s1042/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzanOkC1P0rZLkGQFEj_9vZPfK1AxtHmiQ0rL5_aAnr7zYtgC_hLnXLK9CZptSOGpRPMNAakzdd5iHtbJLOIzyZbth7sUqz9qHCYEtatKwmaYrdb7AxX_zkVMgFsK2sm4Dg0BER4R-U86rv8OshWcybp-MiK0r6p-RlbKHnq04AdE7onjTZWlrOLPFriI/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST, British director Peter Sykes landed a job for legendary British horror production Hammer for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/BEAT-hammer-GIRL.html">DEMONS OF THE MIND</a>, with more money, bigger names and continuing the psychological-horror sub-genre, only VENOM is a lot more affective... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly set in a tree-shrouded, shade-soaked, shadow-splintered forest where lovely Neda Arneric (a combination of Sarah Miles and Mia Farrow) plays Anna, a nature-traipsing wild girl with an enigmatic spider tattoo on her shoulder, following bland/handsome journalist Simon Brent around until he winds up, seemingly safe in a local tavern where, once back in the forest, he has more problems connected to a gang of muscularly rural locals liken to the 60's British thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/05/shuttered.html">THE SHUTTERED ROOM</a>, only these guys are no (and there really needed someone intriguing like an) Oliver Reed...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, cult, horror, neda arneric, peter sykes, rural, seventies, sheila allen, simon brent, spiders

NEDA ARNERIC SPREADS 'VENOM' IN 'THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST'

Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: *** After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPID...

DEBORAH WINTERS IN 'TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Fdlvc8_E5eCOHFR2xz4q1km4xdCkEvjJ18XDlsaT78wJImqOAmj0RDbuEFqJVpJPvwSTkpWB9YnckeJSYFqI08Djh6Ol911P3hgGsn7KQzbMEXm6Qd7MiX9LkKxzptQASS-QDR44nUnEgU3ucxKlBqXnZFNs4yR6uqbyVHonx1YuYDZdrpvKzQR8fQ/s1041/81OSWD3f3PL._SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1041" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Fdlvc8_E5eCOHFR2xz4q1km4xdCkEvjJ18XDlsaT78wJImqOAmj0RDbuEFqJVpJPvwSTkpWB9YnckeJSYFqI08Djh6Ol911P3hgGsn7KQzbMEXm6Qd7MiX9LkKxzptQASS-QDR44nUnEgU3ucxKlBqXnZFNs4yR6uqbyVHonx1YuYDZdrpvKzQR8fQ/s16000/81OSWD3f3PL._SL1500_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The JAWS craze went beyond hungry fish as the TV-Movie TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO winds up with a town torn between business and people's safety, with cranky Bert Remsen in the Murray Hamilton mayoral position, running an orange mill where the furry-legged-critters wind up...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's after what seems like two separate short films, especially the intro where grungy maverick pilot/smugglers Howard Hessmann and Tom Atkins sneak coffee beans away from the local crooked government, and they wind up as <i>Janet Leigh from PSYCHO</i> characters in that they <i>only seem</i> permanent...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert remsen, charles frank, charles siebert, creature, deborah winters, ensemble, howard hesseman, matthew labyorteaux, pat hingle, penelope windust, seventies, spiders, tom atkins

DEBORAH WINTERS IN 'TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO'

Title: TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 The JAWS craze went beyond hungry fish as the TV-Movie TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY ...

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS A SPIDER JAWS 'ARACHNOPHOBIA'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZfJ4yLnO_QGGXO1TI2SmLsQhlv__6mvdqMxmWrDPnoFFS9ABl9hf74HMYjT1B-ivI61gqdZSBRwMrNi96B2uQVjbEKH6_N7xCNEIkce1vws0Zq-1X2-77WbLx1gK9O5Fj3vWzydzbtkk/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-10-24+at+1.28.30+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="1277" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaZfJ4yLnO_QGGXO1TI2SmLsQhlv__6mvdqMxmWrDPnoFFS9ABl9hf74HMYjT1B-ivI61gqdZSBRwMrNi96B2uQVjbEKH6_N7xCNEIkce1vws0Zq-1X2-77WbLx1gK9O5Fj3vWzydzbtkk/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-10-24+at+1.28.30+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>What a doll this spider is in ARACHNOPHOBIA Year: 1990</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Director Frank Marshall, a Steven Spielberg protégé, teams up with his mentor for this spider version of JAWS. But the first ten minutes provides a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (that Marshall co-produced) déjà vu as renowned arachnid expert Julian Sands ventures into South America to discover a new form of creepy-crawlers...<br> <br> Along for the ride is whiny and reluctant photographer Mark L. Taylor, who’s so nervous and timid you know he’ll buy the farm. Not only that but one of the formidable spiders, that can paralyze and kill victims in one bite, hitches his coffin ride to a small town back in America, where Jeff Daniels and family have just moved in: Daniels a big city doctor with a fear of spiders (like Roy Schieder’s Chief Brody hated the water), and since the local doctor won’t retire, Daniels has only a few patients. And everyone he diagnoses, dies – a mystery to everyone but the audience, and providing a Noir like Wrong Man vibe, at least for a little while, and these are probably the film's best sequences, providing an infectious mystery vibe for the characters that the audience is in on. <br>

action, cori wellins, creature, frank marshall, harley jane kozak, horror, jeff daniels, john goodman, julian sands, nineties, peter jason, roy brocksmith, spiders, steven spielberg, stuart pankin, thriller

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS A SPIDER JAWS 'ARACHNOPHOBIA'

What a doll this spider is in ARACHNOPHOBIA Year: 1990 Director Frank Marshall, a Steven Spielberg protégé, teams up with his mentor fo...

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNACyPV-S6VrOnFItwoyMD4v4-fyITcoRZHrf2ZHgr94bY4aVsfnLMPqcrQKacTWAajHoHF5SHClmkoF1c6DAW8FbtR3Se8ecHDyFrNww0WxCKWN0pf-_hRYuq4O3J0OlWIdpkctxQ8-Q/s1600/222222.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNACyPV-S6VrOnFItwoyMD4v4-fyITcoRZHrf2ZHgr94bY4aVsfnLMPqcrQKacTWAajHoHF5SHClmkoF1c6DAW8FbtR3Se8ecHDyFrNww0WxCKWN0pf-_hRYuq4O3J0OlWIdpkctxQ8-Q/s400/222222.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>TARANTULA</u>: The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insects or critters to make them seen giant, menacing and formidable only works since they're something we humans can easily otherwise hunt, shoot or step on – and now it's their turn to turn <i>us</i> into roadkill, or dinner...<br> <br> But, using the enlarging-of-nature device for a contrived short-cut, producer William Alland's THE LAND UNKNOWN had footage of Gila Monsters to seem like dinosaurs, which didn't work since turning something naturally (relatively) small into what's supposed to be gigantic is just plain cheap – a possible one of several reasons his most capable and talented stock director, Jack Arnold, backed out of the project. But a year earlier, not only did Arnold direct TARANTULA, one of the best 1950's b-movie creature features, it's derived from a story he himself co-created...<br>

clint eastwood, creature, fifties, hugh beaumont, jack arnold, john agar, leo g. carroll, mara corday, nestor paiva, science-fiction, spiders, william alland

AGAR & ALLAND DOUBLE FEATURES 'TARANTULA' & 'MOLE PEOPLE'

The man who shoots the TARANTULA is pictured below YEAR: 1955 TARANTULA : The now obsolete special-effects method of superimposing insec...