Kingdom of the Spiders

You could be the next victim!

A 1977 horror film starring William Shatner, 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, this being one of those rare times when he actually makes an effort in the acting department, playing a flawed and even somewhat multifaceted character.

Tropes used in Kingdom of the Spiders include:

• Attack of the Killer Whatever
• Attack of the Town Festival
• Big OMG
• Black Dude Dies First: Poor Colby.
• Cobweb Jungle
• Cue the Sun
• Dangerous Windows
• Empathy Doll Shot: Used when Terry dies.
• Hot Scientist
• Impending Doom POV
• Infant Immortality: Played straight and averted.
• It's Quiet... Too Quiet
• Jump Scare
• Kill It with Fire
• Love Triangle
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse
• Psycho Strings: Used on the Peek-a-Boo Corpse scenes.
• Recycled Soundtrack: Most of the music was borrowed from old The Twilight Zone episodes, mainly the work of a young Jerry Goldsmith.
• Screaming Woman: Averted; Shatner does more screaming than lead Tiffany Bolling.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: The cropduster pilot.
• Too Dumb to Live: Birch is armed and there's a spider on her hand. She then shoots the spider and her hand.
  • When the main characters board themselves inside a house it is clearly established that spiders are everywhere. So naturally everyone checks out what's wrong with the air conditioning when it starts malfunctioning.
• The Vietnam War: Robert's brother died there.