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Horrors of Spider Island

December 22, 2025 0 reviews

Horrors of Spider Island

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Year: 1960

IMDb Rating: 2.7/10

Genres: Horror

Directors: Fritz Böttger

Cast: Helga Franck, Harald Maresch, Rainer Brandt, Barbara Valentin, Alexander D'Arcy

En route to a show in Singapore, a troupe of beautiful dancers are stranded on a deserted island by a plane crash. Their routine of skinny-dipping and devising new skimpy outfits is interrupted when a radioactive spider bites their manager and turns him into a wild-eyed, furry-faced monster with three fangs and a passion for strangling.

Horrors of Spider Island (German: Ein Toter hing im Netz, "A Corpse Hung in the Web") is a 1960 West German horror film written and directed by Fritz Böttger, and produced by Gaston Hakim and Wolf C. Hartwig for Rapid-Film/Intercontinental Filmgesellschaft. The film stars Alexander D'Arcy as Gary Webster, a talent agent who invites several women to a club in Singapore. Their plane ride ends abruptly when they crash-land into the ocean. Webster and the women make their way to an island where they find a large spider web. A giant spider sinks its teeth into Webster, turning him into a mutant. The film was released in Germany on April 16, 1960. It was released in the United States in March 1962, and was later released in different markets with various alternate titles including It's Hot in Paradise, Hot in Paradise, Girls of Spider Island, Horror on the Spider Island and Spider's Web. It later played in the US on a double feature with the 1960 British film The Flesh and the Fiends (which had been retitled Fiendish Ghouls in the US).

A plane crash leaves a dance troupe stranded on a deserted island where a mutant spider bite turns the troupe's leader into a monster. This movie was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 ep. 1011. You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page .

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