Why is Tom Atkins billed as the star of this movie when he's one of the first to die in it?
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, along with The Savage Bees, were notorious TV movies back in the 80's for the 8:30p.m. Slot. (I think they played them every year without fail?)
Movie starts out in Mexico as three dudes bag some goodies, and creepy crawlies, into heshen sacks as some Rocky 3 training music plays. They only shovel a handful of spiders but by movies end there's 100's of them.
Dr. Challis, and Jake The Snake, are our transportation mules importing this goods via some BIG Turkey plane. After bribing corrupt officials, with American Peso's, they smuggle three stowaways on board and one of them looks like the hitchhiker from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not really.
Can I sign a statutory declaration for a minute, please? Um, hello, tarantulas are not deadly or venomous, okay?
Is this where they got their idea for Snakes on a Plane from?
That hole "cut the wound, slurp the blood out" technique DOES NOT work and it doesn't take this long to fly from Mexico to San Francisco.
I forget if this movie has a memorable scene in it like The Savage Bees with that little Volkswagen covered in frozen bees entering a ball park stadium.
Dr. Challis, and a Gibb brother, have trouble landing the BIG Turkey UFO when suddenly, to add misery to woe, Dr. Challis is devoured by tarantulas and they crash, with vultures circling nearby.
Is that Kevin Arnold's father, Jack?
Not the Wally World family truckster again! How many movies was that vehicle in?
Plane crashes out in the middle of nowhere. Tarantulas move at a snail's pace. So how are they going to commute to the nearest town?
The town's folk gather to aid the fallen spacecraft and Evil Canival comes along, uninvited, and gatecrashes a tank of diesel setting off a chain of events including setting the deadly cargo free. The plane explodes but the spiders don't go up with it for some reason?
Seizing other's misfortunes, a thieving farmer helps himself to a bag of Halloween candy and is bitten in return.
The lead singer from Abba is having a picnic by herself, just waiting to be a Zodiac victim, when also bitten. (That stunt double fare whacked her head on that tree stump.) A school kid plays racquetball with a tarantula, literally, much to the chagrin of her teacher, who looks like George McFly. Guy with a hairy carpet chest denies murdering Abba singer. Spiders continue to roam the countryside in search of a lift to nowhere.
BANANA SPIDERS? Banana Spiders nothing! Then why is it not called Banana Spiders: The Deadly Cargo? They're tarantulas, not Banana Spiders!
The town in this movie looks like where they filmed Dark Night of the Scarecrow.
Their solution to beat the tarantulas is to hold a rock concert fronted by wasps. So they conduct a seance inside a railroad fruit factory hoping to induce mass murder by orange juice; tongs, alcohol, and wasp opera cassette loops. Why go to this extreme? Just use some bugspray.
The guy with the hairy chest falls on a powerline and compromises the whole wasp rock concert cutting the power off.
The ending's a bit of a letdown with not much of a climax.
There weren't that many kills but considering it's a TV movie I guess it was passable.... back in the 80's.
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, along with The Savage Bees, were notorious TV movies back in the 80's for the 8:30p.m. Slot. (I think they played them every year without fail?)
Movie starts out in Mexico as three dudes bag some goodies, and creepy crawlies, into heshen sacks as some Rocky 3 training music plays. They only shovel a handful of spiders but by movies end there's 100's of them.
Dr. Challis, and Jake The Snake, are our transportation mules importing this goods via some BIG Turkey plane. After bribing corrupt officials, with American Peso's, they smuggle three stowaways on board and one of them looks like the hitchhiker from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not really.
Can I sign a statutory declaration for a minute, please? Um, hello, tarantulas are not deadly or venomous, okay?
Is this where they got their idea for Snakes on a Plane from?
That hole "cut the wound, slurp the blood out" technique DOES NOT work and it doesn't take this long to fly from Mexico to San Francisco.
I forget if this movie has a memorable scene in it like The Savage Bees with that little Volkswagen covered in frozen bees entering a ball park stadium.
Dr. Challis, and a Gibb brother, have trouble landing the BIG Turkey UFO when suddenly, to add misery to woe, Dr. Challis is devoured by tarantulas and they crash, with vultures circling nearby.
Is that Kevin Arnold's father, Jack?
Not the Wally World family truckster again! How many movies was that vehicle in?
Plane crashes out in the middle of nowhere. Tarantulas move at a snail's pace. So how are they going to commute to the nearest town?
The town's folk gather to aid the fallen spacecraft and Evil Canival comes along, uninvited, and gatecrashes a tank of diesel setting off a chain of events including setting the deadly cargo free. The plane explodes but the spiders don't go up with it for some reason?
Seizing other's misfortunes, a thieving farmer helps himself to a bag of Halloween candy and is bitten in return.
The lead singer from Abba is having a picnic by herself, just waiting to be a Zodiac victim, when also bitten. (That stunt double fare whacked her head on that tree stump.) A school kid plays racquetball with a tarantula, literally, much to the chagrin of her teacher, who looks like George McFly. Guy with a hairy carpet chest denies murdering Abba singer. Spiders continue to roam the countryside in search of a lift to nowhere.
BANANA SPIDERS? Banana Spiders nothing! Then why is it not called Banana Spiders: The Deadly Cargo? They're tarantulas, not Banana Spiders!
The town in this movie looks like where they filmed Dark Night of the Scarecrow.
Their solution to beat the tarantulas is to hold a rock concert fronted by wasps. So they conduct a seance inside a railroad fruit factory hoping to induce mass murder by orange juice; tongs, alcohol, and wasp opera cassette loops. Why go to this extreme? Just use some bugspray.
The guy with the hairy chest falls on a powerline and compromises the whole wasp rock concert cutting the power off.
The ending's a bit of a letdown with not much of a climax.
There weren't that many kills but considering it's a TV movie I guess it was passable.... back in the 80's.