The Spider Shorts
Description: The Spider (a.k.a. Earth vs. the Spider) is an independent 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film. The film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by a giant spider whose origin is never explained. The Spider was released by American International as a double feature in different film markets with either The Brain Eaters or The Screaming Skull. The story starts with a man not making it home one night, so his daughter and her boyfriend go out searching and encounter a giant spider in a cave near the man's wrecked car. Coming back with the Sheriff, the spider is seemingly killed by DDT, and the body is hauled for storage in the high school gymnasium. However, a loud dose of rock music by a teenage gararage band.
