Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: TARANTULA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2015
- It's 50's monster movie time again with "Tarantula" (1955), starring cult movie icon John Agar!
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"Well that was a productive day of raping the laws of nature"
If i ever get to work in a laboratory creating bioweapons and mutants - i am soooo using this line
I hear they're hiring in Wuhan.
Do you have a garage? How about your parents?
"This is why you should only make cute animals gigantic."
Four words, Bran: Night of the Lepus.
to be fair, rabbits eat their own young whenever they get stressed or feel like it like hamsters
Rabbits aren't scary, giant or not.
@@connorbrennan4233 When they're chopping up your body with those teeth, that's pretty frightening.
@@connorbrennan4233 well, the teeth are, eghhh
Nah, H.G Well's Food of the Gods 1976. 😎. I gotta say the book (1904) is beyond better. But who read's books now? .
At least it is a giant Tarantula and not a flying battleship!
I live in Arizona, all tarantulas are that sized. We just ignore them and they leave us alone.
Really? I thought Australia had some pretty big spiders
CAN WE TALK ABOUT OTHER THINGS EXCEPT SPIDERS! FOR GOD SAKE 🤬
Just moved out here to Arizona and I can confirm they are that size
lhc wresslar HOLY SHIT.
lhc wresslar in Texas and we got those to but I've been out there and yep that big.
"This is why you should only make cute animals big."
NIGHT OF THE LUPUS would like a word.
Lupus in a disease, not an animal... you're probably thinking Lepus.
I didn't know this is an Eastwood classic!
No doubt he looks back on this film with a smile.
Fun fact: in general tarantulas are quite gentle and easy to handle. They may byte only in stressful situations like being cornered and usually are "dry" bytes, they hurt a bit but don't inject venom. Even if they do inject venom, it is not very effective in humans so the chances of a tarantula harming someone is meager.
I don't think you'd want to test that theory on a 20 ft tarantula though.😅
John Agar was an Icon and this movie is iconic . And let's appreciate the lovely Mara Corday, who's in a better movie than Giant Claw.
John Agar is most known for being Shirley Temple's abusive husband who used her to get roles. Temple divorced him for mental cruelty.
She is still alive....
It’s funny you mentioned the “go ahead, make my day” line in reference to Clint Eastwood. Because Mora Corday is the waitress that pours extra sugar in Dirty Harry’s coffee in “Sudden Impact”. Same scene when he says that line!
I can't even catch my friggin' breath from laughing so hard!
"Spider splooge!" That is classic script! " Why the hell did you test the nutrient on a tarantula?" "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"
"Ah, just as I suspected. He's dead."
Death...his _one_ weakness!
Comedy Gold
" Desert Rock , Arizona"
Tarantula , 1955
" Sand rock, Arizona, "
It came from outer space , 1953
Universal's desert towns.
The prof is the boss from " The man from U.N.C.L.E."
for some reason this comment reminds me of the part in "The Hunt" . where they open the trunk to a dead body and Don goes 'Oh, Jesus' and Crystal with great timing just goes 'Nope, that's Gary' idk why..
I saw this movie on TV once. Thing I remembered most about it was the actor playing the scientist who showed the educational film being Mr Drysdale from the Beverly Hillbillies lol
First rule of this channel: watch new videos immediately, because they'll probably get absurd copyright strikes soon : \
I have the exact same problem
That one still image of Reptilicus actually looked surprisingly scary.
My father got a collection of 200 or so black and white era movies. One of them was tarantula. I was uncomfortable because giant spider, but when tarantula crawls over the mountain one of its legs is not touching ground. That effect mishap got me over most of my fear of spiders.
The Professor is played by Leo G. Carroll, best known for his role as Alexander Waverly, the boss of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on the 60s TV series.
And TOPPER the ghost comedy.
"He has a phd in Tempering With The Laws Of Nature." - classic
More credible giant spider effects in this film than any film made since. But the crown goes to The Incredible Shrinking Man (1951) for credible giant spider effects.
*Gigantic tarantula crawls up
Me: *grabs my pistol!
A scientist trying to grow bigger animals to solve the food shortage makes this seem like a prequel to Harryhausen's "giant monster" take on Jules Verne's "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND". (There WERE NO monsters in the book!)
@14:40 - Well, doggies! Just take some of that stuff over to the bank, Mr. Drysdale will know what it is!
It's been two years, maybe it's time to complete the Mara Corday monster-trifecta with "The Black Scorpion'? Just like in "The Giant Claw" and "Tarantula," lovely Mara is doin' it for herself in a man's world, but still needs a man to pick her up and dust her off when she falls (Richard Denning filling in for Agar but without Agar's smarm). The effects are more ambitious--and uneven--than "Tarantula," and far superior to "Claw. Plus this one has what the others don't: the Annoying Little Boy Who Gets Into Danger Constantly!! Juanito packs more irritation than every Japanese kaiju brat combined! Otherwise, it's boilerplate '50s monster mash, featuring elements we've seen before in everything from "Them!" to "The Deadly Mantis."
Funny you should say that.
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Thank you I haven't laughed so much in a very very long time, your narration and editing are pure gold.
"That's an isotope, isn't it"?
Somewhere, a physicist and/or chemist is facepalming.
I'm an electrician and people constantly using random voltages and reversing polarities to magically fix anything drives me crazy, it's only fair physicists share my pain
1955, Fun fact: the pilot at the end who bombs the tarantula was a young pre actor named Clint Eastwood doing an unknown pilot. Never see his face.
@@arthas640 Sorry, but that's the perfect set-up to a joke; how do you tell the difference between a chemist and an electrician? Have them pronounce "unionized".
I bought this movie as part of a horror collection, for its time the effects are pretty decent and the characters likeable enough, plus the scientist is Leo G. Carroll who played Mr Waverley in the Man From Uncle series.
One of his first big Holllywood moves was becoming Mr. Shirley Temple. Apparently it was a disaster. The studio would later give him a 6-movie deal with the divorce.
Huh, no Kumonga jokes. lol
+Preston Lockhart true
hey wheres the mouth spike raping thingy
FOOTAGE FLAGGED BY TOHO
Kumonga still needs to come back he is so underrated
@@angryboi595 Well Scylla exists
Why no. No there is nothing 1950's radiation cant do. As for the Eastwood line, I like At this point your asking yourself did he drop one napalm bomb or did he drop them all. To tell you the truth in all the excitement I kinda lost track myself. So what you have to ask yourself is do I feel lucky. Well do you Tarantula?
"You're nothin' but DOG S*** to me, and a lot can happen to dog S***. So watch where the dog S***s you!"
"You're a class act, Callahan."
The effects were by Clifford Stine, who also worked on other 50's sci-fi gems like THIS ISLAND EARTH, THE DEADLY MANTIS, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS and other movies for Universal from this period, and did additional effects work on SPARTACUS. TARANTULA, for me at least, is one of the better ones to come from this period, and it's no understatement considering it came after THEM! from the previous year.
Most hilarious review ever. I fell off my bed laughing while watching it. Splendid! I can't congratulate you enough.
There is ALWAYS a brainy woman scientist in these things, as a love interest. There's usually some dig about her not being married/being not quite a normal woman/uppity.
Even though Tarantula is one of my favorite films from the 1950's, your commentary was hilarious and accurate. It pretty much doesn't pick up until the second half. It does have some really creepy scenes that are impressive for its time. Thanks for making this video, making Tarantula even more fun to watch.
I saw this movie, and THEM, on a double bill at our local movie house, probably in 1956....10 years old, and to this day, spiders creep me out!
The sheriff (Nestor Paiva) was also in The Mole People. "Oh, we've got food, old man."
He's so good his patients never get sick or is that because he has no patients.
I remember when I first saw Nightbreed, especially the scene where that poor old man was murdered by Dr. Decker. I kept wondering where I saw him before, and then I read the end credits. John Agar. His was a brief appearance in that movie, but a good one.
Rock & Rule. You can add it to a Canada list
Can you do THEM!!!
the one with ants ._.
I totally forgot about that movie. I really enjoyed it as a kid.
I saw it at my grandparents house and loved it
+M Zilla Yeah, can't go wrong with giant ants lol
Them! was the best B movie monster flick imo.
The opening scene reminds me of the Them opening!!!👍😎
man! i remember watching all of these when i was like real young kid.the claw scared me.they all seemed scary at the time & the effects were the best you can get back then.now i laugh at them.i am 54 now.
No, I have to disagree with this one. This movie was actually really good for it's time. The way they used a real tarantula and actually made it look like it was interacting with the environment was amazing back then. I saw it when I was young and was so amazed. It looks more real still today than any of the CGI giant spiders these days. This movie is a classic and a legend.
Brandon, are you planning to review another movie featuring Sarah Douglas by any chance? There's like a gold mine of cult films with her.
Also, I recommend a HUGE Russian cult movie "NIGHT WATCH". Vampires, werewolfs, witches and a hole lotta craziness.
"rocks just move"
Maybe Agar saw what happened in the Monolith Monster invasion.
Aaahhh, Monolith Monsters...stretching the possibilities of fifties scifi!!! 👍🔬
The Tarantula gain a lot of street cred from having Clint Eastwood killing it.
Puts it right up there with The Predator being killed by Arnold.
Eastwood's second roll after Revenge Of The Creature
I thought this was his first role.
His second roll was cinnamon.
Not counting rawhide
" It came from outer space," 1953
" Tarantula ", 1955
" The monolith monsters," 1957
Universal loved the desert.
Now you need to do Syfy's "big ass spider" movie next!
He should also review Earth vs. the Spider
That movie was hilarious
Tarantula is a classic ! 100 times better than the shit they making today(Sharknado 1,2,3,4,5)
As well as anything else on the SyFy Channel.
Not better than Godzilla
Is it
I love this film, and I adore the awesome theme tune. I have my own head-lyric for it too - "Ohh My Gaaahd, Big Spii-der!"
So this is like rampage crossed with food of the gods. That's awesome.
So that's what the Professor gets up to when he's not creating secret agents who don't exist...
This is one of my new favorite monster movies. Unlike other horror movies of its time this movie holds up quite well, the humans are interesting characters, the spider is creepy but I will admit the effects look so through but the illusion still works.
I completely understand why you make fun of these 50's horror and Sci Fi movies. But I still get a little twitchy when you jab at the movies that I cut my teeth on back in the day and completely mesmerized me in the theaters on Saturday afternoons. Oh and BTW I second the request from A tree House In Hiding about doing a review of THEM on of my favs from the day. I must be a masochist. But your reviews are funny and entertaining.
I randomly got this movie on vhs a while back and thought it was pretty good. Then it got to the end and I’m like, “Is that pilot Clint Eastwood? That sounds like freaking Clint Eastwood!”
I was so disappointed as a kid that they killed the spider before it could actually go on a rampage.
Solid 50s monster movie.
I would really love to see a crossover between you Brandon and Decker Shado
That white substance was (dun dun dun) THE STUFF! And Agar ate it!
Hahahaha!! "He looks like if Herman Munster had a stroke."
I always liked that old flick. Any movie with the line "Get the sub-machine-guns" that ends with Clint dropping napalm from a jet gets two thumbs up from me.
PROUD to be the 8,000th "like" for this video!! 😁👍
ANY movie that has Clint Eastwood dive-bombing a giant spider-Kaiju, is just freakin' AWESOME!! 😂👍
These cut scenes need to be incorporated into indie games.
One of the best of that time and still one of my all time favorite 50's Sci-fi flicks. First saw it at age 10 in 1965 on WCBS-TV New York's "The Late' Late Show", some 10 years after its theatrical release.
3:29 That's the most GoodBadFlicks quote Brandon's ever said.
The desk clerk is Hank Patterson, Arnold Ziffel's pa from 'Green Acres'. He was also in Earth Vs. The Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man.
Wasn't sure if I'd be able to stomach this review (arachnophobia), but thankfully 50's special effects did a great job reducing the spider to a silhouette. Plus I had an alternate tab open. Great review as usual, Brandon!
You forgot to mention that the professor is Leo G. Carroll, Mr Waverley from " Man from U.N.C.L.E".
And....going back into the early 1950s, he played an old dude named Topper, who is haunted, in a friendly way, by a young couple (Jan and Robert Sterling, a married couple of actors, in real life), who were sort of like an older version of Ken and Barbie--Jan was beautiful!...and they even had a ghost dog with them, that loved to drink Topper's martini when being invisible!...pretty stupid stuff, but that is what passed for TV comedy back then.
@@curbozer5006 I saw an episode. It was initially a movie, I believe.
HF you were right. Clint Eastwood was in this movie. He just didn't get credited. Mind blown🤯 I saw this movie on television back in 1968 when I was only seven. Didn't know that little factoid till now.
Holy shit, dropping a Rondo Hatton reference, nice. Who actually had acromegaly, I like the cut of your jib.
I'm not scared of spiders and I know tarantulas aren't venomous but if I saw a spider the size of building that could crush me under its leg I would be running
Oh crap! Tarantulas got ahold of the growth gun!
@08:58, this is the first Adult American Actor in a monster movie that WANTS to be a Kenny
So happy to see anew video up :)
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" huh professor, I understand the rat and guinea pig, but why give the nutrient to the tarantula?" DUUUUUGH? 😦
@07:00, Let me get this straight.
She gets into his car, he drives away with her in the passenger seat.
Judging by the movie in the background, they're a good mile at least from town, in a desert. and they're NOW introducing themselves!
People were a LOT more trusting in the 50's I guess.
You're videos always make my day Thank You
I've got this on DVD, Wish I had seen it as a kid. But they had stopped playing the classic B movies as Saturday afternoon filler where I lived. Might have been able to catch it in the 90's as a late night special but my parents got ride of the cable at the start of 91.
Great work brotha!
Now we know where "The Stuff" came from--- a spider.
The Prof tested it out on a Tarantula because he couldn't find a Black Scorpion🦂
That Prof with the eyebrows ended up as Mr Waverley from UNCLE
Shouldn’t John Agar have collected a sample and analyzed it BEFORE he tasted it?
John Agar got into acting because he was married to Shirley Temple. Well, he first got cast because he was her husband.
In "Fort Apache", Agar got to bonk Shirley Temple, since at the end of the film they had a kid who was at least a year old
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The spider's growth is unabated, so in time the critter would be big enough that it wouldn't pay any attention to humans.
C'mon, no mention of Leo G. Carroll? Y'kow, "Topper"(tv), "Mr Waverly"(Man From U.N.C.L.E.), "North by Northwest", plus many OTHER film appearances!
Ah. One of my favorites movies. A true classic!
"turning into lumpy playdoh mutant, all completely normal parts of the aging process" kek this was the first vid of yours i saw, glad i finally revisited it
Enjoy your review on these 1950s sci-fy movies . Watched just about all of them growing up . By the way Yes I did read your disclaimer
i´m already subscribed soo thumbs up for Kyuss reference
14:28 That joke never gets old.
Susuan Cartwrite neither will the joke at 17:10 XD
on par with Phelous' Old Man "HEEEEE.......", especially if played in 0.75x speed
08:26 Apparently it can't turn Godzilla back into a pint-size Kaiju. 0.o
Another funny review I'd like to see you review The Thing From Another World!
"Ah oh, looks like someone's getting there brains taken out." LOL I almost fell from my chair.
Thanks for taking the time to re-upload the vid :-)
As an arachnophobic this is the one movie that can make me scream like a girl.
...what, ever hear of a wolf spider? we have those here and they can sometimes set off mouse traps
skylx08 Heh, when I was a kid my mom tried to crush one. Like 200 babies jumped off and scattered.
Arachnophobes are arachnophobic, but who will pet them when they sleep?
@@andrewt6338 Thaaaaaat`s nice..
Yeah, we have them in Texas and they're hideous. I'm not even especially scared of spider and they creep me out.
In Western Washington State, we have some wolf spiders, but the largest spider in this area is simply called the "giant European House Spider"....not native to this area, but they hitched a ride from Sweden/Norway on boats, perhaps 100 years ago...they have bodies that can get to nearly an inch long, and their legs, diagonally, can measure 3 to 4 inches tip to tip!,,,and they are the fastest moving spiders of all...nearly 2 feet per second...so you gotta move quick if you wanna swat one of these ugly creatures...but they are not aggressive, and actually cannot bite a human, as their mandibles are very tiny...still, very creepy to see one of these crawling up the wall!
You should do the blob
One thing that was never mentioned is the sound effects of the giant spider itself. That high-pitched shrieking noise. Hmmm...where have I heard that before?
Surely, it wouldn't have something to do with a 1950s Martian invasion by any chance...right? *RIGHT?!*
I feel like the score for this could be one of those videos like 'I need a theme for this movie but it's just a B-movie about a giant tarantula, so don't go nuts!' *cut to intense orchestra*
The first guy in the desert looked like Jerry Stiller, seriously!!
Thanks Brandon one of my favorite old movies. I to live in the dessert. Filled with these types of creepy crawlies. This movie was actually scary and something about these creatures makes it even more.
This should be called the origin of kumonga
The female tarantula in her smaller form probably mated with males and made eggsacks and the multiple giant spiders in Monster Island, Infant Island, and even some parts of the islands in Ebirah Horror of the Deep, mated and made the two breeds of Kumongo (Males) and the Kumonga (Females) j
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