Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

Terror has 8 legs.

Directed by Stuart Hagmann

Produced by Alan Landsburg Productions

1977100 min5.0 / 10

A creature-feature thriller from the 1970s that uses a tarantula invasion as a vehicle for escalating town-wide panic and survival action.

An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the venomous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the venomous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

Questions people ask

  • Is Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo sad? Barely. Less sad than 89% of films.

  • Is Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

  • Does Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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20/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity42

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise23

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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