Written By: Ken HulseySource: Los Angeles Times
Many of you sci fi and horror movie fans may remember the 1977 cult movie, "Kingdom of the Spiders?" What? You don't? Okay, the film starred William Shatner (you may remember him as Captain James T Kirk from Star Trek) as a veterinarian in small Arizona town that is over-run by blood-thirsty tarantulas. Still doesn't ring a bell?
Okay, as I said before the film is about the residents of a small Arizona town that is over-run by tarantulas who have started eating live-stock, small pets and people because their natural source of food has been wiped out by pesticides.
Now flash forward to present day, 2009, were a small town in Australia is being over-run by......wait for it......giant tarantulas.
Indeed, giant bird-eating tarantulas (Eastern Tarantulas), generally over 6 inches long, have invaded the town of Bowen, Australia. This time around, however, it is not a quest for human blood that has brought the eight-legged giants out of the woods, it's heavy rains and flooding.
While the monster spiders may not be a threat to humans (not yet) they have been known to kill small dogs and cats.
Don't you just love it when the events of fantasy movie happen in real life?
I wonder if the tarantulas will cover the whole town of Bowen in a giant web like they did at the end of "Kingdom of the Spiders"?
Probably not......but how cool would that be? Well, maybe not for the people of Bowen.
Bill Shatner was in Kingdom of the Spiders.
ReplyDeleteHe was not asked to appear in the new Trek movie.
The new Trek movie had its world premier in Australia.
Spiders attack a town in Australia.
Coincidence?
Yeah, probably...