Horrors of Spider Island
Horrors of Spider Island (, "A Corpse Hung in the Web") is a 1960 West German horror film written and directed by Fritz Böttger, and produced by Gaston Hakim and Wolf C. Hartwig for Rapid-Film/Intercontinental Filmgesellschaft. The film stars Alexander D'Arcy, Barbara Valentin and Rainer Brandt.
Plot
Gary Webster, a nightclub manager, accompanied by his assistant Georgia, flies a group of women from New York City to dance in his club in Singapore. While flying over the Pacific Ocean, their plane catches fire, splits in half, and plummets into the ocean. The group is next seen a few days later, suffering from dehydration on a life raft, before they finally spot a small island and stagger to dry land.
More details
| author | Fritz Böttger |
|---|---|
| director | Fritz Böttger Wolf C. Hartwig |
| editor | Heidi Genée |
| genre | horror science fiction |
| keywords | catfight dead body dead man fight fly fresh water giant spider hear kill life raft mine morning new york city pacific ocean rescue scantily clad spider web suffer wild party |
| musicBy | Tony Crombie Willy Mattes |
| producer | Gaston Hakim Wolf C. Hartwig |
| publisher | Neue Filmverleih Pacemaker Pictures |
| theme | independent monster movie science fiction horror sexploitation |