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Every Saturday at Midnight, beatniks Zelda, Bird, and Theodore show the movies that must be shown!\u00a0 It’s a journey into the good, the bad and the foreign on “Off Beat Cinema!” – right after “Svengoolie” at 10p.m. for a double feature of fun!<\/p>\n

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This nationally syndicated late night movie show is produced right here at WBBZ-TV in Buffalo, featuring hometown actors Constance Caldwell, Anthony Billoni, and Jeffrey Roberts.<\/p>\n

This week, it’s “Earth Vs. the Spider!”\u00a0 Who will win?<\/p>\n

Earth vs. the Spider<\/b><\/i> (a.k.a. The Spider<\/b><\/i> and Earth vs. the Giant Spider<\/b><\/i>) is an independently made<\/a> 1958 American black-and-white<\/a> science fiction<\/a>–horror<\/a> film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon<\/a>, who also wrote the story upon which the screenplay<\/a> by George Worthing Yates<\/a> and Laszlo Gorog<\/a> is based. The film stars Ed Kemmer<\/a>, June Kenney<\/a>, and Eugene Persson<\/a>. The special effects were by Bert I. Gordon and Paul Blaisdell<\/a>. Earth vs. the Spider<\/i> was released by AIP<\/a> on a double bill<\/a> with either The Brain Eaters<\/a><\/i> or The Screaming Skull<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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Jack Flynn is driving down a highway<\/a> at night, looking at a bracelet<\/a> he has bought his daughter<\/a> for her birthday<\/a>, when he hits something and his vehicle crashes. The next morning, his teenage daughter Carol, is concerned that her ne’er do well father didn’t come home last night. She convinces her boyfriend Mike to assist in a search for her father. They find his crashed truck and the bracelet, but not his body. Thinking he crawled into a nearby cave<\/a>, they investigate. In the cave they fall onto the gigantic orb web<\/a> of an enormous tarantula<\/a>, which emerges from behind some rocks to get them. They manage to escape and make it back to town.<\/p>\n

Carol and Mike have a hard time convincing the Sheriff<\/a> about the giant spider, but with the help of their science teacher, Mr. Kingman, they return to the cave and find the missing man’s body, drained of fluids. The spider attacks again convincing the sheriff, who orders large amounts of DDT<\/a> to kill the giant spider. The apparently lifeless body of the spider is taken back to town to the high school<\/a> gym<\/a> where Kingman wants to study it. A group of teenagers<\/a> uses the gym to practice rock and roll<\/a> numbers they are going to play for a school dance<\/a>. The music awakens the giant tarantula and crashes through wall of the gym. The janitor<\/a>, stopping to call the sheriff, is killed.<\/p>\n

The spider terrorizes the town, killing a number of people before it heads back to its cave. The Sheriff along with Kingman use dynamite<\/a> to seal the spider in, but then discover Carol and Mike had gone into the cave to retrieve the bracelet her father had bought her. Kingman acquires a couple of large electrodes<\/a> from the power company and runs cables to some power lines as the tarantula is descending on a strand of web to get at the trapped teenagers. Kingman and Mike use the electrodes to electrocute<\/a> the spider. The arachnid falls, impaling itself on stalagmites<\/a> at the bottom of the cave.<\/p>\n

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Watch Saturday on WBBZ-TV, Your Hometown MeTV Station Channel 67.1 over-the-air; Cable 5; FiOS 5; Dish 5; DirecTV67.\u00a0 More information is at www.offbeatcinema.tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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