10 Gloriously Schlocky 1950s B Movies You Have To See

Bert I. Gordon had already tackled giant grasshoppers in Beginning of the End, but two years later he decided to do the same sort of thing with spiders in Earth vs. The Spider. A girl goes searching for her missing father and discovers a giant spider inside a cave. She brings some backup and they're able to knock the spider unconscious, and so they decide to take it to...the local high school?

Yeah, the girl's science teacher helps her capture the spider, and so he brings it to the high school gym to study it. Of course, a bunch of teenagers in a band break into the gym to rock out when the spider comes alive. They see the spider, by the way, but for some reason a giant freaking spider lying there doesn't deter them from having their practice. The thing escapes, which is surprising because after all, they were keeping it in the totally safe location of a school gym. 

The spider starts going around killing a bunch of people, although most of the deaths happen off screen unfortunately. As with Beginning of the End, Gordon uses the same effect here of taking a real spider and making it appear huge on camera. The movie is a lot dumber than Beginning of the End, but that only makes it more fun to watch.