10 Star Trek Legends Who Starred In Horror Movies
1. William Shatner - Kingdom Of The Spiders (1977)
Kingdom of the Spiders came almost a decade after the original series of Star Trek ended. The 1977 sci-fi horror was unleashed two years before Shatner took the Captain Kirk role to the big screen for the first time in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This skin-crawling caper was released during the bug-horror boom of the late-1970s, along with the likes of The Savage Bees, It Happened at Lakewood Manor, and Squirm.
William "Captain Kirk" Shatner plays a small-town veterinarian, Rack Hansen, fighting wave after wave of killer tarantulas. The killing starts with farm animals, but it quickly becomes clear that any living thing in the path of these arachnids is in deathly danger. The vet must use all his cunning and bravery to ensure that as many of the locals as possible survive the onslaught from the army of creepy, crawling killers.
This is not for the faint-hearted, nor is it for anyone remotely concerned about animal welfare. Unlike the careful spider-friendly approach to filmmaking adopted by the crew of Arachnophobia in 1990, many, many spiders were killed during the production of Kingdom of the Spiders. Shatner later expressed regret about this fact in his 2008 autobiography, Up Till Now.