Every Spider-Man Movie Ranked Worst To Best

10. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)

Spider Man Strikes Back
CBS

In 1978, two-par The Amazing Spider-Man episode "Deadly Dust" became the second movie to be stitched together for a theatrical release.

Nicholas Hammond returned as Peter Parker/Spider-Man (still preposterously old for a college kid), and the production values remained on the same level (you can very much feel that it's made for TV rather than the big screen). The plot sees one of Parker's tutors accidentally giving three students the correct ingredients to make a nuclear bomb and Parker himself under suspicion while Mr White returns to try and get his hands on the bomb to blow up the World Trade Centre.

The low costs really show here: Spider-Man is barely in costume, there's very little action and no special effects and there's just not the substance around those missing parts to make it any good. It's tacky and silly and very much of its time, and that's pretty much the only way to watch it.

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