Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
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Both Julia and the audience suspect she’s being stalked, a circumstance rendered more terrifying on account of “The Spider,” an alleged serial killer stalking and beheading women in Bucharest.
In the context of horror history, in which films such as King Kong, The Spider and The Creature from the Black Lagoon used monsters as stand-ins for black people, Peele’s success feels like a multilayered triumph.
He had no shame when it came to borrowing ideas; this Big Bug movie rips off Them! just as had his Beginning of the End from the year before -- it even has the same writer, George Worthing Yates.