Posts Tagged ‘Spiders’

Oversized Arachnid Cinema

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

Looks like I’ve been falling down on my Giant Spider reporting duties. A retro black-and-white giant spider film has been released called, oddly enough, The Giant Spider.

There’s an IMDB listing for it as well.

Big Ass Spider

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

Here’s a trailer for the forthcoming film Big Ass Spider:

It’s every bit as good as you would expect a trailer for a film called Big Ass Spider to be.

I’m pretty sure the intro at the beginning of the clip was timed just right to make the bikini volleyball scene show up as the default YouTube image…

Giant Mechnical Spider

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

I like to think of Futuramen as a “go to” blog for giant spider news. I mean, after all, if I’m not going to do it, who will?

So when two guys actually build a functioning mechanical spider to ride in for $15,000, you know I’m going to be all over that.

And here’s a video of it running around Burning Man at night:

Lots more video here.

(Hat tip: Fark.)

World War II: Now With Giant Mechanical Spider

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Embrace the anachronism arachnoid mechanism.

Postscript: And as long as we’re linking to films about big-ass mechanical things attacking people, check this out.