The Giant Spider Invasion is a 1975 science fiction horror film directed by Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. The Giant Spider Invasion was given a U.S. release in theaters in 1975, and was distributed by Group 1 Films. The film received a considerable theatrical run and became one of the 50 top-grossing films of that year. After a three-time ABC television network run, the movie achieved additional exposure many years later, when it was featured in a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.  It is now regarded as a cult classic in the B movie realm.

Plot
The central plot of the film revolves around the titular spider invasion, which occurs when what appears to be a meteorite crashes down in rural Wisconsin, and spawns spiders of varying sizes.

Subplots include Dan Kester and his love/hate relationship with his wife Ev, Dan's adulterous affair with local barmaid Helga, Dave Perkins' attempts to make out with Ev's underaged sister Terry, a fundamentalist preacher leading a revival meeting, and Drs. Vance and Langer becoming romantically involved. The townspeople eventually panic when confronted with the spider.

The invasion is deduced to be the result of some sort of interdimensional gateway, and is ultimately thwarted when Drs. Vance and Langer manage to close off the gateway, draining the spiders of their energy and causing them to melt into puddles of sludge.

Cast

Production
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Originally conceived as an idea from Richard Huff, he and actor Robert Easton, a friend of Rebane, were tasked to write the script. By the time filming began, creative differences led to a script not being made and only pages of dialogue had been written. To motivate Easton, who was told to write 10 to 15 pages a day, Rebane locked him in a cabin and told him to finish the daily task or he would not be fed. The cast of the film consisted of Hollywood veterans. It was tentatively titled The Great Spider Invasion.

The Giant Spider Invasion was shot in Gleason, Tomahawk and Merrill, Wisconsin in six weeks with a budget of $300,000.  The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point was also used for filming. Former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin and future Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge William Dyke was an uncredited executive producer, helping to fund and find a distributor for the film. Special effects artist Bob Millay was hired to design the spiders for the film. Jack Willoughby was the cinematographer. Rebane's wife Barbara worked as the script girl. Tarantulas were used in portions of the film, sent from Arizona through trucking by the special effects crew.

While attempting to film a scene where the spider explodes, the effects team covered the prop with gunpowder and had a crew member attempt to ignite it with matches. Despite using the entire matchbox, the spider did not explode and Rebane decided to stop filming. Immediately after they stopped, the spider exploded, causing two crew members to get their hair singed and be taken to the hospital to be treated for severe burns.

Release
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The Giant Spider Invasion was distributed by Group 1 International Distribution Organization. The movie was released in theaters in 1975. In an interview with Fangoria in 1996, Bill Rebane claimed the movie grossed $15 million. Turner Classic Movies claimed the movie made a $22 million return. In the United States and Canada, video rentals of the movie in 1976 grossed to $2,347,000. On television, it was featured on The CBS Late Movie.

The Giant Spider Invasion was released on DVD by multiple video companies, including Retromedia in 2002 and a director's cut on May 5, 2009 by MVD Visual. It was released on Blu-ray on June 15, 2015 by VCI Entertainment.

Reception
Brandlon L. Chase, the president of distributor Group 1 International Distribution Organization, won the "Outstanding Executive Achievement" award at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Linda Gross for the Los Angeles Times called it a "poorly done combination of science fiction, Jaws, and Day of the Locust." Gross was also critical on the films script and Rebane's direction, but thought the spiders to be scary. Glenn Garvin from The Delta Democrat-Times described the movie as "self-subconsciously ludicrous". Garvin also recounted during his theater experience kids at the screening were laughing instead of being scared by the film. Albuquerque Journals Chuck Mittlestadt gave the film a warmer reception, giving positive marks for its editing and direction. Mittlestadt also gave praise to Barbara Hale, Kevin Brodie, and Alan Hale's acting.

Michael Weldon, in The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, while criticizing the special effects and comparing them negatively to The Giant Claw, he considered the movie to be "Lots of laughs". Leonard Maltin wrote, "Veteran cast can't do much for this tacky horror opus filmed in Wisconsin." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever gave the film one star, while Robert Firsching from Allmovie gave the movie one star out of five, speaking negatively about Rebane's direction and the movie's use of humor. Blockbuster Entertainment gave the film one star and thought that the unintentional laughs from the film worn thin quickly.

The film is listed on 'The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made' in the book The Official Razzie Movie Guide by Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson. Wired listed the movie as one of the "cheesiest movies" ever made.

Legacy
On May 31, 1997, The Giant Spider Invasion was featured on the Sci-Fi Channel in a season eight episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), a comedy television series in which the character Mike Nelson and his two robot friends Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo are forced to watch 'bad films' as part of an ongoing scientific experiment. Regarding the episode, Director Bill Rebane thought it was strange, but overall accepted it due to its popularity.

In 2006, Rhino Entertainment released the MST3K episode as part of the "Volume 10" DVD collection of the series, along with Godzilla vs. Megalon, Swamp Diamonds, and Teen-Age Strangler. The boxset was later recalled due to the rights to Godzilla vs. Megalon being disputed. It was redistributed in the "Volume 10.2" collection in 2008, with Godzilla vs. Megalon being replaced by The Giant Gila Monster.

Bill Rebane had a festival given in his honor; the "Bill Rebane Film Festival" took place in Madison, Wisconsin in May 2005. Hosting the festival were MST3K stars Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy, the voice of Tom Servo. In an article recapping the festival in Scary Monsters Magazine, the two noted that although they lambasted the film during their show, they admired how Rebane was able to pull cast and crew together to get the film made. In 2011, it was announced that the movie was going to be remade into a musical.

In a 2012 interview with Wisconsin television station WSAW-TV, Rebane remarked that he was not sure how the movie became popular, saying it was not an initial hit until it became a cult classic. He also stated that while the movie grossed millions of dollars over the past 35 years, he never saw a fraction of the money, calling the film "one of the most pirated movies in history." Despite his grievances, Rebane was proud of the impact that the movie made for the city of Merrill, Wisconsin.

In 2012, film historian Bill Dexter found the shells of the two 30-feet spiders with the intent on restoring the spiders to their original form. In 2013, the shell of one of the main giant spiders was reported stolen by Rebane. Weeks later, a recycling facility announced that the giant spider was brought to them as scrap metal.

See also
 List of American films of 1975
 Night of the Lepus (1972 horror film similar in content)
 Frogs

References

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The film received a considerable theatrical run and became one of the 50 top - grossing films of that year .

After a three - time ABC television network run , the movie achieved additional exposure many years later , when it was featured in a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 .

SYNOPSIS:
Giant spiders from another dimension invade Wisconsin.
REVIEW:
There are good movies, there are bad movies, there are bad movies that are so bad that they are good, and there is the Giant Spider Invasion. Make no mistake, this 70’s B-movie is a fun time and is enjoyable to watch, mostly because it just doesn’t take itself too seriously. Instead, it Is a schizophrenic script that goes back and forth from trying to be serious to simply not caring and, oddly enough, it works.
Of course, if one if going to shoot a B-movie in the 70’s, one simply cannot go wrong by including “the Skipper”, Alan Hale and ensuring that his first appearance opens with him calling someone “little buddy”. Then take Barbara Hale (no relation) and bring her husband Bill Williams in, and toss character actor Steve Brodie and his son Kevin into the mix. Shake and let sit.
Now, this is obviously not going to be a high quality production. The extent of cinematography seemed to be zoom in/out and the science involved was…well.. So a black hole strikes the earth and opens up a trans-dimensional rift through which things emerge. Yes, things come out of the black hole which is seen as a white streak as it crosses the cosmos on a collision course with our planet, repeatedly for the first 10-15 minutes of the movie. So, it is not a black hole then. Why the astronomer and the scientist from NASA would think it was a black hole we can chalk up to lazy 70’s writing and an aversion to the reference section of the library. Then there are the diamond filled geodes, and all of the bad commentary about diamonds from the guy put forth as the town expert on precious stones.
Seriously, this is not a movie for realistic portrayals of science. Of course, for nearly the first half hour of the movie I was wondering if this was going to be a good movie for the inclusion of giant spiders. Indeed, for the first twenty seven minutes of the 84 minute viewing time, we see no spiders at all. The first time we do see one it is the standard 1970’s spooky spider favorite, the tarantula. Sure, it is a tarantula that can apparently crack its way out of a diamond filled geode, and it can apparently spin webs (that appear and disappear at will) but it is certainly a tarantula.
Trite and clichéd as it is to use a tarantula, at least it gives the creep factor for those who are bothered by spiders. It isn’t until a full forty minutes in that we are introduced to our first, actual, giant spider as it lunged out from a dresser drawer. How a spider that large got inside the dresser notwithstanding, the reveal isn’t bad (far better than the spider effect itself). The director uses a bit of misdirection a few times in the movie to make the audience think that their assumption they are about to see a giant spider is wrong and so when you finally see a giant spider? Frankly, it is rather gratifying.
The first half of the movie plays out a bit oddly. No real horror, no real science, no real setup, just providing a few introductions to the characters of the film, their particular peccadilloes, and their biases (the NASA scientist, upon meeting the female PhD astronomer asks for her father, husband, and brother before realizing that she is the person he is seeking). We also get a bit more of the folksy, homespun, dialog of the sheriff with such lines as “Geiger counter? We don’t have no geigers around here. Never did.” So, with a story rather scattered between scientists searching for truth, locals trying to sell diamonds, a bit of adultery, and very little spiders, one might wonder when things get good. The fact is, up to this point it is slow (very) but not horrible. At the halfway point though, things get fun.
We are treated to a giant spider swallowing a man whole; giant spiders that are obviously built atop Volkswagen bugs as they race around a little league game; a man driving into a tree (with a subsequent car explosion) because of a tarantula in the car; a house-sized spider with two giant white eyes, and so much more. But when the locals decide to round up a posse to go riding out after a giant spider while the police seem more concerned about the posse than the spider? We’re talking good times. Word spreads far and wide pretty rapidly about the spider attacks…except to the carnival. Did we mention the carnival? We should probably say something about the carnival. It looks to be bad home movies for the most part. One would think it would detract but it just adds to the ridiculous charm of the movie. When the spider finally is attacking towns? The sheriff is calmly on the phone to the National Guard. In fact, the sheriff never loses his calm. So, by the time we are treated to a deputy knife-fighting an apparently bullet-proof, red-eyed, giant spider we have been thoroughly ensnared in the cheesiness that is this movie.
So yes, the science is awful, the writing subpar, the day for night scenes overused and jarring but the movie is just fun. This isn’t a good movie, but it is entertaining for the B-movie buffs out there.
Two and a half out of five stars.
Blu-ray | 2 DISC | 84 minutes | 1975 | Color | PG | English language | English subtitles | 1.85:1 | Dolby Digital Mono | All
- New 2015 Documentary by Daniel Griffith – “Size Does Matter! Making The Giant Spider Invasion”
- Bonus CD from “The Giant Spider Invasion the Musical” – 14 Rockin’ Tracks from the forth-coming Live Musical-Stage Play
- Mini ‘TGSI’ Collectible Comic Book
- The SUPER-8 Version (the original home media format!)
- The SUPER-8 Version re-edited in HD!
- Archival Interviews with cult-film director Bill Rebane and other members of the cast, crew and Super-fans
- Archival Interview with actor Robert Easton (Kester)
- Bill Rebane introduction by Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson (of Mystery Science Theater fame)
- Extensive Behind-the-Scenes Photo Gallery
- Original Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots
- Archival TV News Reports
- Liner Notes written by Tom Stockman, WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) is now available on VCI Entertainment

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Answer: Mystery Science Theater 3000

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By the time filming began , creative differences led to a script not being made and only pages of dialogue had been written .

To motivate Easton , who was told to write 10 to 15 pages a day , Rebane locked him in a cabin and told him to finish the daily task or he would not be fed .

Stephen King's rare foray into nonfiction writing in 1981, Danse Macabre
, pays tribute to some of the influences and memories that have guided him as America's most popular horror writer. And wouldn't ya know it, one of those formative B-movie experiences was Bill Rebane's The Giant Spider Invasion
(1975). But King didn't need to call it out by name like this-the influence of Giant Spiders
on King's imagination can just as well be charted in his 1980 short story The Mist
(yes, it's a movie now, too). Small town setting, a dimensional portal through which giant critters come, a fire-n-brimstone Christian preacher convinced the monster shenanigans portend the Biblical apocalypse - King took The Giant Spider Invasion
apart and reassembled its pieces into something better.
Of course, it's grossly unfair to compare the near-amateur production of The Giant Spider Invasion
to Stephen King. They aren't quite playing the same game. Bill Rebane had dreamt of making dramas and comedies, but found himself relegated to the horror/science-fiction genre because that was the only way for an independently made feature in the early 1970s to reliably find profit-making distribution outlets. So, knowing this, Rebane took a jaundiced look at the field's standard-bearer, Roger Corman, and tried to distill a basic Cormanesque exploitation movie formula. This he then gave to writer Richard Huff, a Madison-based scribe who hadn't worked on a film before and never would again, who cooked up the basic idea of monster spiders attacking Wisconsin.
Based on Huff's story, Rebane went ahead and cast the film, contracting Hollywood veterans like Alan Hale, Steve Brodie and Barbara Hale. The performers arrived, and Rebane was scheduled to start shooting-the only problem was that Huff had yet to turn that idea into an actual workable script. Alan Hale suggested to his director that he might be well advised to bring on Robert Easton, a professor of English at the University of California known to the acting community there as a reliable dialogue coach. In other words, Easton was a man of letters who knew the film industry and could be counted on to help shape the material into something usable.
Easton arrived and was tasked with churning out ten to fifteen pages a day, an absurd deadline. To keep the man on task, says Rebane, "the producers took Robert and locked him in a cabin by the lake and told him that he had to finish so many pages a day or they wouldn't feed him. Now, Robert likes his food. He's really a genuine connoisseur, so him not getting any food was just an unbelievable thought to him, but the line producer held his ground."
Under these conditions, Easton did generate the script pages-which would then be forwarded to Huff for his revisions, then to the producers for review and approval, then back to Easton, and only then on to the set. Meanwhile, during this crazy cycle, Rebane had to keep shooting, filming a movie whose ending had yet to be decided.
Needless to say, the strain on the production team showed. The Giant Spider Invasion
's biggest thrill sequence was to see the giant spiders attacking the town, in a recreation of the kind of classic scenes typical for 1950's era monster flicks. The filmmakers announced that the sequence was to be filmed in the nearby town of Merrill, and advertised for interested Merrillites to apply as extras. It became the cause célèbre of local life-with extensive print and TV coverage by the Merrill press of the event, which was kicked off by political luminaries like a Wisconsin Senator and the Mayor of Merrill making official speeches. The crowd had been worked up, but as the appointed hour dawned there was yet no sign of the crew or the spiders. The hours dragged by, and only later that night, when all but the most hardcore wanna-be extras had long since departed and the patience of those who remained had been thoroughly exhausted, did the ludicrous spider props appear. The cameras had been loaded with film stock in anticipation of the midday shoot, and as a result the finished scene is badly underexposed and grainy, and the crowd is visibly agitated and bad-tempered.
Later, the time came for Rebane to film a stunning explosion of one of the spiders. The effects team covered the prop with gunpowder and dispatched a crew member (history does not record his name, if he was on Star Trek
he'd have been wearing a red shirt) to drop matches onto the spider from above. Match after match fell to the gunpowder-dusted creature without igniting any flame. Hoping to get something started, the lowly crew member lit the entire pack of matches and dropped them all at once-still nothing. Despairing, Rebane called "cut." And at that moment, as the film stopped, the spider went up in a massive explosion that singed the hair off Mr. Red Shirt. As the ruined spider smoldered, so did Rebane, his one-time effect lost.
It is part of the curious nature of this oddball movie that it has its share of genuine production value: helicopters, exploding cars, giant spiders, fleeing mobs. Yet for all this it never feels anything other than cheap.
Indeed, the whole shebang cost no more than $250,000 (that's the equivalent of roughly a million dollars today). As The Giant Spider Invasion
made its way through the drive-ins and exploitation houses, and then to the CBS Late Night Movie
, though, it found an appreciative audience and managed to recoup a staggering $22 Million in return ($89 Million in today's figures).
Fellow Wisconsinite Mike Nelson knew the score. He lampooned The Giant Spider Invasion
on Mystery Science Theater 3000
but in the spirit of a roast. In 2005, Nelson hosted a film festival in Rebane's honor, which helped spark a revival of interest in The Giant Spider Invasion
. Made to feed an exploitation market's ephemeral hunger, here the movie still stands, unbowed by time, and here it is screened on cable's most prestigious movie channel. Hardly surprising, then, that Rebane has started talking about a sequel, which Rebane believes would benefit from more professional-looking CGI effects. For something not so far removed from an amateur production, that's quite an accomplishment.
by David Kalat
Sources:
Dave Coleman, Interview with Bill Rebane, Bijouflix.com
Gene Dorsogna, "The Spider Was a Beetle, or: Pardon Me But Your Chassis is Showing," Horror-Wood.com
Bill Rebane, BillRebaneNews.com
John Thonen, "Bill Rebane's Giant Spider Invasion," Mania.com
Cory J. Udler, "Reliving the Invasion," video documentary.
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Question: what happened to easton when he was told to finish writing

Answer: Rebane locked him in a cabin

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Question: who locked easton in a cabin and told him to finish writing

Answer: Rebane

Question: who was told to write 10 to 15 pages a day

Answer: Easton

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Answer: 10 to 15

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Question: where was easton locked in for writing

Answer: a cabin

Question: what part of the script was not written

Answer: dialogue

Question: what caused the script not being made

Answer: creative differences

The Giant Spider Invasion was released on DVD by multiple video companies , including Retromedia in 2002 and a director 's cut on May 5 , 2009 by MVD Visual .

It was released on Blu - ray on June 15 , 2015 by VCI Entertainment .

The Giant Spider Invasion Spins Its Web on Blu-ray This Summer
If you ever invite yours truly to a party and you’re ready for me to hit the proverbial road, all you have to do is start playing a movie that prominently features spiders. I’ll be out the door before you can properly pronounce “arachnophobia.” Even something as inherently silly as Bill Rebane’s 1975 cult flick The Giant Spider Invasion will scare the accidentally swallowed spider eggs outta me.
Since I love horror movies and adore being scared out of my wits, I’m obsessed with spider movies of all shapes and sizes. Naturally, as a B-movie fanatic, I was understandably thrilled that VCI Entertainment is unleashing The Giant Spider Invasion on Blu-ray this summer. Trust me: This flick is enjoyable even without the “Mystery Science Theater 3000” commentary.
Unfamiliar with The Giant Spider Invasion? Here’s a short synopsis:
Giant spiders from outer space begin to invade Earth when a huge black hole appears in a farmer’s field outside a small town in Wisconsin. A NASA scientist deduces the invasion is the result of some sort of intergalactic gateway, as he devises a plan to stop the huge, hairy, creeping crawlers from devouring the local population.
Sure, the film is delightfully cheesy and totally far-fetched, but when your arachnophobia is almost completely unmanageable, even this sort of picture is enough to give you the heebie-jeebies. Fans of The Giant Spider Invasion can snag the three-disc Blu-ray set on June 15, 2015. The flick is packaged with a behind-the-scenes documentary, archival footage, and a CD featuring “The Giant Spider Invasion: The Musical.” All for $24.99. Nerve pills not included.
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Leonard Maltin wrote , " Veteran cast ca n't do much for this tacky horror opus filmed in Wisconsin . "

VideoHound 's Golden Movie Retriever gave the film one star , while Robert Firsching from Allmovie gave the movie one star out of five , speaking negatively about Rebane 's direction and the movie 's use of humor .

The giant spider-queen in The Giant Spider Invasion looks ridiculous, but director Bill Rebane still manages a few effective moments, like the scene in which a wolf-spider drops into Leslie Parrish's blender as she's mixing a Bloody Mary. The audience knows it's there, but the Kesters don't, creating a funny/nervous sequence as they shuffle the glass between them, picking it up and almost drinking several times until Parrish gets a mouthful of creepy-crawly. There's also a fairly impressive bit in which the spider-queen devours a man alive, pushing his body slowly into its gaping maw with huge hairy fangs. Unfortunately, Rebane continually undercuts the film with unconvincing long shots of the spider shuffling across the plains (at one point it's obviously a Volkswagen with a carpet on top) and absolutely awful sub-Hee-Haw humor. Alan Hale Jr. himself is the prime offender here, exemplified by his look at a Geiger-counter: "We don't have any Geigers 'round these parts." The two scientists also get unintentional laughs with goofy theorizing about quantuum mechanics and particle-beams, which seems extremely out of place amidst the Kornfield Kounty ambience of the film. This is a perversely entertaining disaster.

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Answer: Robert Firsching

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Legacy On May 31 , 1997 , The Giant Spider Invasion was featured on the Sci - Fi Channel in a season eight episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( MST3 K ) , a comedy television series in which the character Mike Nelson and his two robot friends Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo are forced to watch ' bad films ' as part of an ongoing scientific experiment .

Wisconsin cult filmmaker celebrates 40 years of 'Giant Spider'
SAXON, Wis. — Bill Rebane's turned down Ronald Reagan. He's run for Wisconsin governor. And his biggest partnership: spiders the size of Volkswagens.
"I'm not a fan of spiders, believe me," Bill Rebane said.
This seems unexpected from the director of "Giant Spider Invasion," which was made in north central Wisconsin and released in 1975. The film marks its 40th anniversary this month with a Blu-ray release.
Starring Alan Hale Jr., the skipper from "Gilligan's Island," and a 25-foot spider built on a Volkswagen chassis, "Giant Spider" was a box-office hit, ranking in the top-grossing 50 films of the year.
The film's popularity only increased when the Minnesota-based TV show "Mystery Science Theater 3000" lampooned it in 1997. Panicked residents were turned by voiceover into Wisconsinites rioting and screaming, "Packers won the Super Bowl!"
"At first, I felt kind of strange about it," Rebane said of the episode. "But then, I got with the time and the act, so I decided, eh, everybody loved it." MST3K writers/actors Michael Nelson and Kevin Murphy hosted a festival of Rebane's films in 2005 in Madison.
Now living in Saxon, he aims to produce a musical comedy for the stage about the making of "Giant Spider Invasion" with a rock-blues-rap score written by fans of the movie.
Rebane was born in 1937 in Latvia, of Estonian nationality. He spent much of his childhood as a World War II refugee, traveling by horse and covered wagon. "Sometimes, we went into bomb shelters and the tops would crack and the rubble would fall," he said.
In the 1950s his family moved to Chicago, where he learned English by watching movies. "In those days, they had theaters almost every two blocks on the south side of Chicago, and there were always triple or quadruple features," he said.
At 17, he worked in the WGN-TV mailroom and moved up to become the executive producer's assistant. Since he was fluent in multiple languages, WGN sent him overseas. "I flew the first jet from Pan American, Frankfurt to New York. Before that it was prop planes, took 24 hours to get across. That's a time for drinking heavy," he said.
In the early 1960s, he made two highly profitable shorts, "Twist Craze" and "Dance Craze." With his investors happy, he set out to make a feature film, to be called "Terror at Half Day," in which radiation turns an astronaut into a monster.
He offered Ronald Reagan a lead role as a scientist. Noting Rebane's accent, Reagan asked, "Where are you from, young man?"
"I hated that question 'cause I answered it a million times," Rebane said.
The future president was interested in the role, especially since one of his former leading ladies was in the cast. But when Rebane spoke about Reagan to prospective financial backers, "Everyone I talked to said, 'Come on, this guy's a has-been.' " So, another actor was chosen.
When the production ran out of money, he sold the unfinished film to his cameraman, Herschell Gordon Lewis. A director himself, Lewis was notorious for inventing splatter films with "Blood Feast" and "Two Thousand Maniacs!"
Lewis released "Terror at Half Day" under the title "Monster a-Go-Go!" Rebane calls it "the worst film ever made."
"There's a lot of footage missing," he said. "That's the problem to begin with." It features an actor making the sound of a telephone ringing with his lips, and the story ends by announcing the monster never existed.
Rebane continued working with Hollywood productions in Europe and co-owned a German studio. During a Wisconsin fishing trip, he bought an old farm near Gleason and turned it into a studio.
In 1974, he returned to feature films. His wife, Barbara Rebane, became his collaborator. "She made things happen on time and on schedule and on a budget," he said. Barbara died in December 2014. The movies "definitely not" could have happened without her, he said.
Rebane's daughter, Jutta Rebane Bax, also worked on all of his films. In "Giant Spider Invasion," at age 14, she worked in wardrobe and set design and appeared in bit parts. She was one of seven teenagers, along with her cousin and brother, who crammed inside the spider to operate the legs. "One guy had asthma, and it was super-hot in there, so I took his place," she said.
Two 25-foot spiders were made, the other one lifted by crane. Barbara special-ordered eight bolts of fake fur from Herberger's in Wausau to cover the frames.
Rebane insists that his war experience had no influence on his career making horror films. But while filming "Rana: The Legend of Lost Lake," Rebane found himself unable to enter a cave to direct a scene. "My wife went down there with them, directed that part. You couldn't get me down there for nothing. I think it was the bomb shelter scare," he said.
He ran for Wisconsin governor in 1978 and 2002 as a "nonpolitician." In his first race, when he went to meet the press at a bowling alley in Gleason, "They said, 'What's your platform?' I didn't even know what a platform was." Needless to say he didn't win either time, but he said, "I didn't care much about the results."
A stroke in 1988 put an end to his feature filmmaking. "My left side was paralyzed. It took two and a half years to get back in the swing of things," he said. Today, he continues making documentaries and writing scripts and books. A box set of his films is due to be released this fall.
He is also spearheading a community effort to restore the first Estonian church built in North America, located in Gleason and abandoned in the 1960s. A fundraising concert will take place there July 18.
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Bill Rebane filmography
• 1962: "Twist Craze" (executive producer)
• 1962: "Dance Craze" (producer/director)
• 1965: "Terror at Half Day" (released as "Monster a-Go-Go!")
• 1974: "Invasion from Inner Earth" (aka "The Selected" or "They")
• 1975: "Giant Spider Invasion"
• 1978: "The Alpha Incident"
• 1979: "The Capture of Bigfoot"
• 1981: "Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake"
• 1983: "The Demons of Ludlow"
• 1984: "The Game" (aka "The Cold")
• 1987: "Blood Harvest"
• 1988: "Twister's Revenge!"
• 1997: "The Paulding Light"
• TBD: "Silver Street: The Lotta Morgan Story" (documentary)
• TBD: "Rosemount" (screenwriter)

Question: when did the giant spider invasion air

Answer: May 31, 1997

Question: what tv show featured the giant spider invasion

Answer: Mystery Science Theater 3000

what tv show featured the giant spider invasion

Question: what is the name of the robot in the tv series the giant spider invasion

Answer: Mike Nelson

Question: what are mike nelson's two robot friends called

Answer: Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo

what are mike nelson's two robot friends called

Question: what are mike and his two robot friends forced to watch in the giant spider invasion

Answer: bad films

Question: what year did the giant spider invasion appear

Answer: 1997

what year did the giant spider invasion appear

Question: what channel did the giant spider invasion appear on

Answer: Sci-Fi Channel

what channel did the giant spider invasion appear on

Question: what episode of mystery science theater 3000 featured mike nelson and his two robot friends

Answer: The Giant Spider Invasion

In 2006 , Rhino Entertainment released the MST3 K episode as part of the " Volume 10 " DVD collection of the series , along with Godzilla vs. Megalon , Swamp Diamonds , and Teen - Age Strangler .

I am – Hercules!!
This is a way overstuffed edition. Hang on with the tightness.
Even though “Arrested Development’s” third and final season was eligible, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave this year’s “best comedy” Golden Globe to “Deperate Housewives.” For the second year in a row. Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria funnier than David Cross and Jeffrey Tambor? If you say so, Hollywood Foreign Press Association! Maybe if “AD” served the HFPA tastier bacon-wrapped shrimp at one of the association’s many many junkets, “SD” would still be on the air right now. We’ll never know!
Flavor of Love: The Complete First Season is a romantic- elimination show famous for a just-rejected contestant spitting into the mouth of one of her still-in-the-running competitors. That never happens on “The Bachelor.”
Each of the six discs on this set, featuring favorite sketches from the classic BBC series with newly shot wraparounds, sells separately for $17.99. $17.99 times six equals $107.94. The six-disc “Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Personal Best,” is $31.49.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Volume 10 brings four more movies loudly and hilariously mocked by funny men and puppets.
“Godzilla Vs. Megalon” (1973), a sci-fi actioner about giant Lizard defending Earth from the mascot of Seatopia, is a 1991 Joel episode from the Comedy Channel, and one of the most revered of all MST3K installments. Joel and the bots host a morning show. Those who remember Joel Hodgson’s stand-up act will recognize the easy-to-make Halloween costumes. Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy, puts in an appearance. Orville Reddenbacher and his “grandson” are mocked. And the bots get new arms.
“Swamp Diamonds” (1955), a crime drama about a hot young female prison escapee and her hot young female undercover pursuer, is a 1993 Joel episode from Comedy Central. The “Stoner Spock” episode of “Star Trek” is remembered as Joel endeavors to make angry the world’s most famous Vulcanian. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Grill is introduced. Tom Servo dates Gypsy. And the U-View shows Frank an alternate universe.
“Teen-age Strangler” (1968), a mystery thriller about dating teens trying to learn the identity of a West Virginia serial murderer, is a 1993 Mike episode (only the 2nd Mike-hosted episode ever) from Comedy Central. The Frank-N-Forcer, the Waiter Baiter and “The Janitor Song” are introduced. The Burt-Loni breakup is pondered. Mike turns into the male lead’s kid brother.
“The Giant Spider Invasion” (1975), a sci-fi thriller about flesh-eating arachnids who emerge from another dimension into Wisconsin, is a 1997 Mike episode from the SciFi Channel. The entire episode features Mike and the bots trying not to be transformed into the pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
“Mel Gibson was right, Kyle. Right now, the Jew inside of you is screaming ‘No! Those cost money! Get your money back!’ You know this to be true. Prove Mel Gibson wrong, Kyle. Do it.”
In South Park: The Complete Eighth Season, Butters is disguised as a dog after he catches a ninja throwing-star in his eye. Jimmy goes on steroids and Cartman competes in the Special Olympics. Stan and Kenny go to Mel Gibson’s Malibu home and demand their money back after seeing “Passion of the Christ.” Stan organizes a dance team after “getting served.” An executive at Catamount studios wants to have sex with Cartman in an Awesome-O robot suit. A “Michael Jefferson” moves to South Park with his son, Blanket, and lures the boys into his home with his backyard amusement park. “Time immigrants” from the year 3045 begin taking jobs away from locals. An election for new mascot pits Cartman’s “turd sandwich” against Kyle’s “giant douche.” The boys set out to destroy the “heart” of the town’s new “Wall-Mart.” Trent Boyett, whom the boys had sent to juvenile hall in preschool, has been released. The boys try to sex up their closed-circuit newscast when they start getting beat by “Close-Up Animals With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats.” Wendy’s friends all utilize Paris Hilton’s “Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset.” Following a head injury, Cartman becomes a psychic detective. Finally, a trio of mountain lion cubs learn how to perform an abortion to halt the birth of the antichrist.
Survivor X: Pulau will likely be remembered as the season with the Tribe Of One. Stephenie LaGrossa became the sole member of the Ulong tribe before it finally merged with the much more successful Koror. Though Koror voted her off in short order, producers rewarded her by casting her (and fellow Ulonger Bobby Jon Drinkard) in the subsequent “Survivor: Guatemala.” This was also the season that saw Wanda and Jonathan sent home on day two – thanks to a sudden-death schoolyard pick.
The Tick Vs. Season One is, sadly, not the complete first season. Due to rights issues (with Marvel Enterprises perhaps?), this set does not contain “The Tick Vs. The Mole Men.” But the other 12 first season episodes are here, as the weak-minded superhero takes on The Idea Men, Chairface Chippendale, Dinosaur Neil, Mr. Mental, The Breadmaster (and sidekick Buttery Pat), El Seed, Thrakkorzog, Brainchild, Pineapple Pokopo, the Proto-Clown, The League of Evil (headed by the 115-year-old Terror) and Barry “The Tick” Hubris.
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(UPDATE: Cheapest TNG & DS9 Ever!!)
UPDATE!!! This just happened literally at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Amazon just gutted the pricing of new “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and new “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” Here’s where it stands as I type this:
Star Trek: The Next Generation
$44.97 The Complete First Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$47.47 The Complete Second Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$41.97 The Complete Third Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fourth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fifth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$67.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$67.99 The Complete Seventh Season
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
$44.97 The Complete First Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Second Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Third Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fourth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fifth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$67.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$69.98 The Complete Seventh Season
OK, the “Trek” price reductions, we’ve now discovered, are part of a bigger Amazon “Fall Television Sale,” which is taking up to 50% off a load of titles from Paramount and studios not called Paramount. The sale is divided into three sub-sections:
1) “COMEDY & FAMILY,” which includes “Arrested Development,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Brak Show,” “The David Steinberg Show,” “The Flintstones,” “Full House,” “Greg The Bunny,” “Grounded For Life,” “In Living COlor“The Jetsons,” “Jonny Quest,” “King of the Hill,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “M*A*S*H,” “Reba,” “Roseanne,” “Scooby-Doo Where Are You,” “Sledge Hammer!” “Slings and Arrows,” “3rd Rock,” “Top Cat,” and “The Wacky Races,” “Wonderfalls” sets.
2) “SCI-FI,” which includes “Dark Angel,” “Ghost in the Shell,” “The Lone Gunmen,” “Point Pleasant,” “Sealab 2021,” “Space Above And Beyond,” “Star Trek,” “Tripping the Rift,” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.”
3) “DRAMA & THRILLERS,” which includes “Crime Story,” “Doogie Howser,” “The Duchess of Duke Street,” “Hill Street Blues,” “The Kingdom,” “Murder in Suburbia,” “Murder One,” “NYPD Blue,” “Profit,” “The Pretender,” “Renegade,” “Remington Steele,” “Rosemary & Thyme,” “The Shield,” “Silk Stalkings,” “30 Days,” “24,” “21 Jump Street” and “The White Shadow.”
This last section is particularly significant because it contains the cheapest “24” pricing I can remember for seasons two through four:
24
$41.47 The Complete Second Season
$34.97 The Complete Third Season
$34.97 The Complete Fourth Season
All the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” DVD sets were reissued a few months ago in slimset packages that contained the same episodes, commentaries and other extras that were in the fatsets – but for a lot less money.
Now Fox is doing the same thing with the other half of the Buffiverse. Here’s what the long-available “Angel” season-sets cost you if you have to have them right now:
$44.88 Angel: The Complete First Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Second Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Third Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Fourth Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Fifth Season
On the other hand. If you order now but can wait till Nov. 28 for delivery, this is what the “Angel” slimsets cost you:
$27.99 Angel: The Complete First Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Second Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Third Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Fourth Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Fifth Season
Six years into the era of the season-set DVD, it’s suddenly a golden age for complete series-sets. How much will these series sets save you? It varies, but sometimes it’s pretty amazing. Some series-set math:
Homicide: Life on the Street
$55.99 The Complete First and Second Seasons
$89.99 The Complete Third Season
$89.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$89.99 The Complete Fifth Season
$89.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$89.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$505.94 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$209.99 The Complete Series
M*A*S*H
$29.99 The Complete First Season
$31.99 The Complete Second Season
$31.99 The Complete Third Season
$29.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$27.99 The Complete Fifth Season
$31.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$31.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$31.99 The Complete Eighth Season
$31.99 The Complete Ninth Season
$27.77 The Complete Tenth Season
$27.99 The Complete Eleventh Season
$335.67 All Eleven Seasons Purchased Separately
$139.99 The Complete Series
Alias
$45.99 The Complete First Season
$52.99 The Complete Second Season
$45.89 The Complete Third Season
$50.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$27.87 The Complete Fifth Season
$223.73 All Five Seasons Purchased Separately
$139.99 The Complete Series
The West Wing
$44.88 The Complete First Season
$44.99 The Complete Second Season
$38.99 The Complete Third Season
$44.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$44.88 The Complete Fifth Season
$39.30 The Complete Sixth Season
$38.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$296.91 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$209.99 The Complete Series
The Adventures of Superman
$31.88 The Complete First Season
$35.99 The Complete Second Season
$27.77 The Complete Third and Fourth Seasons
$27.99 The Complete Fifth and Sixth Seasons
$123.63 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$111.99 The Complete Series
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Conviction: The Complete Series
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House 2.x
Invasion: The Complete Series
Redwall 3.x
Renegade 2.x/3.x
Space Sentinels & Freedom Force: The Complete Series
Theshold: The Complete Series
Veronica Mars 2.x
The Worst Week of My Life 1.x
This Week
The Andy Griffith Show 7.x
Arrested Development 3.x
Astro Boy: Set 2
The Awful Truth: Best Of
Criss Angel: Mindfreak Halloween
Darkwing Duck Vol. 1
Desperate Housewives 2.x
Flavor of Love 1.x
Kids in the Hall: Best Of Vol. 1
Monty Python: Personal Best
Mr. Bean: Best Of
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Vol. 10
NASCAR: Driven To Win 1.x
Nip/Tuck 3.x
Roseanne Halloween
South Park 8.x
Survivor Pulau
Tale Spin Vol. 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 5
The Tick Vs. 1.x
Will & Grace 5.x
Next Week
The Abbott & Costello Show 1.x
ALF 4.x
Broken Trail: The Complete Miniseries
Buffy: Tales of the Hellmouth
Combat: Best of Espionage
Combat: Best of the Color Episodes
Commander-In-Chief Vol. 2
Doctor Who: Inferno
Doctor Who: Web Planet
Family 1.x/2.x
The Flintstones 6.x
The Flintstones 1.x-6.x
Forensic Investigators 1.x
Fraggle Rock 2.x
Goosebumps: Old Story
Goosebumps: Perfect School
Goosebumps: Shocker on Shock Street
Hustle 1.x
Lost 2.x
Oz 6.x
Oz 1.x-6.x
Red Dwarf: The Complete Series
Silk Stalkings 5.x
Supernatural 1.x
September 12
The Adventures of Chico & Guapo 1.x
America's Funniest Home Videos: Battle of the Best
America's Funniest Home Videos: Looks At Kids And Animals
America's Funniest Home Videos: Love & Marriage
America's Funniest Home Videos: Nincompoops and Boneheads
America's Funniest Home Videos: Sports Spectacular
The Batman 2.x
Black. White. 1.x
Diagnosis Murder 1.x
The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats
Grey's Anatomy 2.x
Kids in the Hall: Best Of
Las Vegas 3.x (Uncensored)
Moonlighting 4.x
The Office 2.x
Reading Rainbow: Birds of a Feather
Reading Rainbow: Desert Life
Reading Rainbow: Favorites
Reading Rainbow: How's That Made?
Reading Rainbow: Let's Go
Roseanne 5.x
Smallville 5.x
Smallville 1.x-5.x <--- NEW!!
SpongeBob SquarePants 4.x Vol. 1
Stella 1.x
(UPDATE: Cheapest TNG & DS9 Ever!!)
$44.97 The Complete First Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$47.47 The Complete Second Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$41.97 The Complete Third Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fourth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fifth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$67.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$67.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$44.97 The Complete First Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Second Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Third Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fourth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$44.97 The Complete Fifth Season <--- NEWLY ENCHEAPENED!!
$67.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$69.98 The Complete Seventh Season
$41.47 The Complete Second Season
$34.97 The Complete Third Season
$34.97 The Complete Fourth Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete First Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Second Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Third Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Fourth Season
$44.88 Angel: The Complete Fifth Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete First Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Second Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Third Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Fourth Season
$27.99 Angel: The Complete Fifth Season
$55.99 The Complete First and Second Seasons
$89.99 The Complete Third Season
$89.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$89.99 The Complete Fifth Season
$89.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$89.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$505.94 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$209.99 The Complete Series
$29.99 The Complete First Season
$31.99 The Complete Second Season
$31.99 The Complete Third Season
$29.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$27.99 The Complete Fifth Season
$31.99 The Complete Sixth Season
$31.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$31.99 The Complete Eighth Season
$31.99 The Complete Ninth Season
$27.77 The Complete Tenth Season
$27.99 The Complete Eleventh Season
$335.67 All Eleven Seasons Purchased Separately
$139.99 The Complete Series
$45.99 The Complete First Season
$52.99 The Complete Second Season
$45.89 The Complete Third Season
$50.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$27.87 The Complete Fifth Season
$223.73 All Five Seasons Purchased Separately
$139.99 The Complete Series
$44.88 The Complete First Season
$44.99 The Complete Second Season
$38.99 The Complete Third Season
$44.99 The Complete Fourth Season
$44.88 The Complete Fifth Season
$39.30 The Complete Sixth Season
$38.99 The Complete Seventh Season
$296.91 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$209.99 The Complete Series
$31.88 The Complete First Season
$35.99 The Complete Second Season
$27.77 The Complete Third and Fourth Seasons
$27.99 The Complete Fifth and Sixth Seasons
$123.63 All Seven Seasons Purchased Separately
$111.99 The Complete Series
The Bill Cosby Show 1.x
A Bit of Fry & Laurie 1.x
A Bit of Fry & Laurie 2.x
Blackstar: The Complete Series
Blue Thunder: The Complete Series
Conviction: The Complete Series
Elizabeth I: The Complete Miniseries
House 2.x
Invasion: The Complete Series
Redwall 3.x
Renegade 2.x/3.x
Space Sentinels & Freedom Force: The Complete Series
Theshold: The Complete Series
Veronica Mars 2.x
The Worst Week of My Life 1.x
The Andy Griffith Show 7.x
Arrested Development 3.x
Astro Boy: Set 2
The Awful Truth: Best Of
Criss Angel: Mindfreak Halloween
Darkwing Duck Vol. 1
Desperate Housewives 2.x
Flavor of Love 1.x
Kids in the Hall: Best Of Vol. 1
Monty Python: Personal Best
Mr. Bean: Best Of
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Vol. 10
NASCAR: Driven To Win 1.x
Nip/Tuck 3.x
Roseanne Halloween
South Park 8.x
Survivor Pulau
Tale Spin Vol. 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 5
The Tick Vs. 1.x
Will & Grace 5.x
The Abbott & Costello Show 1.x
ALF 4.x
Broken Trail: The Complete Miniseries
Buffy: Tales of the Hellmouth
Combat: Best of Espionage
Combat: Best of the Color Episodes
Commander-In-Chief Vol. 2
Doctor Who: Inferno
Doctor Who: Web Planet
Family 1.x/2.x
The Flintstones 6.x
The Flintstones 1.x-6.x
Forensic Investigators 1.x
Fraggle Rock 2.x
Goosebumps: Old Story
Goosebumps: Perfect School
Goosebumps: Shocker on Shock Street
Hustle 1.x
Lost 2.x
Oz 6.x
Oz 1.x-6.x
Red Dwarf: The Complete Series
Silk Stalkings 5.x
Supernatural 1.x
The Adventures of Chico & Guapo 1.x
America's Funniest Home Videos: Battle of the Best
America's Funniest Home Videos: Looks At Kids And Animals
America's Funniest Home Videos: Love & Marriage
America's Funniest Home Videos: Nincompoops and Boneheads
America's Funniest Home Videos: Sports Spectacular
The Batman 2.x
Black. White. 1.x
Diagnosis Murder 1.x
The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats
Grey's Anatomy 2.x
Kids in the Hall: Best Of
Las Vegas 3.x (Uncensored)
Moonlighting 4.x
The Office 2.x
Reading Rainbow: Birds of a Feather
Reading Rainbow: Desert Life
Reading Rainbow: Favorites
Reading Rainbow: How's That Made?
Reading Rainbow: Let's Go
Roseanne 5.x
Smallville 5.x
Smallville 1.x-5.x <--- NEW!!
SpongeBob SquarePants 4.x Vol. 1
Stella 1.x

Question: when did the first episode of godzilla come out

Answer: 2006

when did the first episode of godzilla come out

Question: who made the mst3k episode

Answer: Rhino Entertainment

Question: what is the name of the first episode of the series

Answer: Godzilla vs. Megalon

what is the name of the first episode of the series

Question: what episode of monster vs megalon was released as part of volume 10

Answer: MST3K

Question: what is the name of the second volume of the series

Answer: Volume 10

what is the name of the second volume of the series

Question: what are the names of the monsters in the series

Answer: Godzilla vs. Megalon, Swamp Diamonds

what are the names of the monsters in the series

Question: what was the first volume of the series called

Answer: "Volume 10

what was the first volume of the series called

Question: what are the names of all of the monsters in the series

Answer: Godzilla vs. Megalon, Swamp Diamonds, and Teen-Age Strangler

what are the names of all of the monsters in the series

Hosting the festival were MST3 K stars Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy , the voice of Tom Servo .

In an article recapping the festival in Scary Monsters Magazine , the two noted that although they lambasted the film during their show , they admired how Rebane was able to pull cast and crew together to get the film made .

The Giant Spider Invasion to be Remade as a Musical Comedy
Bill Rebane News
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Sometimes a news story comes along for which there are no words. When rumors swirled back in 2008 that b-moviemaker Bill Rebane was planning to remake his 1975 bad movie cult hit The Giant Spider Invasion I merely scoffed. Now word is the remake will be a musical worthy of Mel Brooks. Today I am speechless.
For those in need of a refresher, The Giant Spider Invasion was a sci-fi horror movie about meteors from another dimension landing in Wisconsin that crack open to reveal otherworldly spiders, one of which grows to gargantuan proportions. And by gargantuan proportions, I mean it looks like a cheap Mardi Gras float decorated over a Volkswagen. There’s a very good reason why “Mystery Science Theater 3000” had a field day with this movie.
The Giant Spider Invasion is now poised to become a comic musical. I think the only way to better explain this concept is to simply print Rebane’s press release announcing the project in its entirety.
First, an introduction and history: The Giant Spider Invasion was produced in 1975 at a budget of $300,000 and became one of the fifty top grossing films of that year, amassing over 24 million dollars… a phenomenon Johnny Carson thought impressive enough to mention on his late-night program.
The absence of a shooting script and the lack of a special effects budget opened the film to a variety of critiques once it premiered in Dallas and other major cities. Stephen King summed it up well in his book Danse Macabre: “In spite of the title, there is only one giant spider, but we don’t feel cheated because it’s a dilly. It is impossible to see such a budget conscious special effect without feeling a wave of admiration.”
Over the following decades and into the 21st century, because of its campy approach, inventive giant spider and an all-star cast, the film captured more than enough fans worldwide to become a cult classic today. In the business they call “show business”, it matters not if the critiques are good, bad or indifferent. What matters is whether or not a movie has “legs”, so to speak, and “sells tickets”. And that it did. However success is measured, even conservative estimates put the gross over its unequaled shelf life of thirty five years at over 200 million dollars, and demand for the film makes it the most pirated film of its time in the digital medium.
So, what does one do with The Giant Spider Invasion today?
As Mel Brooks would say… “MAKE A MUSICAL!”
This then sets the stage — in the true sense of the word — for some levity on stage and screen with an off-the-wall MUSICAL COMEDY that lovingly reflects on the entire enchilada of The Giant Spider Invasion production.
GET READY FOR…
…musical selections that compliment the Spiderette Chorus Line — who perform to a rousing tarantula tarantella — including “You Don’t Know Rice Crispies from Rabbit Turds”, “What Script? No Script!”, “Scientists in Love”, and “I Am in Bad Monster Movie”!
GET READY FOR…
…the giant spider himself and his signature song “I Know I Am Volkswagen Spider” and movie distributor Abe Schmuck (Mr. Big) who knows that, in Hollywood, “Size Matters”!
GET READY…
…to be entertained from Broadway to the theater stage in Bumfluck, Iowa (wherever that is) to the Big Theater Screen and into the digital medium.
GET READY FOR…
…the politically incorrect presentation of the multimedia musical…
THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION — THE MUSICAL!
It’s got the punch… the legs… the broads… the charms… and the Magic that spell…
ENTERTAINMENT!
Words fail me. All I can muster myself to write at this point is to state for the record that any musical that boasts a musical number set to a song titled “You Don’t Know Rice Crispies from Rabbit Turds” gets my full endorsement.
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Question: who does kevin murphy play in scary monsters

Answer: Tom Servo

who does kevin murphy play in scary monsters

Question: who is the voice of tom in scary monsters

Answer: Rebane

who is the voice of tom in scary monsters

Question: who hosted the scary monsters festival

Answer: MST3K

Question: where did the mst3k festival take place

Answer: Scary Monsters Magazine

Question: who does the voice of tom in scary monsters

Answer: Kevin Murphy

who does the voice of tom in scary monsters

Question: what magazine did mst3k host

Answer: Scary Monsters

In 2013 , the shell of one of the main giant spiders was reported stolen by Rebane .

Weeks later , a recycling facility announced that the giant spider was brought to them as scrap metal .

UPDATED: Wed 4:44 PM, Aug 28, 2013
Schultz Recycling in Merrill says the parts of the giant spider from the “Great Spider Invasion” film were bought to their facility weeks ago as scrap metal.
The business could not say who brought the item in to be scrapped as there is an on-going investigation.
The film's director Bill Rebane told the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department the movie prop belonged to him; all though it hasn't yet been verified. Rebane is the person reported the theft.
ORIGINAL STORY: Wed 11:22 AM, Aug 28, 2013
The star of the 1975 film “The Giant Spider Invasion” has been reported as stolen.
The shell of the spider was kept at a property on County Highway J between Irma and Gleason in Lincoln County. The spider's shell is mounted on an old Volkswagon chassis, and the only way to move it would be using a flatbed trailer.
Bill Rebane, the film's director, said the spider was last seen a few weeks ago on trailer in Merill's sixth ward.
“The Giant Spider Invasion” was filmed in Merrill and surrounding areas like Gleason.
If you have any information contact the Lincoln County Crimestoppers at (715) 536-6272.

Question: who stole the shell of a giant spider

Answer: Rebane

Question: when was the shell of one of the giant spider reported stolen

Answer: 2013

Question: what was the giant spider brought to the recycling facility for

Answer: scrap metal

Question: where was the giant spider found

Answer: a recycling facility

Question: why was the spider brought to the recycling facility

Answer: as scrap metal

why was the spider brought to the recycling facility

Question: where did the giant spider get its shell

Answer: recycling facility

where did the giant spider get its shell

Question: what part of the spider was stolen

Answer: shell

Question: what kind of spider was stolen from a recycling facility

Answer: giant spiders

what kind of spider was stolen from a recycling facility


thumb|Mabel E. Cahill, from an 1892 publication.
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships.

Early life and family

Mabel Cahill was born on 2 April 1863 in the family home of Ballyragget House, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, the twelfth child of thirteen born into her family. She had 5 sisters and 7 brothers. Being part of this society resulted in having social events held by the upper class. In this case, tennis parties. During this time, it was quite uncommon for women to obtain a secondary level school degree however it has been recorded that Mabel attended Roscrea School with two of her brothers, a fee paying school. There is strong evidence to suggest that Mabel and two of her sisters enrolled in Sacred Heart Convent Secondary School.

After school, Mabel moved from her family town of Ballyraggett to the city of Dublin in the year of 1886. At this point she then took part in a club that played lawn tennis which would then spark her love for the sport. Three years after moving to Dublin, Mabel then decided to emigrate to America via the ship, the SS Arizona which departed from Liverpool and landed in the USA where she took up residency in New York City at the age of 29.

Career
Cahill won the Orange Club ladies championship in 1890 and 1891. Cahill became the first foreign woman to win a major tournament when she defeated Ellen Roosevelt in the 1891 US Championships women's final at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. She also won the Mixed Doubles event alongside M.R. Wright, though at the time this was not listed as an official event. She successfully defended her women's singles title in 1892 and also won the women's doubles title with Adeline McKinlay and the mixed doubles title with Clarence Hobart. She did not defend her titles in 1893.

Grand Slam finals
Singles (2 titles)

ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin  1891  U.S. Championships  Grass   Ellen Roosevelt  6–4, 6–1, 4–6, 6–3Win  1892  U.S. Championships  Grass   Elisabeth Moore  5–7, 6–3, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2

Doubles (2 titles)

ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin  1891  U.S. Championships  Grass   Emma Leavitt-Morgan   Ellen Roosevelt Grace Roosevelt  2–6, 8–6, 6–4Win  1892  U.S. Championships  Grass   Adeline McKinlay    Helen Day Harris Amy Reeve Williams  6–1, 6–3

Mixed doubles (1 title)

ResultYearChampionship SurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin  1892  U.S. Championships  Grass   Clarence Hobart   Elisabeth Moore   Rodmond Beach  6–1, 6–3

 Later life and death
Cahill also attempted to start a career as a writer during her time in America. She wrote a romantic novel called Her Playthings: Men which was published in 1891 but it was not successful. She tried to write shorter stories, Carved in marble and Purple Sparkling but they too were not well received. In 1893 she contributed two articles to the Ladies' Home Journal named The art of playing good tennis and Arranging a tennis tournament, respectively.  She also performed as a chorus girl in music halls.Manchester Evening News: "A Chorus Girl's County Court Claim", 2 February 1899, p 5. Her later years were troubled, and she died on 2 February 1905 at the Ormskirk Union Workhouse. She was buried in Ormskirk on 6 February.

After her death, in 1936, the Irish Lawn Tennis Association placed an advert in the national press asking that a representative of hers could come forward to collect a gold medallion struck to honour her achievements in tennis in America. It is not known if the medallion was collected. In 1976, Cahill was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where she is the only Irish representative.

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She had 5 sisters and 7 brothers.

Mabel Cahill was born on 2 April 1863 in the family home of Ballyragget House , Ballyragget , County Kilkenny , the twelfth child of thirteen born into her family .

IT WAS A Saturday morning, the first day of August in 1936, when a notice appeared on page 17 of The Irish Independent newspaper.
While there was substantial preview material pertaining to the following afternoon’s Connaught football final between Mayo and Galway, it was the upcoming Summer Olympics in Berlin that dominated the sports section.
The paper had sent a columnist to Germany and his first report detailed his voyage from Ireland’s west coast to the host city via Bremen. While docked there, he noted how the ship’s arrival had been greeted with much celebration by the locals, describing the ‘bashful young brothers in the inevitable khaki shorts of German Youth gathered at the quayside’.
Commenting on the general Olympic mood, he mentioned the bunting and decorations that lined the streets.
“Every private house flew its swastika flag, and so it was with each town that we passed en route to the German capital.”
The eeriness continued further down the page.
Buried at the bottom, alongside some tennis results from the Munster Championship event in Roscrea and under the headline, ‘Medal For Irish Woman’, was a brief call for assistance from the Irish Lawn Tennis Association.
Will Miss Mabel E. Cahill, the winner of the Women’s United States Singles Championship in 1891 and 1892, or her representatives, kindly communicate with the hon. sec of the ILTA, 91 Merrion Square, Dublin, relative to a gold medallion which can be claimed on her behalf.”
Nobody ever picked up the gold medallion.
The award was the brainchild of the United States LTA who wished to recognise Cahill’s achievements and significant impact on the sport. But, unsure of her whereabouts, they contacted their Irish counterparts to try and find either her or a family member. Eventually, Cahill’s niece came forward but, by that stage, it was too late to claim it. However, she did receive a number of the trophies Cahill had earned for winning the US Open Singles, Doubles and Mixed championships in the 1890s.
And still, through the very public attempts to find her, Cahill remained a ghost. An international phenomenon and Ireland’s greatest ever tennis player, she’d seemingly vanished without a trace at the turn of the 20th century.
Unbeknownst to everyone, she had died – in tragic circumstances – in 1905.
Throughout the subsequent decades, there were some vague, throwaway references to Cahill, that ‘mysterious’ tennis star. Then, in 1976, the latest inductees to the International Hall of Fame were announced in Newport, Rhode Island.
The shortlist boasted plenty of heavyweights: Rene Lacoste, seven-time Grand Slam winner. Henri Cochet, another seven-time Grand Slam winner. Jacques Brugnon, a six-time Grand Slam winner. Jean Borotra, a five-time Grand Slam winner. Dick Savitt, a two-time Grand Slam winner.
There was one woman: Mabel Cahill, the Kilkenny native who, between 1891 and 1892, won five US Open titles.
Then walked away.
“The legend of Mabel Esmonde Cahill never fully developed and she remains one of the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s great mysteries,” says the award’s official website, while acknowledging Cahill’s ‘tennis history is thin, albeit prosperous’. Even the image accompanying her biography is one of only two surviving photographs.
The record books fill in some of the blanks.
In 1890, shortly after arriving in New York, Cahill reached the semi-finals of the US National Women’s Singles Championship but had to retire because of injury in the third set against Ellen Roosevelt, a cousin of FDR, who would become the 32nd president of the United States in 1933. Roosevelt went on to claim the title but twelve months later, Cahill returned with a vengeance. In an earlier round, she beat Roosevelt’s sister, Grace, and then made no mistake when she faced Ellen in the decider. Partnering with Emma Fellowes-Morgan, she enjoyed further success over the Roosevelt siblings in the doubles final.
The following year, Cahill repeated the trick and saw off a 16-year-old opponent named Bessie Moore after an exhaustive five-set thriller. The New York Times later trumpeted Cahill as ‘the best player in the country’ and she tasted success once more by racking up another doubles win, this time with Adeline McKinley as her partner. But what made 1892 a particularly remarkable experience for Cahill was that the US Open finally granted championship status to a mixed doubles event. So, with Clarence Hobart alongside her, Cahill enjoyed a clean sweep, and got the better of Moore and Rodmond Beach in straight sets.
Now courting a degree of celebrity, she was the subject of media interest. One piece ran with a headline of, ‘The Champion Lady Tennis Player of the United States’ and offered this as its opening gambit.
Miss Mabel Cahill, the champion lady tennis player of America, is a petite, attractive brunette, with short black hair, and the brightest of grey eyes, full of life and spirits. Although a champion of America, she is a daughter of Erin, born in Dublin. Her present home is in a pretty little house up-town near the park, New York having been her residence since leaving Dublin about four years ago.”
Miss Cahill was too modest to admit that she defeats, with few exceptions, her male opponents. The principal feature of Miss Cahill’s playing is her activity. On the tennis court she seems to be everywhere at once and her opponents find it difficult to place a ball out of her reach. She has a remarkably powerful backhand stroke, which often carries confusion across the net. Those who have never seen her play can form no idea of the dash and spirit she puts into her game.”
Then, just like that – despite the success, the support, the adulation – she stopped. And that was the sum of her story. She disappeared and slipped into folklore until January 2016 when a man by the name of Mark Ryan opened up his computer, logged into his Tennis Forum profile and published a staggering account of Cahill’s life. Clocking in at over 15,000 words, it is an absorbing, enthralling and ultimately heartbreaking piece of research, which begins with Cahill’s upbringing in Kilkenny as the 12th child in a family of 13.
Her father was a barrister who had attended Stoneyhurst College in Lancashire and then Trinity College and the family home was Ballyconra House. Cahill received a full education and was a student at the Sacred Heart Convent Secondary School in Roscrea. But, by the time she left there at the age of seventeen, she was already an orphan.
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Still, her background as the daughter of a wealthy, respected member of the local community, ensured a particular social standing and with tennis proving an immensely popular recreational activity in Ireland, she began to dabble and get a taste of it. She competed at various local and regional tournaments and progressed to appear at the deeply-prestigious competition at Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square. But despite her love for the game, she was competitive rather than a prodigy. Which made the next period of her life all the more staggering.
According to Ryan, Cahill emigrated to New York in October 1889. And by the summer of the following year, she was already attracting media attention owing to her sporting prowess.
In a local newspaper feature, ‘Miss Cahill’ was described as ‘a young lady who has made her name famous as a tennis player’.
“She is a slight and rather delicate-looking girl, yet the severity of her play is the terror of opponents of her own sex,” opined the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
She was already a member of the New York Tennis Club and, having reached the finals of both the women’s and mixed doubles in the club’s own tournament in 1890, began putting herself forward for national competitions, like the US Championship.
Cahill’s talents aside, tennis boasted an irresistible and intoxicating social pull too. From a privileged background, she appeared captivated by the circles the sport placed her in, something that began back home and then continued, with interest, in Manhattan.
“The most important event in which I contested abroad was the international tournament at Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin,’ she told one newspaper after her spectacular back-to-back triumphs in 1891 and 1892.
“Fitzwilliam Square is in the heart of the most fashionable part of the city, surrounded by aristocratic residences, and tournaments held there are always social events.”
In New York, Cahill had been a fixture at her local courts in Central Park and, as a result, was surrounded by an army of movers, shakers and social climbers. As Ryan’s research revealed, one known residence for Cahill during her time in the city was 3-7, East 62nd Street, which sits between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue. Nestled deep in the Upper East Side, it remains a salubrious address and has always appealed to a certain kind of tenant. In 1890, a seven-storey limestone mansion was built for John Drexel, grandson of the illustrious Philadelphia financier, at 1 East 62nd Street. In the summer of 2015, a four-bedroom, 5,000 square-foot apartment in the building – that had belonged to comedian Joan Rivers for 25 years – was sold for $24 million.
Having inherited a sizeable amount of her father’s estate, Cahill easily fitted in to the smart set. But, with tennis an amateur sport, she needed another source of income. In keeping with the romanticism of her situation, she dabbled in writing and even landed a publishing deal. In 1891, her first novel was released: Her Playthings, Men, a commentary on aristocratic idiosyncrasies, didn’t make much of an impact though she did produce two other works. Still, her literary career wasn’t a lucrative enterprise and when she pulled back completely from the tennis circuit in 1893, it wasn’t too long before the money seemed to run out and her story began to slide towards a bleak conclusion.
By April, 1897, Cahill had swapped New York for London but her circumstances had changed substantially.
Certainly, she was experiencing financial problems, as evidenced by a stint at the infirmary attached to the Liverpool Road Workhouse in Islington. She still continued to write, but also began a radically different professional path too and appeared in local music halls as a performer. Illustrating her monetary woes, she brought a case against a theatre producer in 1899, alleging she was owed £5 after a three-week stint as a chorus girl in a production of Aladdin in the Liverpool district of Bootle. Given it hadn’t been long since she’d been living alongside Central Park and busily immersed in the dizzying echelons of the New York social scene, she was now chasing pantomime producers all the way to a courtroom just to get paid.
The decline was rapid.
Cahill eventually, and unsurprisingly, left London. But, despite her struggles and proximity, never seemed interested in returning home, though she got relatively close. She settled in the north-west of England, in the seaside town of Southport, a 45-minute drive from Liverpool and almost directly across the Irish Sea from Dublin. The relocation was possibly work-related, with Cahill’s new location close to the developing area of Blackpool and its burgeoning entertainment hub. But the move may also have been because of her deteriorating health.
The details surrounding her death – expertly sourced and detailed by Ryan – are harrowing. In February 1905, she was just 41 years of age and had contracted tuberculosis of the larynx. Her final months were spent away from Southport, in the smaller nearby town of Ormskirk, where she had been admitted to the Union Workhouse, an inevitably distressing environment.
Across from the female infirmary, where Cahill would have been, was a space reserved for ‘mental cases’ while the building also catered for ‘passing vagrants’ who needed a bed for the night.
Her death certificate listed her occupation as journalist and she was buried in the Anglican Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It remains a mystery if anyone was present for her funeral, other than the local curate. Considering Cahill’s circumstances, it’s likely she was given a pauper’s burial and laid to rest in an unmarked grave.
No headstone, no name, no trace and with her spectacular tennis achievements forgotten – along with her – for generations.
Mark Ryan’s forensic and fascinating biography of Mabel Cahill can be viewed here.
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