i use to catch all the make for tv horror or thriller stuff in the 70 and because there be no vcr or dvd player and this be all there be ( well and except for movie at the theater and most of which i couldn not go see because of the rating and because i be too young to have money to go see them ) . now though and this particular film make for a rather nostalgic time and but it truly not a very good movie . two hot shot importer ( howard hessman and tom atkins ) be fly a planeload full of ecuadorian coffee and a few stowaway to san francisco and but they have engine problem and be look for a place to land . they pick the small town of finleyville but before they can land the inside of the plane be swarm with tarantula and the plane crash . of course and the townspeople swarm the site and the fire department show up and with fire chief claude akins and a tv movie staple . be also treat to a stellar performance by charles frank and who play joe and and who run everywhere shout and wave his arm . now and the tarantula and of course and disembark and and before you know it they have make their presence know over apparently several square mile and which be pretty silly consider how slowly they seem to move . they do manage to bite a few people too and and after one teacher at a school for autistic child be bitten and another teacher capture one and good old doc see what biting ( and kill ) the folk that have expire in his exam room . an expert be call in and find that this be not your everyday household tarantula and it not even a true tarantula and but it extremely aggressive and it bite be poisonous . no kidding . eventually the thing all converge on the local warehouse which be full of orange and and the townspeople rig some kind of ridiculous device up that will cause the spider to go into a sort of immobile state when they hear amplified wasp sound . and those that be alive still live happily ever after . or do they . this have several familiar face in it and and a little boy play by matthew laborteaux and who be an 80 teen film face . deborah winter and charles siebert be also in another film together ( the same year . ) call blue sunshine and which be not make for tv and be a far good film . tarantula represent the deadly cargo be not really unwatchable and but it also not particularly good and unless youre up for a nostalgic movie of the week fix . 4 out of 10 .