MetaFilter posts tagged with Spiders

The Door to Hell

homunculus — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:00:12 -0800

Very cool spiders!!

dov3 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:17:03 -0800

Only Shatner can make Satanists melt

Astro Zombie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:09:26 -0800

All hail 70s-era Shatner! He began his career with some rather prestigious projects, appearing in The Brothers Karamazov and Judgment at Nuremberg, as well as some rather high profile appearance in Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But even then, there were hints of exploitation, such as 1961's The Explosive Generation, in which Shatner played a teacher whose job is endangered when she speaks candidly to kids about sex. And there was 1962's The Intruder, a Roger Corman film from 1963 in which Shatner played a carpetbagging racist inciting violence in a southern town. (Clip.) And, of course, there was Incubus from 1965, a horror film in Esperanto. (Clip.) But, after Star Trek, at the start of the 70s, something went haywire. Let us begin with Big Bad Mama, from 1974, a Corman ripoff of Bonnie and Clyde that featured Angie Dickenson played a moonshiner with desperate daughter and Shatner as a gambler made bervous by machine guns. (Preview.) Also in 1974, Shatner starred in Impulse as a con man who murders women. (See him kill Karate Pete.) The following year, he starred in The Devil's Rain, which put him toe toe toe with satanists. (Watch Shatner scream; Ooh, they melt!) What could be worse? Well, you could have Shatner fighting spiders. (Review; clip) Or you could have him wear an atrocious toupee and leisure suits to narrate and appear throughout a pseudoscientific documentary about aliens from space. (Summary.) Or you could simply find him in a series of made for television disaster movies. And did you think he couldn't ruin his own great episode of Twilight Zone? Think again.

Best of the webs

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:31:09 -0800

Them's some big webs!

intoxication

nickyskye — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:32:43 -0800

Unusual ways of getting high: deliberately being bitten on the tongue by a cobra; injecting spider venom.

Protégez-Vous

Partial Law — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:36:42 -0800

An absolutely terrifying new anti-AIDS campaign has been introduced in France. Not safe for work or arachnophobes.

not for arachnophobes

nickyskye — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:50:44 -0800

Spiders [nsfw]. A weird animated short by the Danish artist Christen Bach via aniBOOM.

Visit Australia!

weretable and the undead chairs — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:28:30 -0800

Australia is well known for having more than it's share of dangerous wildlife. However only a few examples are well known outside of the continent. The funnelweb spider might be Australia's most infamous horror. But the redback (a relative of the American black widow) and mouse spider both deserve your respect as well. Long hyped as causing severe ulceration, the reputation of the white-tailed spider might not be as deserved but is still a spider of concern. (more inside...)

All You Need Is Love

Freen — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:19:32 -0800

All You Need Is Love. Sometimes, love is all you need. Or maybe aerosolized MDMA
[via longbough]

Aren't there bears "outside"?

jonson — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:19:52 -0800

Nature is so fucking horrible.