The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - June 9, 1976

While I do remember seeing television advertising for The Giant Spider Invasion, back when it opened in theaters and drive-ins throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, I did not get to see it. 

Perhaps it was my feeling the movie looked too scary to endure. Perhaps it was the overt cheesiness of the title and the rank cheapness of the footage in the TV spots that had my parents thinking, "No way are we wasting any money on that, young man."

I also remember talking with an acquaintance at school who had seen it and trying to get as many details about the film from him as I could.

It would be the year 1999 or 2000 when I was able to rent the film on home video and be able to give it a watch. Not really worth the wait, to be honest.

Nothing anywhere as exciting as what the poster art shows actually happens in the movie, which is aimless, slow-paced, and jumbled as hell.

But the movie did help create what might be of my all-time favorite episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, "PACKERS WIN THE SUPER BOWL!!!"