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So we were in a pawn shop the other day and came across this made for TV movie, called Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo. It was only $2.65 (CAN) so we were like what the heck, it'll give us a good laugh. And that it did.
The movie is about these guys who are bringing back tons of coffee beans from Ecuador back to the States and unbeknownst to them, there isn't just coffee in the burlap sacs...dun dun dun!
So their plane goes down because the pilot gets bit by a B. smithi and dies. Yes, you read that right...a smithi...and he dies. Anyway, so basically now this small town (where the plane landed) is now infested with B. smithis and MM Aphonopelma sp. Oh no. So countless people die and so on. They finally catch one of the T's (a smithi) and brings it to some scientist guy, who then goes on to say that it isn't a "true tarantula"...it's a Phoneutria nigriventer, the deadliest spider on earth (according to them). This is after this woman says "there are no such thing as poisonous tarantulas, right?"
So after that absurdity, they're trying to figure out a way to get all the T's (which have taken over this orange warehouse, because picking oranges is a big thing in this town). Then the main character reads in a book that "Phoneutria, tarantula, enter a state of suspended animation when they hear the flying of the tarantula hawk wasp." Then they get this brilliant idea to play the sound of wasps flying over an amp in the warehouse, which will immobilize the T's and then they can pick them up with long tongs and put them in buckets of alcohol, thus killing them. They lure the T's to this big pile of orange peels covered in bugs, because the scientist guy tells them to do this, since the T's are sure to be hungry and orange peels covered in insects will surely lure ALL of them out. Oh, and there's surely a scene where one B. smithi is eating another one. They used real T's, so I can only imagine how much cannibalism there was.
This movie was ridiculous to say the least, but it's really good for a laugh, so I suggest watching it if you can get a hold of it. Sorry for such a long post, but I figured I'd share. The cover has a picture of a terrifying G. rosea on it (none of which are even in the movie) and the tagline is: Terror has 8 legs. Yeah.
-Cass
The movie is about these guys who are bringing back tons of coffee beans from Ecuador back to the States and unbeknownst to them, there isn't just coffee in the burlap sacs...dun dun dun!
So their plane goes down because the pilot gets bit by a B. smithi and dies. Yes, you read that right...a smithi...and he dies. Anyway, so basically now this small town (where the plane landed) is now infested with B. smithis and MM Aphonopelma sp. Oh no. So countless people die and so on. They finally catch one of the T's (a smithi) and brings it to some scientist guy, who then goes on to say that it isn't a "true tarantula"...it's a Phoneutria nigriventer, the deadliest spider on earth (according to them). This is after this woman says "there are no such thing as poisonous tarantulas, right?"
So after that absurdity, they're trying to figure out a way to get all the T's (which have taken over this orange warehouse, because picking oranges is a big thing in this town). Then the main character reads in a book that "Phoneutria, tarantula, enter a state of suspended animation when they hear the flying of the tarantula hawk wasp." Then they get this brilliant idea to play the sound of wasps flying over an amp in the warehouse, which will immobilize the T's and then they can pick them up with long tongs and put them in buckets of alcohol, thus killing them. They lure the T's to this big pile of orange peels covered in bugs, because the scientist guy tells them to do this, since the T's are sure to be hungry and orange peels covered in insects will surely lure ALL of them out. Oh, and there's surely a scene where one B. smithi is eating another one. They used real T's, so I can only imagine how much cannibalism there was.
This movie was ridiculous to say the least, but it's really good for a laugh, so I suggest watching it if you can get a hold of it. Sorry for such a long post, but I figured I'd share. The cover has a picture of a terrifying G. rosea on it (none of which are even in the movie) and the tagline is: Terror has 8 legs. Yeah.
-Cass
