This is gonna be like Tremors and the spiders are gonna take the phones out. #Monsterdon

Shatner shoveling spiders is pretty amazing stuff

#monsterdon

@brooke Well they webbed Colby, somehow #monsterdon

No gloves and handling toxic insecticide? That man is dying one way or another, but the spiders will be faster. #Monsterdon

I wondered where I recognized the mom in the movie -- she's in The Day Time Ended

#steakmilk

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shat's been bit like three times now? is he really gonna not succumb and die over the course of this film? come on. #monsterdon

Yes, spiders, conquer all modes of motorized transportation!

#monsterdon

Well there went the love triangle. And any chance Dr Ashley would run away with Rack's sister in law.

#Monsterdon

Ok now we’re reaching a reasonable number of spiders for a movie about spiders #monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

OK, but is the Travco infested? Somebody needs to protect the Travco. #Monsterdon

@jonny I choose to believe it’s now vengeance. #monsterdon

People really can't seem to decide whether the spiders are terrifying or annoying. #Monsterdon

@socketwench I can see the Mentour Pilot episode now

"The first officer was relatively inexperienced, a 13-week-old American tarantula with only about 250 hours of flight time"

#Monsterdon

Diane needs to get Dr. Kiss to help #monsterdon

One away from Bingo...
#Monsterdon

Set the truck on fire! #Monsterdon

the most effective spider countermeasure is to just sorta brush them off #monsterdon

I guess it’s a good thing ol’ Rack has a new love interest. 😬 #monsterdon

Obligatory mention of Nyffeler & Birkhofer 2017, "An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community" (open access) https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1

which the press ran with as "spiders could theoretically eat every human on earth in a year" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/

#Monsterdon

Well, they got the romantic spare outta the way, now Shat can creep on the entomologist without breaking any rules. >_> #Monsterdon

The spiders under the swing is scary! And an act of bravery, mama. Well done. ✅ #Monsterdon

These spiders are true terror!!! Fear them!! Also you can just brush them away
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon “The spiders are killing the doll!” “It’s practice!”

Oh the mishaps just keep getting better and better. #Monsterdon

That entire scene had the same energy as Porkchop Sandwiches #Monsterdon

Moundpolcalypse!

Plus a man not listening to the doctor.
#Monsterdon

"MY BABYYYY"

Classic.

#Monsterdon

That musical sting is comically loud.
Glad she was shooting at the spiders...
#Monsterdon #KingdomoftheSpiders

This is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. #Monsterdon

Yeah, I live on the swing now.

#Monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

I mean, I'd be more freaked if it wasn't tarantulas. They are slow AF

#Monsterdon

no, i'll just sit here on this swing till i die, like that guy in Tremors. absolutely not. #monsterdon

How much ammo did she have that she thought shooting at the spiders would help? #Monsterdon

Oh look, guns don't work on spiders scene after all?

#Monsterdon

Spider sandwiches!

#monsterdon

Holy shit she shot her own hand apart!! And made the same noise I do when I stifle a sneeze

#Monsterdon

I'd better get the girls and bring them into town.

The town where we just exploded a tank of poison gas.

#monsterdon

Sexy operator wasn’t on my list for this movie. #Monsterdon

Little girl: "I"m not hungry! I filled up on spiders!"

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

That finger shot off was totally ridiculous

#monsterdon

Spiders are dominant on land, and are winning the air war, too

#monsterdon

GAH WHAT THE HELL BIRCH #monsterdon

Ok now we have "guns prove ineffective" for certain

#Monsterdon

ma'am-- ouch. #monsterdon

Good 'splosion #monsterdon

Yes, run *towards* the plane crash/gas station fire/pesticide spill. What could possibly go wrong?

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

#Monsterdon that finger had it comin

See? One of the spiders was on the control stick, trying to bring in the plane for a safe landing. Unfortunately, tarantulas have poor eyesight, and only one of them was VFR rated...

#monsterdon

Face it. The town can’t outsmart these spiders who are now behaving preemptively #monsterdon

Okay the pilot bit was funny as hell. #Monsterdon

Oops, spider fingers.

#Monsterdon

Huh. Really good plane stunt. I can't tell if that was just a plane flying past the shed as it explodes or if it was a like half scale plane crashing in.
#Monsterdon #KingdomoftheSpiders

Shooting spiders, sure, why not
#Monsterdon

Why would you stand in a burning gas station? #monsterdon

Wait in entomology school do they really cover the "many theories" about what would happen if "the insect world turns on man?"

#Monsterdon

This is a method of killing spiders that I approve of. #monsterdon

It’s no use, he’s dead…and is that supposed to be a spider? It looks like an amoeba. Well now I’m glad he’s dead for his crimes against art. #monsterdon

Oh, I've seen this one before #Monsterdon

Shoot the spiders. That'll teach them. #Monsterdon

This movie’s entire budget went to the stunt pilot.

#KingdomOfTheSpiders #Monsterdon

First webbing of a victim and it’s halfway through the movie.

#monsterdon

Some beam weapons would come in handy, just saying. #Monsterdon

She shot the spider off her hand!!
Could have just shaken it off!!!
But awesome!!!!

🦖#Monsterdon

Someone get these m-fing spiders off my plane!

#Monsterdon

"Somebody call the fire department"

"It's no use… he's dead"

What is it exactly that you think the fire department does, Shat?

#Monsterdon

right into the gas station what a coincidence

#monsterdon

lololol parathion is solublized in volatile solvents like hexane and xylene. And they're just gonna stand there and watch it burn? OK FOLKS.

#monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

yeah, let's just stand around while this flaming plane just sits here in this gas station. #monsterdon

Ace pilots are known for their high-pitched squeals

#monsterdon

#monsterdon I'm upset the spiders may have died in that crash.

Stand behind the gas pumps - you'll be safe there

#monsterdon
#KingdomOfTheSpiders

OK there are surprisingly many spiders stowing away in the plane

They're quite chill about it too

#Monsterdon

honestly that's a pretty fun movie death

#monsterdon

Her calling him "stupid" is only fair, since he called her "honey".
#Monsterdon
#kingdomofthespiders

Pilot sounds like a rooster as he kamikaze bombs the town and releases chemical weapons. #Monsterdon

Based on how he drew the spider on the side of his plane, he probably doesn't even know what those things are. #monsterdon

yes!

#monsterdon

you do not want to be running into the flaming ball of aerosolized DDT #monsterdon

Aaaaand we're back to _B. smithi_ again (in the airplane).

(Well, probably _B. hamorii_ but at the time they certainly thought they were working with _B. smithi_ so let's go with that.)

#Monsterdon

So far Kingdom of the Spiders ranks about 7 out of 10 on the "rooting for the monster" scale

#Monsterdon

boom! nice. #monsterdon

Shoutout to the pilot for screaming like a little girl for a solid five minutes on camera. #Monsterdon

pilot's squeaky scream makes me laugh #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I think one of the spiders was guiding the stick. Crafty little suckers.

CALLED IT. #monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

He doesn't even know how to do a proper Wilhelm Scream #monsterdon

And suddenly the spiders learn to fly the plane.

#monsterdon

hahaah DDT town!

#monsterdon

Get these mother fucking spiders off my mother fucking airplane! #monsterdon

Who let Ned Flanders fly that plane?!

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

That's the worst drawing of a spider I've ever seen in my life, what the fucking hell #monsterdon

Well they told y'all spraying would never work #Monsterdon

That was not the sound I expected dude to make. #Monsterdon

That little girl is marked.
The spider is going to dust her for the dirt bath he got.
#monsterdon

Oh come on those spiders aren’t even touching skin on that pilot. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Bro got that sissy scream

Or the sharp stop at the end of his flight.
. #monsterdon #KingdomOfTheSpiders

"Come back here!" Gotta hand it to the spider chassing an airplane. #monsterdon

I mean, who get tan lines on their _forehead_? this guy!

#monsterdon #KingdomeOfTheSpiders

looks down, sees legs covered in spiders > screams like a girl. #ItMe #monsterdon