‘Blood-curdling! Hair-raising! Backbone-chilling!’
Ein Toter hing im Netz (‘A Corpse Hung within the Internet’) is a 1960 West German sci-fi horror movie directed by Fritz Böttger [as Jaime Nolan] and produced by Wolf C. Hartwig (The Head, Useless Attractive, Bloody Moon).
The movie was dubbed and launched in the USA by Pacemaker Footage as It’s Scorching in Paradise (generally marketed as simply Scorching in Paradise) in March 1962.
It was later re-issued by Pacemaker in November 1965 in a 75-minute edited ‘horror’ model titled Horrors of Spider Island. It was additionally launched in the USA as The Spider’s Internet and Ladies of Spider Island.
Pacemaker Footage specialised in releasing European imported films, bolstered by their lurid advert campaigns, reminiscent of The Slaughter of the Vampires, Terror-Creatures from the Grave and Bloody Pit of Horror.
Blu-ray launch:
Horrors of Spider Island was launched on Blu-ray by Severin Movies on Could twenty sixth 2020 with each the unique, uncut model, scanned from the unfavourable and the alternate U.S. model (as It’s Scorching in Paradise), scanned from a low-con movie print. Particular options:
Horrors of Spider Island – authentic, uncut model of the movie
It’s Scorching in Paradise – U.S. edit of the movie
The Historical past of Spider Island with Professor Physician Marcus Stiglegger
Audio interview with actor Alexander D’Arcy by movie historian David Del Valle
Alternate clothed scenes
Trailer
Blu-ray assessment:
Severin lastly provides followers of this sleazy trash basic the possibility to see the unique uncut German model in superior high quality (albeit with just a few blemishes that add to the retro aesthetic), together with its transient scenes of nudity! The glimpses of pulchritude are hardly earth-shattering and really tame and but they supply a significantly better viewing expertise for many who crave the actual exploitation deal. Even the shorter It’s Scorching in Paradise English language model is healthier high quality than all earlier DVD incarnations which may be donated to your native charity store.
There’s additionally the choice to look at the film in its authentic language with English subtitles which gives a totally completely different, extra critical tackle the shenanigans that happen on the island versus the hilarious worldwide dubbed model.
It’s a disgrace Severin couldn’t discover an exploitation sinema knowledgeable or two to supply a vigorous audio commentary. Nonetheless, we do get an informative fifteen-minute video overview of the film (‘The Historical past of Spider Island’) and German cinema of the period by the relatively dapper Professor Physician Marcus Stiglegger who’s fortunately not the dry tutorial kind that generally gives disc extras. Producer Wolf C. Hartwig’s in depth oeuvre is talked about – it contains the equally trashy 1959 movie The Head and the dodgy 70s Schoolgirl Report collection – plus some amusing particulars about star Alexander D’Arcy’s various dalliances within the film trade. Actor Rainer Brandt’s notorious alternate dubbing profession can be talked about wherein he ad-libbed dialogue with typically sexist strains.
Horror historian David Del Valle – who admits having by no means seen the film on the time – gives a quick (two and a half minutes) audio interview with actor Alexander D’Arcy wherein the latter claims that director Fritz Böttger had no thought what he was doing so he needed to step in and help with giving tips to the amateurish actresses!
Evidently, this Severin Blu-ray launch is very welcome.
Adrian J Smith, MOVIES and MANIA
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“The producers had been clearly aiming for nothing greater than unabashed unashamed exploitation. They did an amazing job! The spider make-up covers solely the man’s fingers and face, but it surely seems to be each actual and scary […] The spider resembles these of Cat-Girls of the Moon or Missile to the Moon, but it surely’s smaller and has an evil face.” David Elroy Goldweber, Claws & Saucers
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‘It’s Scorching in Paradise makes extra sense as a title. The horror is only a distraction, this complete movie is about getting trapped on a desert island with a bunch of younger dancing ladies like buxom Barbara Valentin to flesh out a wild orgy. In different phrases all the level of the movie is what was minimize out of it for this model’. Apocalypse Later
“It has buxom Teutonic babes in (barely) skimpy swimwear lounging round being all horny and infrequently stepping into hair-pulling girl-fights, it has hunky males in search of love in all of the fallacious bikini bottoms, and it has a tropical setting filled with azure lagoons and comfortable beachside cabins. And for some inexplicable purpose it additionally has horrible mutant killer spider-people-thingies who need to homicide all of them and eat their flesh!” Million Monkey Theater
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