(Some Spoilers) Trecking through the broiling and impassable Muerto Desert in Mexico Grant & Doreen, Robert Knapp & Mary Hill, are picked up by a local Mexican/American oil survey team and driven, suffering from heat exhaustion, back to camp. Grant coming back to his senses starts to tell Dr. Tucker ,Allen Nixon,what they went through the last few days. As we see and hear Grant tells his story the camera slowly pans to the jeep driver who brought them to the camp Pepe, Chris-Pin Martin, who together with the movies narrator Lyle Talbot take up the narration of the story that Grant is telling us. This makes no sense at all since what we see in Grants story he could not have possibly known.
The story goes back over a year about Dr. Masterson, Harmon Stevens, the worlds foremost organelle theosophist, who got involved drugged escaped and eventually brought back with a plane load of hostages, through mind control, to the crazed Dr. Aranya, Jackie Coogen. Having his laboratory hidden in the caves of the Zarpa Masa Mountain Dr. Aranya had been experimenting with both human and incests pituitary glands and was using both human and spider hormone's to create a super human race. Like with most movie mad scientists DR. Aranya's experiments went a bit off center with the women turning into superwomen but the men that the doctor tried his serum on became dwarfs.
Taken captive on a airplane by the now mind numbed Dr. Masterson, after he escaped from the sanitarium, and flown back to the Zarpa Masa where besides Grant, who was the pilot, and Doreen there were also Doreen's fiancé Jan Van Croft, Nico Lek, Masterson's attendant at the sanitarium George (George Berrows) and Mr. Wu, Samuel Wu, Van Croft's valet.
The movie ran it's predictable course with Dr. Aranya's lab and insane experiments, the Spiper Women and tiny men, destroyed by a awakened and courageous Dr. Masterson who blew the place up with a chemical bomb that he made. Grant & Dooreen end up escaping into the desert where we saw them at the beginning of the movie. Wu was killed by the Spider Women, as was George and Van Roft who were killed by this giant tarantula, that looked like a stuffed Teddy Bear, that fell or that someone off camera threw on them.
As we get back to the present Grant after telling "his story" gets very hysterical and tells the oil men to bring a truck load of oil barrels to the Zarpa Masa. He wants to lite and burn and thus destroy Aranya's and the monsters that he created. You wonder if the desert didn't cook or fry Grant's brain since he just told us a moment before that Aranya his lab and creations were all destroyed by Dr. Masterson? Former child star Jackie Coogan who played the madman Dr. Aranya looked a lot in the movie like Albert Dekker looked in the movie "Dr. Cyclops".
The women in the film like the sexy Tarantella,Tandra Quinn,looked like well endowed and very attractive women and not anything like spiders or Spider Women and the men that were the result of Dr. Aranya's failed experiments looked like the extras playing the Munchkins in the movie "Wizard of Oz".
The story goes back over a year about Dr. Masterson, Harmon Stevens, the worlds foremost organelle theosophist, who got involved drugged escaped and eventually brought back with a plane load of hostages, through mind control, to the crazed Dr. Aranya, Jackie Coogen. Having his laboratory hidden in the caves of the Zarpa Masa Mountain Dr. Aranya had been experimenting with both human and incests pituitary glands and was using both human and spider hormone's to create a super human race. Like with most movie mad scientists DR. Aranya's experiments went a bit off center with the women turning into superwomen but the men that the doctor tried his serum on became dwarfs.
Taken captive on a airplane by the now mind numbed Dr. Masterson, after he escaped from the sanitarium, and flown back to the Zarpa Masa where besides Grant, who was the pilot, and Doreen there were also Doreen's fiancé Jan Van Croft, Nico Lek, Masterson's attendant at the sanitarium George (George Berrows) and Mr. Wu, Samuel Wu, Van Croft's valet.
The movie ran it's predictable course with Dr. Aranya's lab and insane experiments, the Spiper Women and tiny men, destroyed by a awakened and courageous Dr. Masterson who blew the place up with a chemical bomb that he made. Grant & Dooreen end up escaping into the desert where we saw them at the beginning of the movie. Wu was killed by the Spider Women, as was George and Van Roft who were killed by this giant tarantula, that looked like a stuffed Teddy Bear, that fell or that someone off camera threw on them.
As we get back to the present Grant after telling "his story" gets very hysterical and tells the oil men to bring a truck load of oil barrels to the Zarpa Masa. He wants to lite and burn and thus destroy Aranya's and the monsters that he created. You wonder if the desert didn't cook or fry Grant's brain since he just told us a moment before that Aranya his lab and creations were all destroyed by Dr. Masterson? Former child star Jackie Coogan who played the madman Dr. Aranya looked a lot in the movie like Albert Dekker looked in the movie "Dr. Cyclops".
The women in the film like the sexy Tarantella,Tandra Quinn,looked like well endowed and very attractive women and not anything like spiders or Spider Women and the men that were the result of Dr. Aranya's failed experiments looked like the extras playing the Munchkins in the movie "Wizard of Oz".