User:Brian Kurtz/To Do

Rise of the Spiders
In the quiet mining town of Prosperity, Arizona, an accident involving a rabbit causes a barrel of toxic waste to land in a reservoir. An exotic spider farmer named Joshua Taft has been making regular visits to the site, where he collects crickets for his spiders. Although the spiders have ingested the toxins, he is oblivious since the arachnids seem unaffected. Joshua shows Mike Parker, a local boy, his collection, which include jumping spiders, trapdoor spiders, tarantulas, and orb-weavers, including a female orb-weaver named Consuela. After Mike leaves, Joshua is bitten by an escaped tarantula and accidentally knocks down the spider cages. He is killed by the spiders and, after devouring him, the spiders grow to even huger proportions.

On his way home, Mike is accosted by his mother, Sheriff Samantha Parker and Deputy Pete Willis pulling the toxic barrel out of the pond. At this point, Sam also berates her teenage daughter Ashley for cavorting about with a reckless motorcycle-riding boy named Bret. She later gives Ashley a stun gun for protection. Wade, the Mayor of Prosperity, is holding a town meeting in the mall about whether they should sell the mines and relocate. He tells them that the Vironanol Corporation is offering a lot of money to help facilitate the relocation efforts so they can gobble up the land. Chris McCormick, whose father owned the mines before he died ten years earlier, shows up at the meeting and stands against Wade's proposition. Chris reunites with Samantha, with whom he has always harbored unrequited feelings towards.

Meanwhile, Harlan Griffith, an eccentric extraterrestrial enthusiast, is broadcasting his theory that various missing pets around town have been abducted by extraterrestrials. Inevitably his theory is dismissed as the product of a deranged imagination.

Mike sneaks out on foot to find Joshua but finds the spiders missing, the farm covered in webbing, and the dead body of Joshua. Although he sees an enormous spider shadow in the mines and tells Chris that the spiders have grown to enormous sizes, based on a giant spider leg he found at the mine entrance, Chris disbelieves his story. Meanwhile, the mines have reopened with the miners searching for a famous gold lode.

Attack on Prosperity
One miner named Leon is eaten by a gigantic spider, whose clan has made the mines their home. Seeing as the entire town is connected in some way to the mines, spiders show up in many different places. Pete's cat has a fight with one of the spiders in the air vents before being eaten, and some of the ostriches on Wade's farm are devoured by trapdoor Spiders.

Sam's daughter Ashley goes on a date with Bret, but when Bret gets a little too frisky, she zaps him in the crotch with a stun gun, causing him to urinate himself. She takes off in the truck, leaving Bret alone with bike.

Bret and his motorcyclist friends are chased by jumping spiders, with him being the only survivor. During this harrowing incident, a truck driver veers off the road, slamming into a power pole, accidentally cutting off the telephone lines in the town.

Chris finds out that his Aunt Gladys and her dog Bruiser are abducted by a male orb weaver in their basement. The only thing left of Bruiser is his collar. He finds a hole in the floor that leads down into the mines.

Sam is convinced Chris and Mike are delusional. However, her skepticism fades and she realizes that Chris and Mike were right all along when she witnesses a giant male orb-weaver attempting to abduct Ashley and Chris; The huge spider breaks into Ashley's room and webs her to the wall. Chris tries to save her, but the spider webs him as well. Sam bursts in with a shotgun and shoots the spider dead, to which Chris meekly replies, "Thank you".

Meanwhile Bret, still wandering the mines, gets a good peek at the giant Consuela during her feeding.

Sam contacts Pete and tells him to bring all of the guns in the police station's possession and they escape to Harlan's trailer, knowing he has a radio station and will be able to broadcast a signal since the phones are inoperative. Harlan is convinced that these creatures are actually alien invaders, and Chris is surprised that the conspiracy theorist can so readily accept the idea of alien, but has difficulty believing in giant spiders. To allay Harlan's concerns, Chris tells him that they are "spiders from Mars".

Samantha makes a city-wide broadcast, warning the citizens of Prosperity that they are being attacked by giant spiders. She instructs everyone to arm themselves and to go to the Prosperity Mall, where she believes the concrete walls and steel doors will afford them safe protection. While making the broadcast, a giant tarantula assaults the trailer, but the group manages to escape. The town is besieged by vicious spider hordes, many of which pop up from concealed bolt holes that connect to the mines. The main street area is overrun by spiders and dozens of people are either killed, or taken to be cocooned.

Showdown at the mall
Chris, Samantha, Mike, Ashley, Harlan, Wade and many other townspeople all escape and barricade themselves in the mall. Wade sneaks away into an area that leads into the mines and locks the gate before the spiders converge on the mall. The tarantula tears at the steel gates with his leg, ripping a hole into the mall big enough for the smaller spiders to climb through. The townsfolk arm themselves with the weapons that Deputy Willis brought as well as various items found in the mall itself including a crossbows, pitchforks and sporting goods.

Harlan and Chris climb onto the roof and ascend the radio mast and try to get a signal to call the United States Army as they are being attacked by the spiders. While Chris frantically tells the 911 operator that they require military intervention, but she believes him to be making a prank call. Harlan jumps from the roof, after the tarantula breaks open the gates and lets the spiders enter the mall, and lands in some bushes, where he meets up with Pete. The two run from spiders as Chris meets up with the remaining townsfolk and goes down to the basement. Meanwhile Bret, still wandering the mines, encounters the cowardly Wade before his abduction.

While the townsfolk are in the basement, Bret arrives on a forklift that brings down the locked gate, and they all head to through the mines straight to the front entrance, discovering the methane-filled tunnels. After losing Norman the janitor, and freeing Wade, Chris goes to look for his Aunt Gladys in the mines and finds her still alive, as well as the gold his father was searching for. Moments later, the gigantic Consuela appears before him. He uses perfume to distract the spider and then escapes using Bret's motorcycle. Chris then blows up the spiders and the mines utilizing Gladys's smoking addiction and the high concentrations of methane gas.

The police finally arrive. They had not believed the reports of the spiders, but believed Harlan's theory that the assailants were extraterrestrial in nature, until Pete tells them that the assailants were "just spiders, that had ingested extremely high levels of toxic waste." He attempts to prove this by removing his hat, showing us that he is bald. He runs his hand back and forth over his head saying; "All new growth, just look at this, all new growth!"

A short time later, Harlan is heard making a radio report about the spiders. He concludes that the town has decided to cover up the whole incident, but have let Harlan continue broadcasting the incident, knowing nobody will believe him. He also mentions Chris reopening the gold mines and putting everyone back to work. Harlan smiles revealing three glistening gold teeth.