There are a total of twenty credited cast members in this film.
Production on Kingdom of the Spiders began on March 14th, 1977. Principal filming concluded in April, 1977. The movie was shot primarily in Sedona, Arizona with beginning establishing shots filmed in Camp Verde.
Kingdom of the Spiders was considered a commercial success, costing approximately $1,000,000 to produce and earning $17,000,000.
Kingdom of the Spiders was released on Blu-ray by Code Red on March 26th, 2019. A limited slipcover edition, which was also a Ronin Flix Exclusive was released on July 5th, 2017. The Kino Cult edition was released by Kino Lorber on August 27th, 2024.
This is John Cardos' first work in the horror genre as a film director.
Director John Cardos once worked as a bird wrangler on two different Alfred Hitchcock films. He worked on Psycho in 1960 and The Birds in 1963.
The cost for purchasing the tarantulas used in this film was $10.00 per live animal. Handlers collected 5,000 spiders, making up $50,000 of the film's overall budget.
Actress Altovise Davis, who plays Birch Colby, gets an "And introducing..." credit in this film, even though she previously played Deputy Molly in Welcome to Arrow Beach in 1973 and Lydia in Pipe Dreams in 1976.
Actress Nadia Caillou, who plays a minor role as a screaming woman in this film, is the daughter of screenwriter Alan Caillou.
Actor William Shatner is of course best known for playing the role of Kenneth Roubidaux in the biographical family drama film A Sunday Horse in 2016. Oh, yeah... he also played Captain Kirk on Star Trek.
Review Ratings[]
On the Internet Movie Database, Kingdom of the Spiders has unweighted mean Starmeter rating score of 5.9/10 based on more than 6,500 user votes. The rating makes up 25.3% of the total vote. 453 users gave the film a perfect score of a 10, comprising 7.0% of the total vote. 195 people gave it a 1, making up 3.0% of the total voting pool.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Kingdom of the Spiders has a Tomatometer score of 55% based on 11 posted critic reviews. It has 6 positive reviews and 5 negative reviews, averaging 5.90 out of 10. The film has an audience score of 37 based on 2,500 votes, averaging 2.9 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Kingdom of the Spiders has a weighted average review score of 2.90 out of 5 based on 4,889 user votes.
