Review of The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) by Matt H — 09 Feb 2009
It's just okay. It took me three years to find a copy of this so I'm sort of biased maybe, but I was pretty underwhelmed by it. Yeah it stars 3 Bond girls (including Domino from Thunderball,the best one ever), but I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be for the giallo fan in me or the straight up 70's crime movie fan in me.
Either way it's not that great though it does have one really good stunt which I'm surprised they used the real actors to film and a pretty interesting drug smuggling subplot (which is just left unresolved).
Not to mention Barbara Bouchet who's always welcome in my 70's movies. It's even got a stereotypical giallo "psychological explanation" of the killings at the end, which I'll admit is the one thing about the genre I really can't stand.
Meh...
This review of The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) was written by Matt H on 09 Feb 2009.
The Black Belly of the Tarantula has generally received mixed reviews.
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