“She’ll be pin-up girl in the nursing home when I’m still doing kick-ups!” This print compiles best available sources to include all the scenes cut from the international release, so you get all the nude swimming and dancing the American cut promised and never delivered, making this a perfect film for long hot summer nights when sleep is impossible and danger lurks around every turn.
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We’ve seen burlesque dancers on the stage, we’ve seen burlesque dancers behind the scenes, so how about burlesque dancers crash-landing on a tropic island and facing off against an evil spider-ma…erm, man-spider? Welcome to Ein Toter hing im Netz (The Bodies Hang In Nets), a weird little German film which we in the west know as HORROR OF SPIDER ISLAND! A talent agent named Gary (Alexander D’Arcy, THE ST. Ein Toter hing im Netz, The Bodies Hang In Nets)ĭir.
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