Kingdom of the Spiders story
Spiders overrun a small town in rural Arizona.
10 total · 4 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. beast | major | The people and animals of a rural Arizona community were attacked by venomous spiders. |
| nature's revenge | major | Spiders adjusted their eating habits to the use of DDT in the environment and started cooperatively hunting people and large animals. |
| pesticides in society | major | The use of the had DDT killed off all the spider's food sources and they started attacking livestock and humans as a result. There was also a scene where a man attempted to "crop dust" the spiders from his airplane with a dangerous pesticide. |
| romantic love | major | Rack and Ashley fell in love. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Emma told Ashley that Gene Smith used to be quite a lady's man until such time as he started hitting the bottle pretty hard. |
| attachment to one's land | minor | Birch told Ashley that she would never let the spiders run her and Walter out from their ranch. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | minor | Birch mourned the death of her husband Walter in a spider induced traffic accident. |
| husband and wife | minor | The rancher Walter Colby and his wife Birch Colby. |
| mother and daughter | minor | Terry Hansen and her young daughter Linda. |
| uncle and niece | minor | Rack Hansen and his young niece. |