The aliens from the Arácnea galaxy arrive on Earth (specifically in Mexico) to feed their Queen with brains, (after they killed all the beings in that galaxy to use their brains as food).
Upon landing in Mexico, the arachnids hid in an abandoned ranch to fulfill their objective, since if the Queen dies of hunger, this would mean the death of all the aliens of Arácnea.
During their journey to said ranch (traveling in their flying saucers), these beings disintegrated a man who was traveling in his car with their death ray, leaving only his charred skeleton. Coincidentally, Blue Demon and his friend José (Sergio Virel) were traveling on the same road where the man was disintegrated and they also managed to see the ships, so they approached to see the man's car, only to find his skeleton. Demon tries to explain this event and talks about the supposed phenomenon of "self-ignition" and its relationship with neutrinos and antimatter (in the most illogical way).
Once installed in the ranch, the spiders talk about their transformation from arachnids to humans (and supposedly the only thing they have left of arachnids is a kind of spider-shaped tattoo under their ears). However, the Queen kept her spider form. Arianec (Maria Elena Cervantes), the Queen's closest subordinate, sends her assistants Moloc (Nathanael León "Frankenstein") and Brotik (René Barrera) to bring people to the queen and feed her with their brains. Likewise, Moloc and Brotik must stop Blue Demon, since Arianec detected that he, along with Lieutenant Robles (Ramón Bugarini), José and Hilda (José's girlfriend; played by Blanca Sánchez), are investigating the origin of the radiation that caused the disintegration of the man on the road.
After trying (unsuccessfully) to eliminate the Blue-Masked Man and Company, Moloc and Brotik kidnap a wrestler and a woman and offer them as food to the Queen. However, these 2 brains are not enough and Arianec decides that Blue Demon will be the new victim.
A short time later, from Arácnea arrives Prince Arac (Fernando Osés), who will be in charge of catching Demon. Arac appears in the wrestling arena as "Ocram" and directly challenges Blue Demon to a match and the masked man accepts. The day of the match arrives and Arac has a great advantage over Demon due to his surprising agility, but Blue Demon discovers that Arac has a weak point: his right arm, and after hitting him on that point several times, Arac's hand turns into a spider, with which he tries to attack Demon without success, but in the attempt he manages to kill Lieutenant Robles by biting him and inoculating his wrist with his venom. Arac escapes from the wrestling arena with Moloc and Brotik, who managed to kidnap José and Hilda.
Our hero goes after them in his car, but Arianec manages to make the car useless using his death beam, but Demon still reaches the lair and defeats Arac, Moloch and Arianec. He also rescues José and Hilda from being eaten. Brotik and the Queen escape on the ship, but Blue Demon manages to destroy the ship with the beam, thus ending the threat of the Hellish Spiders.
As you saw, the story of this movie is quite strange. Spiders do not come from hell as the title suggests, but rather they come from another galaxy.
Due to its low budget, this movie uses footage from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Teenagers From Outer Space" (for the flying saucer and death ray scenes).
There are also several bizarre things that this film contains, such as the capes with spiderweb decorations worn by Moloc and Brotik (which would make the presence of space arachnids on Earth more obvious); also the explanation about neutrinos is not even real (which in this movie are considered antimatter particles that cause the self-ignition phenomenon) and without a doubt the most cheesy and bizarre thing is the transformation of Arac's hand into a spider.
To make the Queen, a plush in the form of a spider was used, which was quite damaged. As a curious fact, that same plush was used in another Sci-Fi and horror movie that was made in Mexico, I am referring to the film "Aventura al Centro de la Tierra" from 1965.
This is one of the first luchador movies I saw in my life (I saw it approximately when I was 4 years old). At first, me and my mom thought that the name of this movie was "Arácnido" (Arachnid in Spanish) and with that name I was looking for it on the internet for several years, but a couple of years ago I found its real name and I was able to see it for the second time.
To conclude this review, I give "Hellish Spiders" a rating of 6.5/10.
Upon landing in Mexico, the arachnids hid in an abandoned ranch to fulfill their objective, since if the Queen dies of hunger, this would mean the death of all the aliens of Arácnea.
During their journey to said ranch (traveling in their flying saucers), these beings disintegrated a man who was traveling in his car with their death ray, leaving only his charred skeleton. Coincidentally, Blue Demon and his friend José (Sergio Virel) were traveling on the same road where the man was disintegrated and they also managed to see the ships, so they approached to see the man's car, only to find his skeleton. Demon tries to explain this event and talks about the supposed phenomenon of "self-ignition" and its relationship with neutrinos and antimatter (in the most illogical way).
Once installed in the ranch, the spiders talk about their transformation from arachnids to humans (and supposedly the only thing they have left of arachnids is a kind of spider-shaped tattoo under their ears). However, the Queen kept her spider form. Arianec (Maria Elena Cervantes), the Queen's closest subordinate, sends her assistants Moloc (Nathanael León "Frankenstein") and Brotik (René Barrera) to bring people to the queen and feed her with their brains. Likewise, Moloc and Brotik must stop Blue Demon, since Arianec detected that he, along with Lieutenant Robles (Ramón Bugarini), José and Hilda (José's girlfriend; played by Blanca Sánchez), are investigating the origin of the radiation that caused the disintegration of the man on the road.
After trying (unsuccessfully) to eliminate the Blue-Masked Man and Company, Moloc and Brotik kidnap a wrestler and a woman and offer them as food to the Queen. However, these 2 brains are not enough and Arianec decides that Blue Demon will be the new victim.
A short time later, from Arácnea arrives Prince Arac (Fernando Osés), who will be in charge of catching Demon. Arac appears in the wrestling arena as "Ocram" and directly challenges Blue Demon to a match and the masked man accepts. The day of the match arrives and Arac has a great advantage over Demon due to his surprising agility, but Blue Demon discovers that Arac has a weak point: his right arm, and after hitting him on that point several times, Arac's hand turns into a spider, with which he tries to attack Demon without success, but in the attempt he manages to kill Lieutenant Robles by biting him and inoculating his wrist with his venom. Arac escapes from the wrestling arena with Moloc and Brotik, who managed to kidnap José and Hilda.
Our hero goes after them in his car, but Arianec manages to make the car useless using his death beam, but Demon still reaches the lair and defeats Arac, Moloch and Arianec. He also rescues José and Hilda from being eaten. Brotik and the Queen escape on the ship, but Blue Demon manages to destroy the ship with the beam, thus ending the threat of the Hellish Spiders.
As you saw, the story of this movie is quite strange. Spiders do not come from hell as the title suggests, but rather they come from another galaxy.
Due to its low budget, this movie uses footage from "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Teenagers From Outer Space" (for the flying saucer and death ray scenes).
There are also several bizarre things that this film contains, such as the capes with spiderweb decorations worn by Moloc and Brotik (which would make the presence of space arachnids on Earth more obvious); also the explanation about neutrinos is not even real (which in this movie are considered antimatter particles that cause the self-ignition phenomenon) and without a doubt the most cheesy and bizarre thing is the transformation of Arac's hand into a spider.
To make the Queen, a plush in the form of a spider was used, which was quite damaged. As a curious fact, that same plush was used in another Sci-Fi and horror movie that was made in Mexico, I am referring to the film "Aventura al Centro de la Tierra" from 1965.
This is one of the first luchador movies I saw in my life (I saw it approximately when I was 4 years old). At first, me and my mom thought that the name of this movie was "Arácnido" (Arachnid in Spanish) and with that name I was looking for it on the internet for several years, but a couple of years ago I found its real name and I was able to see it for the second time.
To conclude this review, I give "Hellish Spiders" a rating of 6.5/10.