"The Giant Spider Invasion" was released theatrically in 1975 grossing 15 million against a minuscule budget of only $300,000. While by no means a good movie, it can be a lot of drive-in fun if you watch it with the right frame of mind. The film is perhaps even more well known as being featured in a 1997 episode of the cult show Mystery Science Theater 3000 in which a lot of joke mileage came at the expense of Alan Hale Jr. (Gillian's Island) who has a role in the film as the local sheriff. If you like cheeseball creature effects, cornball acting and bad dialogue, then it is a lot of fun. It almost makes you wonder if it was all deliberate.Dark Force Entertainment brings "The Giant Spider Invasion" to blu-ray featuring a brand new HD transfer and restoration from the original 35mm camera negative. The film is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio (opened up a bit from its 1.85:1 theatrical presentation) utilizing the AVC codec at a solid bit rate getting up to 30 mbps during busy sections. The film looks absolutely amazing! Detail is superb, skin tones are natural, contrast/black levels are near perfect, and no digital noise reduction or edge enhancement seems to have been used. There is some very slight telecine wobble in some scenes but it is very minuscule and does not detract from what is a beautiful presentation of this cult classic. Everything looks perfectly filmic. This is quite possibly the best the film has ever looked.The only audio option is English 2.0 DTS-HD mono which sounds great with no hiss at all. No English subtitles are included with this release.Special features are as follows:- Bill ReBane interview (10 min. 49 sec.)- Robert Easton last interview (25 min. 35 sec.)- Giant Spider music video promo (2 min. 53 sec.)Fans of "The Giant Spider Invasion" should pick up Dark Force Entertainment's blu-ray release without hesitation. The film looks amazing, sounds great, and features some nice special features. Highly recommended!