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- The film is mentioned on an episode of the animated sitcom The Critic. In the season 2 episode "From Chunk to Hunk", Jay Sherman reviews a new action movie starring Jean Paul LePope (a thinly-veiled parody of Jean Claude Van Damme). Sherman remarks, "Jean Paul LePope is the worst actor I've ever seen... and I've seen all of William Shatner's movies, even Kingdom of the Spiders!"
- In the Warren Zevon Song "Life'll Kill Ya," Zevon says "its the Kingdom of the Spiders" in the opening verse referring to the movie.
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