Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards in 1978. It was nominated in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Special and Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing. For the Sound Editing category, the winner was The Amazing Howard Hughes. For the Sound Mixing category, the winner was Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy.
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo is the only horror film directed by Stuart Hagmann. He is also known for directing the 1970 drama film The Strawberry Statement and the 1973 TV movie She Lives! as well as episodes of Mannix and Mission: Impossible.
This is the first horror film written by John Groves. He is also known for writing episodes of the 1970s medical drama Emergency!.
This is the second horror movie written by Guerdon Trueblood, as well as his second film in the predatory animal subgenre. Guerdon also wrote the scripts to the 1976 horror movie The Savage Bees starring Ben Johnson and Michael Parks.
