Storyline
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Directors
Cast
Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, John Goodman, Garette Ratliff Henson, Peter Jason, Jeff Daniels, Juan Fernández, Julian Sands, Brandy Norwood, Roy Brocksmith, Warren Rice, Michael Steve Jones, Stuart Pankin, Frances Bay, James Handy, Theo Schwartz, Brian McNamara, Mark L. Taylor, Harley Jane Kozak, Marlene Katz, Henry Jones, Kathy Kinney, Mary Carver, Jane Marla Robbins, Cori Wellins, Chance Boyer, Nathaniel Spitzley, Lois de Banzie, Robert Frank Telfer, Jay Scorpio, Fiona Walsh, Terese Del Piero, Mai-Lis Kuniholm
Trailer
Reviews
83
Arachnophobia is a skin-crawling horror film that never loses its cheeky, throwaway edge.
80
Empire
An exciting and thoroughly enjoyable, experience.
80
Newsweek
It pushes the audience's buttons with Pavlovian finesse, manufacturing industrial-strength adrenaline. First-time director Frank Marshall has long been Steven Spielberg's producer, and he's learned the master's lessons well.
75
This is the kind of movie where you squirm out of enjoyment, not terror, and it's probably going to be popular with younger audiences - it doesn't pound you over the head with violence. Like the spider itself, it has a certain respect for structure.
70
Frank Marshall has crammed the screen with plenty of knee-jerk thrills interlaced with black humour. Designed to reduce the audience to a squirming mass, the film yields plenty of grisly pleasures.
