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Arachnophobia

United States of America

PG-13
1990-07-20(US)
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Comedy,
Horror
▪ 1h-49m

64^%

User
Score

Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude.

Overview

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.

Kathleen KennedyProducer
Trevor JonesOriginal Music Composer
Frank MarshallDirector
Don JakobyScreenplay
Frank MarshallExecutive Producer
Steven SpielbergExecutive Producer

Top Billed Cast

Jeff Daniels

Ross Jennings

Harley Jane Kozak

Molly Jennings

John Goodman

Delbert McClintock

Julian Sands

Dr. James Atherton

Brian McNamara

Chris Collins

Stuart Pankin

Sheriff Parsons

Henry Jones

Dr. Sam Metcalf

Peter Jason

Henry Beechwood

Mark L. Taylor

Jerry Manley

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A review by John Chard

7.0

Written by John Chard on 2024-05-16

The itsy-bitsy spider crawled up the water spout; down came the rain and washed the spider out. When a photographer is bitten and killed by a spider in the Venezuelan jungle, his body is shipped back to his home town of Canaima in California. Unfortunately something has hitched a ride in his coffin... Mixing "B" ...

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