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Arachnophobia

Name: Arachnophobia
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1990-07-20
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 6.452

★ 6,5 /10 (1,552 Votes)

1990 EN 109 min

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.

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Release date

20/07/1990

Votes

1,552

Popularity

7.0

Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude.

Genres

Comedy Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

109 min

Budget

$31,000,000

Revenue

$53,200,000

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

James Handy

Milton Briggs

Roy Brocksmith

Irv Kendall

Kathy Kinney

Blaire Kendall

Mary Carver

Margaret Hollins

Garette Ratliff Henson

Tommy Jennings

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Marlene Katz

Shelley Jennings

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Jane Marla Robbins

Edna Beechwood

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Theo Schwartz

Bunny Beechwood

Cori Wellins

Becky Beechwood

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Chance Boyer

Bobby Beechwood

Frances Bay

Evelyn Metcalf

Lois de Banzie

Henrietta Manley

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Warren Rice

Dick Manley

Robert Frank Telfer

Mayor Bob

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Michael Steve Jones

Irv's Assistant

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Fiona Walsh

Little Girl

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Terese Del Piero

Mom

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Nathaniel Spitzley

Todd Miller

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Jay Scorpio

Mover

Mai-Lis Kuniholm

Girlfriend

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Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc

Helicopter Pilot

Juan Fernández

Miguel Higueras (uncredited)

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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" movie conventions with a modern day fun sensibility, Arachnophobia sees Frank Marshall direct and Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman and Harley Jane Kozak line up in the cast. Though horror and comedy on the surface doesn't seem to be a that hard to blend together, it's act…

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"Arachnophobia" is structured along reasonably simplistic lines and it is obviously geared more towards squeezing every last second of excitement and tension from the climatic sequences when the arachnids are out in the open for the first time. The unheralded spider unit responsible for achieving all these terrific sequences must be wholeheartedly congratulated for some sterling work with the spiders scuttling around all over the place and you are never quite sure exactly where or when they will make a startling and unwelcome appearance and usually with deadly results, but don't despair too mu…

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