By Nik Rasmussen– This time you might not want to turn off the lights or reach your hand somewhere without looking first. I’ve got some creepy crawlies for you now.IT’S MOVIE TIME!!!
Our story starts us off in some backwater jungle in South America when a group of scientists on an exploration for something that is super important (but also super boring) unknowingly ship a highly dangerous spider to America. Once in America, the spider gets busy with the local spiders, creating a large number of hand-sized spiders that can kill a person almost instantly with just one bite.
Meanwhile, the main star of the movie moves to a small, quiet town somewhere in the middle of the U.S. He is a doctor, ready to replace the local doctor who was going to retire. The older doctor, like his taste in clothing, has trouble letting go and tells the main character to suck it. What a dick.
Because of their lack of money, the main character and his family are forced to remain in the small town. As the body count raises, so does the number of eight-legged threats.
Arachnophobia was released on July 18, 1990 and is rated PG-13. Frank Marshall directed the film. The story was written by Don Jakoby, Wesley Strick and Al Williams. It stars Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozek and John Goodman. This movie is a comical sci-fi horror thriller. The film’s budget was estimated to earn $31 million in the beginning, but brought in a gross of $53,133,888 in the U.S. alone. The running time is one hour and forty-three minutes.
Patrick Anderson, a student at Western Iowa Tech Community College first saw Arachnophobia at age eight and was terrified of spiders until age fifteen.
“I saw Home Alone, and I thought that if Kevin could handle a tarantula, then it can’t be that bad, and I realized that they really weren’t all that bad,” said Anderson.
Spiders are amazing critters that are often misunderstood. This is unfortunate, as spiders are important natural enemies of insects, and most are harmless to humans and pets. There are about 40,000 types of spiders in the world, living everywhere except for Antarctica. Spiders to look out for in the Siouxland area are the black widow and the brown recluse.
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