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.| Status: | Released (1990-07-20) |
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| Awards: | 2 wins & 5 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $53,208,180 |
| Screen: | Don Jakoby, Al Williams, Wesley Strick |
| Productions: | Amblin Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Tangled Web Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Español |
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- 5732: Henry Jones - Dr. Sam Metcalf
Crews
- 664: Frank Marshall - Director - Directing
- 17880: Wesley Strick - Screenplay - Writing
- 489: Kathleen Kennedy - Producer - Production
- 51346: Don Jakoby - Screenplay - Writing
- 52042: Richard Vane - Producer - Production
- 493: Michael Kahn - Editor - Editing
- 30149: Mikael Salomon - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
John Chard
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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 ....
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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 ....
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