Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia

Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude.

1990109 min6.5 / 10

A creature-feature comedy-horror that balances genuine scares with comedic relief, using spider-attack scenarios to generate both tension and laughs in a small-town setting.

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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