After
exploring some spiders in a tropical
country a man named Jerry Manley (Mark L.
Taylor) is bitten and killed by a
gigantic tarantula but can't find this
vicious spider but it stows away to a
country land where a new family called
the Jennings moves in to a farmland and
the father named Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff
Daniels) has had a childhood fear of
spiders. He has grown up, married with
kids but he never overcame that fear.
The spider happens to reside in their
barn and mated with a female spider as
more killer spiders seemed to have bred
and made a huge web in the barn slowly
moving into other people's homes and
killing them.
Some people end up dying when Ross is
around who is a doctor and people accuse
him of being a death curse but then he
discovers these spiders are doing the
nasty deeds and now it is up to him to
try and find the nest and destroying all
the spiders which is his worst fear of
all but tries to get the aid of an
exterminator named Delbert McClintock
(John Goodman) although he is in a
dangerous situation that not even Delbert
can help him.
A great story and
truly scary for anyone who had a fear of
spiders like me as you are guaranteed to
be scared wondering if some of these
people will survive or not.
Has great effects and real creepy looking
spiders to make things even more
terrifying too.
The movie was almost a spoof on those old
70's flicks like Kingdom of the
Spiders but this one was in much
better taste.
If you love both comedy and horror this
one is for you!!!!
The acting is
terrific. Jeff Daniels does a
suspenseful performance and is
believeable as someone with a fear of
spiders with his actions.
Harley Jane Kozak pulls her part
off well too as the sympathetic wife.
John Goodman has great timing for
his comedic role as a heroic exterminator
as he brings alot of charm to the story
but of course he has had loads of
experience in comedy like in the sitcom Roseanne.
Frank Marshall
really knows his craft as a director
as he knows how to deliver alot of scares
for people who have fears of spiders.
He knows how to make the film both witty
and scary at the same time and delivers a
real scare with the spiders attacking the
people.
There is a good shot on supporting actor Mark
L. Taylor looking at a tarantula
that's supposedly dead and it leaps on
him which is a perfect scare with the
shots during this moment.
Also a good shot of a giant one crawling
into his sheets while sleeping and then
after it bites he reacts well gagging and
dropping dead.
Funny shot on a cat and dog running away
through a dog door slot and then the
spider slowly crawling out of the slot as
well.
A nice dark shot on the giant spider
mating with the small one.
Both Jeff Daniels and Harley
Jane Kozak have a nice dialogue near
a window sill at night and there are
stars outside.
Nice shots on Daniels climbing
up a ladder in a barn to check out a
giant web but reacts well being scared
about this and the ladder breaks as well
as spotting a dead rat webbed up which
really makes him trip out and does a good
job with it.
Perfect shot on supporting actress
Mary Carter when she is about to
shut off a lamp while a spider is in a
lamp shade and then is comes down and
bites her.
We get a good and comedic dialogue with John
Goodman and Kozak discussing
some spiders in her house while he does
some inspecting.
We also spot a funny moment with Goodman
in another scene trying to kill a spider
with his spray but it keeps on moving.
Nice shot on Daniels having his
back to the wall after a spider nearly
jumps on him and just acts too scared to
try and move.
There's a perfect shot with Daniels
looking closely at a man's corpse and a
spider crawls out of his nice
The terror really packs a punch with
Daniels, Kozak and the rest
of the main cast trying to escape from a
spider invasion in their house.
A perfect shot on Goodman
walking towards the house dressed up in
his exterminator outfit ready to go.
Daniels reacts well being trapped in a
cellar with spiders as he shows great
frightened anxiety to try and overcome
his fear. Nice shot on the giant spider
jumping out of it's nest when he tries to
pour alcohol on it and your eyes are
really glued when he is trapped with a
wine bottle shelf trapped on him
wondering if he can escape.
There's also a perfect shot with the
spider crawling up on his leg too which
really makes you cringe as well as the
spider jumping on him.
The whole directing was marvellous and is
guarantee to give you some chuckles as
well as alot of frights.
Trevor Jones
composed the music for this flick along
with tons of other motion pictures to his
credit as he has some nice peaceful
composing along with suspenseful music
too for the real shocking moments.
There are also songtracks
by artists like "Summer Wind"
by Frank Sinatra, "Blue
Eyes Are Sensitive to the Light" by Sara
Hickman, "Goin' Ahead" by
Pat Metheny, "I Left my Heart
in San Francisco" by Tony
Bennett and "Don't Bug Me"
by Jimmy Buffett.
[Flicks
ant off of Manley's knee]
Doctor James Atherton: 24 hour
ant.
Dick Manley: They bite?
Doctor James Atherton: They kill,
Mr. Manley, in sufficient numbers.
Dr. Ross Jennings: Respect is
fine, but actually I've always wanted to
be feared.
Delbert
McClintock: Rock and roll!
Jerry
Manley: So how long will it take us
to get back to camp?
Doctor James Atherton: What's the
matter? You still worried about
dinosaurs?
[noticing
the dead spider Lloyd took out of the
cereal box]
Milt Briggs: What could have
killed it?
Dr. Ross Jennings: The shock of
seeing Lloyd?
Dr.
Ross Jennings: The itsy-bitsy spider
crawled up the water spout; down came the
rain and washed the spider out.
Molly
Jennings: What's wrong?
Dr. Ross Jennings: Metcalf - he's
having a seizure.
Molly Jennings: Thank God you
didn't examine him this morning.
Delbert
McClintock: Would anyone object if I
tore this floor out?
Molly Jennings: I would.
Delbert McClintock: False alarm
then. Lead on.
Molly
Jennings: I'm sure you knew exactly
what you were doing when you took
Margaret off those pills.
Dr. Ross Jennings: Like I knew
what I was doing when I chose this
town... with the country doctor from
hell!
Dr.
Ross Jennings: What do you wanna bet
they're gonna go chase fireflies?
Bunny: Wanna blow up a bullfrog?
Shelley: OK.
Delbert
McClintock: There ain't no spiders
here.
Collins: Look! There's a giant
spider web over there in the corner.
Delbert McClintock: Well yes, a
spider web would reveal an arachnid
presence.
Doctor
James Atherton: What's your
specialty, Manley?
Jerry Manley: Football.
Dr.
Ross Jennings: [after killing a
spider] Therapy.
Delbert
McClintock: [after stepping on a
spider, a dog barks in the background]
Yeah, that's right... I'm bad!
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