Search results
Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror comedy film directed by Frank Marshall in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Don Jakoby and Wesley Strick. Starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman , the film follows a small California town that becomes invaded by a deadly spider species and the town's residents' struggles against them to avert an ...
- The Cast and Crew
- Making Arachnophobia
- Working with Spiders
- Release, Reception, and A Remake
1.Jeff Daniels, as small town doctor Ross Jennings, received top billing for the film. Even so, he doesn’t appear in the movie until 20 minutes in. 2. John Goodman has Stephen Spielberg to thank for his role in Arachnophobia. In order to executive produce the film, Spielberg had a stipulation that Goodman have a role because he loved working with h...
5.The title refers to the actual fear of spiders, which has the same name: Arachnophobia. 6. Since the term “horror comedy” wasn’t as prolific in 1990, advertisers weren’t sure how to market Arachnophobia. They considered it a thriller and comedy, so some ads referred to it as a “thrill-omedy.” 7.The town of Canaima, California doesn’t exist. The f...
11. Most of the spiders used in the film were real. They used New Zealand natives: 300 Avondale spiders(Delena cancerides). These spiders were chosen because of their large size, social attitudes, and harmlessness to humans. 12.It wasn’t an easy choice to go with the Avondale spiders. Frank Marshall did tests with a wide range of spiders to make su...
25. Arachnophobia released July 18, 1990 and debuted at third at the box office. It earned $8 million during the opening weekend and $53 million domestically overall. It also earned $30 million in home video rentals. With a budget of $22 millions, this makes it a commercial success. 26.The film was nominated for seven awards and won two: The Saturn...
Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror comedy film film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. It was the first film released by Walt Disney Studios' Hollywood Pictures label, as well as being the directorial debut of Marshall.
A strange spider from the depths of a jungle is accidentally transported back to the good old USA. Through numerous coincidences and accidents, it finds a home in the barn of a doctor's new home. After it mates with a local spider, thousands of little spiders run riot in the small town.
Jul 18, 1990 · A young football player topples over dead. The old-fogy doctor refuses to order an autopsy, but then events conspire to prove him wrong, and soon the spider man (Julian Sands) has been called in from the university and is shaking his head in the approved manner. You wouldn’t think spiders would be good visual elements for a movie.
Oct 11, 2020 · There’s a moment in Arachnophobia where Jeff Daniels’ Dr Ross Jennings, lying in bed one night worried his new hometown of Canaima is under attack from venomous spiders, spots an eight-legged...
Arachnophobia. A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify young Dr. Ross Jennings, who is newly arrived in town with his family.