ThiefHott Too much of everything
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
lukem-52760 Arachnophobia is pure late night entertainment,IT'S another childhood classic of mine that i always remember being on t.v on a Saturday night & i watched it every time i loved it & still do!!! This is a true classic movie with the great Spielberg producing it you know this is going to be a BRILLIANTLY made suspense Thriller & it is.The music is beautiful throughout,the small American town is beautiful & the cast is Amazing especially JEFF DANIELS & JOHN GOODMAN!!! The spiders are terrifying & the film has a real magical fun tone mixed perfectly with really suspenseful scary moments & silly fun bits but all goes perfectly together!!! A true old school CLASSIC that deserves it's place up there with films such as JAWS,POLTERGEIST,GREMLINS & other beautifully made/produced Spielberg greats
theashtonfive Arachnophobia deserves a much higher rating and a lot more attention and fame than it got. Jeff Daniels is fantastic in it and John Goodman steals the show as an exterminator who is in way over his head. Julian Sands is also great.It's about super deadly killer spiders who kill a researcher in South America then hitch a ride in his casket back to the United States where they begin a killing spree.This movie is very funny and also has a lot of great scares in it. If spiders make you feel icky and or shiver then this is the movie for you. The use of real non-CGI spiders and good practical effects make the spiders much more menacing.
gridoon2018 105 minutes may be too many for a movie about killer spiders, but other than that, this is an entertaining, well-done horror comedy, in the "animals/serpents/bugs/birds/etc. attack" sub-genre. The director, Frank Marshall, and the screenwriters, Wesley Strick and Don Jakoby, think of every possible and impossible place to put their spiders, which are a near flawless mix of the real thing and animatronic models (thankfully, this movie was made before the days of CGI - notice how fake the same creatures look in later horror movies). Both the sudden shocks and the close calls are expertly timed by Marshall, and because there are no real "villains" among the humans you don't know who is going to get it - obviously the Spielbergian family is safe, but everyone else is fair game. I do, however, have some reservations about John Goodman's bug-exterminator character: he seems to have stepped in from another movie - "Ghostbusters"! **1/2 out of 4.
TheBlueHairedLawyer Arachnophobia is okay, but typical. A rare species of spider ends up traveling to the United States in a coffin, and wreaks havoc on a boring family, including the dad, who is terrified of spiders.The entire time I was watching this, I couldn't get the image of the picture-perfect families from Poltergeist, Edward Scissorhands, etc. out of my head. The countryside homes reminded me of the town from Beetlejuice, as did many of the actors. The soundtrack was very Addams Family-like. From the early eighties to early nineties, the era had several films each with similar characters. It was hard to view this film as original. Not only were the spider web effects incredibly fake-looking, but the film stretched on and became incredibly boring. The acting was okay but not very good and the soundtrack was typical.There's no real side to this movie, I can't call it good or bad. Just typical.
