1990 · comedy · horror · sports
Arachnophobia
Directed by Frank Marshall1h 49m1990
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.
Our read: Arachnophobia (1990) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · sports entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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