Fresh
Frank Marshall's sophisticated feature directing debut never indulges in ultimate gross-out effects and carefully chooses both its victims and its means of depicting their dispatch.
Variety Staff, Variety
Arachnophobia
Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude.
1990 · 1h 49m · PG-13
Comedy, Horror
Directed by
Frank Marshall
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Frank Marshall Director
- Jeff Daniels as Dr. Ross Jennings
- Harley Jane Kozak as Molly Jennings
- John Goodman as Delbert McClintock
- Julian Sands as Doctor James Atherton
- Stuart Pankin as Sheriff Lloyd Parsons
- Brandy Norwood as Brandy Beechwood
- Brian McNamara as Chris Collins
- Mark L. Taylor as Jerry Manley
- Henry Jones as Doctor Sam Metcalf
- Peter Jason as Henry Beechwood
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
First-time director Frank Marshall has long been Steven Spielberg's producer, and he's learned the master's lessons well.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Designed to reduce the audience to a squirming mass, the film yields plenty of grisly pleasures.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
That sound you hear in the background is the ''ugh!'' heard round the world. Luckily, ''Arachnophobia'' will also be generating its share of boisterous, nervous laughter.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
It's a one-joke movie, a funhouse ride, the cinematic equivalent of having a rubber spider thrown in your lap. But it doesn't matter if you reject the wispy script or the plot, which has as much substance as a spider's web; you'll jump every time.
Joe Brown, Washington Post
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