ROFL @ "Aracnophobia" Movie.

[kryptix]

I remember seeing this movie as a kid, and now I just saw it again, the first time after keeping T's. Pretty dang cheesy I would say. Gotta love the scene where the "expert" is feeding one of his T's and it has the classic halloween type spider web, ha.

Were those real spiders they used, the ones that were always coming down from something by their silk and if so what kind were they, looked creepy!

 

[blooms]

Cheesy or not, that film freaked me out. When I was a kid, my parents wouldn't let me have a T, so i went outside and caught wolf spiders. I fed them and kept them. I was well on my way to someday owning a T, until I saw that movie. It creeped me out-especially the scene near the end, where you saw the flames reflected in the spider's eyes. After seeing that film, for many years I couldn't stand the sight of a spider...I even had to look away during spider filled scenes from the lord of the rings and harry potter. Anyways, one day after my 35th birthday I went to buy bought a scorpion and saw an interesting looking T. I don't know why i bought it...maybe the tiger striped abdomen attracted me (It was a juvenile H. Hainanum). Then i got addicted to keeping T's. I watch my T's each day and now even jumping spiders(which used to freak me out) don't scare me anymore. Amazing how one silly movie can affect people.

 

[SCORPIONNOOB]

Im pretty sure that robc lended his T.blondi out for lord of the rings spider. They are about the same size!! We will never know what kind of spiders those were in "arachnophobia"... If I recall corectly the rarest and one of the most deadliest spiders in that movie imported from brazil cross bred with a common house spider making all of those naughty little ones that went around killing people via: popcorn, slipper bites, etc.... and then the mother was murdered with a nail gun... into an breaker box... :worship:

 

[seanbond]

i though it was pretty kewl..

 

[Shrike]

From imdb.com

"The small spiders used in the film were Avondale spiders (Delena cancerides), a harmless species from New Zealand that were provided by Landcare Research in Auckland. Despite their fierce appearance, this spider is docile member of the crab-spider family and are, in fact, harmless to humans. They were not allowed back in New Zealand for quarantine reasons. The giant "spider" used in the film was a species of a bird-eating tarantula, which attains an 8" legspan or more. Those types of tarantula are not easy to handle and can give a nasty bite. The spiders in the film were managed and handled by famed entomologist Steven R. Kutcher."

I remember seeing this when I was a kid--freaked me out! You've got to love John Goodman as the exterminator. Classic.

 

[natebugman]

The guy who did the "spider wrangling" for that movie came to Texas Tech when I was a grad student there. I got to meet him and he showed us how to handle our tarantulas. He even used one for a stage demonstration he did for the talk he gave. He also did the spider work for Spiderman and alot of other movies and tv shows. I can't remember his name, but I'll post it if I can find it.

As for the spiders, I think that most of them were real except the flaming one at the end. I believe the smaller spiders that were everywhere including the shower scene were some type of hunstman spider.

 

[natebugman]

Kutcher, that's right.

You can check out his webpage to see what other movies, etc. he's done:

http://home.earthlink.net/~skutcher/

 

[SCORPIONNOOB]

i though it was pretty kewl..

Oh, its still a bad ass movie!:razz:

 

[the nature boy]

The giant "spider" used in the film was a species of a bird-eating tarantula, which attains an 8" legspan or more. Those types of tarantula are not easy to handle and can give a nasty bite

Species please?!!! I have yet to find any so called "bird eating spider" to be difficult to handle (actually, they're quite easy being so much slower than, say, arboreals). Moreover, their bite might cause some mechanical damage but the venom is nothing whatsoever to worry about. I'd be much more concerned about a big Pokie giving me a kiss.

 

[Autumnvicky]

Never even thought about what my having a tarantula would do to my movie experience. :?

Just watched an old Godzilla movie, had a monster tarantula called 'Spiga.' (Spy-ga) I was surprised that the thing did a perfect death curl, legs underneath it when Godzilla killed it. Felt sorry for the Spiga, it was a burrowing type. Anyway, whoever made that movie knew about tarantulas! It was cool to look back at that and realize.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if any spider horror movies will scare me anymore or just fascinate me

 

[Shrike]

Further investigation in a prestigious, peer reviewed journal (aka wikipedia) yielded the following:

"The film made use of 374 Avondale spiders, which were picked for their large size, lack of actual venom, and unusually social lifestyle. They were guided around the set by the use of heat and cold, but the large "queen" was an articulated model."

Maybe imdb took a bit of cinematic license to expand the biological definition of species to include animatronic terminator spiders. Just imagine...

In the year 2029, robot spiders are fighting against a human resistance, after having nearly destroyed the rest of humanity in 1997. The robot spiders have found a way to send some of their warriors, called Bird Eating Terminators, back in time. This is the story of the bird eater sent to kill the resistance leader's mother in 1984, before she gives birth...

Clearly its time to leave work.

 

[the nature boy]

Clearly its time to leave work.

Yep. lol! j/k

 

[redsaw]

Pretty cheesy movie indeed.
speaking of cheesy spider movies anyone seen "Kingdom of spiders" an old film from 1977 starring William Shatner?

 

[Shrike]

Pretty cheesy movie indeed.
speaking of cheesy spider movies anyone seen "Kingdom of spiders" an old film from 1977 starring William Shatner?

Is this the movie where the spiders are B. smithi? Man, watch out for those deadly Brachypelma.

 

[natebugman]

I have Kingdom of Spiders on DVD. Shatner rules! LOL. I just wish I would come across a nest of social Mexican red-knees like he does in that movie.

 

[redsaw]

Is this the movie where the spiders are B. smithi? Man, watch out for those deadly Brachypelma.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that most if not all of them are. Its been a little while since I watched it. I have it on DVD and the Ts on the cover are B. smithi.
-Didnt mean to hijack the thread really.

 

[Sathane]

I still love that movie (Arachnophobia). It is cheesy and there is no useful information in it as well as it perpetuating the myth of the big bad spider but it's awesome nonetheless.

Gotta love the scene when the Ts are chasing the humans to the mall and the one is on top of the garbage bin and rooting on the attack in it's little spider voice. ROFL!

 

[natebugman]

I still love that movie (Arachnophobia). It is cheesy and there is no useful information in it as well as it perpetuating the myth of the big bad spider but it's awesome nonetheless.

Gotta love the scene when the Ts are chasing the humans to the mall and the one is on top of the garbage bin and rooting on the attack in it's little spider voice. ROFL!

I think that you are thinking about Eight Legged Freaks (giant spiders), not Arachnophobia(normal sized super venomous spiders).

 

[killy]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned "Eight-Legged Freaks" starring a cast of thousands (of spiders) and, oh yeah, David Arquette - probably because I'm about the only one who actually saw it ... I was out with my sister and brother-and-law and niece and suggested we go see it when it was in the theaters and all 3 of them completely wussed out on me (you know, the "Ew-w-w-w!!!" routine):wall: , so I ended up getting it on DVD - I still haul it out every now and then and watch it - it's fun.

Did anybody notice in "Arachnophobia" that the spiders "talked"? Like when they got shot, or burned, they would cry out ... I thought that was picturesque.

So when is somebody going to make a movie that doesn't demonize spiders? :evil: Like, make the spider the hero for a change - well, of course, there's Charlotte's Web ... okay, I withdraw my question.

Just read your post Nate - so I'm not alone after all! hahahah

 

[The_Sandman]

although cheesy as it was . i actually thought that the giant spider used in the movie ,do actually chase humans if they where to see a human in there natural habitat. i never bothered to do any research on them , till now . now i can laugh about it, although i still wouldn't want one crawling on me , and this is coming from some one who is about to get a Goliath bird eater, I'm just going to admire from it from its cage