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Arachnophobia

Movie (1990)

"Eight legs, two fangs, and an attitude."

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.

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Released:	Jul 18th, 1990
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Arachnophobia Main Cast

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Jeff Daniels
plays Dr. Ross Jennings

Harley Jane Kozak
plays Molly Jennings

John Goodman
plays Delbert McClintock

Julian Sands
plays Doctor James Atherton

Stuart Pankin
plays Sheriff Lloyd Parsons

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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.
Family Ties is playing on the TV when spiders start crawling over the screen.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When a mouse is injected with venom from one of the spiders it is placed in a jar and left on the table top. The camera pans to the doctors so that the mouse is not in shot, and when the camera pans back to the mouse you can clearly see the jar being removed and replaced with a dead mouse in a jar.

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