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Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror comedy film directed by Frank Marshall in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Don Jakoby and Wesley Strick.Starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, the film follows a small California town that becomes invaded by a deadly spider species and the town's residents' struggles against them to avert an ecological crisis.
TV Guide awarded the film 1 star out of 4 calling it an Alien imitation. [3] Editor of Psychotronic Video , Michael Weldon, described the creature effects as "pretty bad", saying the baby monster at the film's end was the "only scary part".
The film holds a 18% positive rating at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 4.4/10.The site's critical consensus reads, "Derivative and clumsily assembled, Rupture manages the tricky feat of making arachnophobia seem dull."
That desire to steer the feature-length ship materialized in the form of 1990's Arachnophobia, a B-movie send-up about a San Francisco physician (played by Jeff Daniels) who relocates his family ...
Mark Lawrence Taylor (born October 25, 1950) is an American actor, known for his roles in such films as Innerspace (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), [1] Arachnophobia (1990), [2] and High School Musical 2 (2007), [3] as well as television series such as Superman (1988), [4] and The Mask: Animated Series (1995–97).
On the stage, “Wicked” runs 2 hours and 45 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission. By comparison, the film version runs 2 hours and 41 minutes, although it only covers Act 1 of the musical and ...
Kozak starred in movies such as The House on Sorority Row (1983), Parenthood (1989), Side Out (1990), Arachnophobia (1990), The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991), Necessary Roughness (1991), All I Want for Christmas (1991), The Favor (1994), Magic in the Water (1995), Unforgivable (1996), and the soap operas Texas (from November 1981 to December 1982 as Brette Wheeler), Guiding Light (from 1983 ...
There is body horror galore. Body horror is a major element of the film, like all Alien entries before it. The creepy-crawly Face-huggers latch onto human faces and inject the hosts with alien babies.