Had a friend in high school who was legitimately arachnophobic, and we managed to actually get him into the theater to see this. He put on a brave face, clutching the wooden armrests of his seat through the entire movie. As soon as that massive spider leapt for the screen in the end fight, there was a sudden crack/snap from him. He had ripped the armrests right off the frame of the chair. We left the theater quietly soon after.
Personally, my favourite thing about this film has always been it’s Swedish title, ”Imse vimse spindel”, which translates to ”Itsy Bitsy Spider”. It just seems to perfectly fit the tone of the movie.
Having that title with the poster of the spider in front of the moon with the small town in the background… yeah I think that works a bit better in my opinion too.
Same. I enjoyed watching it as a teen but... for whatever reason, I just can't handle the scene with the big momma spider. Freaky deaky hell. I just can't deal with it.
Oh wow! Probably why huntsman’s are the only large spiders that scare me. They jump and hide in trees lol. I love spiders tho I have a Green Bottle Blue tarantula female and I love jumping spiders!
Rest in Peace, Julian Sands, who went missing while hiking the San Gabriel Mountains near California in January 2023. His remains were discovered five months later.
@@sheridan140 Yes, that was him. He was also in The Killing Fields, Naked Lunch, Leaving Las Vegas, A Room with a View, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
@@MforMovesetsevery tickle on the back of your neck, or every itch on your leg when you're trying to sleep "it's probably nothing.... It's almost definitely nothing.... But just in case" and then you have to frantically attack wherever the itch or tickle is. And the one time I assumed it wasn't anything, and casually went to scratch my side.... I felt wriggly legs, and jumped out of bed to find a huge spider had been climbing up my side, trying to find it's way out. (and I can't ever forget when Britain had a pandemic of baby spiders building their webs over everybody's front doors, and I walked right through it, and was suddenly covered in what felt like millions of baby spiders, causing me to rush to the bathroom and have to wait for it to fill up, cause I still felt them all over me, and in my beard) So even if you're 99% sure that tickle or itch isn't a spider... I've experienced that 1% twice
Steven Spielberg wanted the Roger Rabbit short 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' to be shown in front of this movie, and Michael Eisner wanted it shown in front of 'Dick Tracy'. When Eisner got his way, this caused Spielberg to end his deal with Amblin and Disney and not make any more Roger Rabbit shorts after 'Trail Mix-Up'.
I THOUGHT that I'd seen this film when I was younger, but it turns out it was only "Eight Legged Freaks." Every Spider movie eventually blends into one! 🕸️🕷️
@@trinaq tbf they do start off pretty similar, with the spiders starting off smaller, and never growing to be as huge as most spider horror movies. Plus usually it's just one giant spider, but both movies had swarms of them. Aaaaaand a lot of movies don't do their homework, and have dumb stuff like the spiders swallowing people whole, or tearing them apart. Arachnophobia and 8 Legged Freaks, actually had them Webbing up their prey to drain later (though thankfully for those people in the mines, the spiders didn't do what they usually do, and inject the people with a venom that turned their insides to liquid, so they could slurp them up later. Otherwise they would have been doomed from the moment they were taken there.) Also, most of us know the movie as 8 Legged Freaks, but it's original name (and the name a lot of countries had the movie sold as) was originally "Arac Attack" which sounds similar to Arachnophobia That's why that one spider obsessed kid kept trying to make "Arac Attack" a thing, whenever a spider pounced. So you might have seen it under that title, and not realised.
fun facts: 1. The actress who played the mother was also Agent Tanya in the Red Alert game 2. The movie was not called Eight Legged Freaks. At first they called it Arrak Attack... but it was during the Gulf war, so it was easy to hear Irak Attack.
Fun fact from a complete internet stranger: I’m firmly convinced this movie is the legit reason I have arachnophobia. I don’t exactly remember why/how I saw the movie, aside from on the TV and not in theaters, but I very much remember the “climactic” battle at the end. Struggled with a fear of spiders since then. So, it was an aptly named movie!
I've had arachnophobia as long as i can remember and this film has scared me as far back as I can remember. One of the most terrifying films ever made if you're deathly afraid of spiders. So many nightmare scenarios.
I watched it as a kid because I was afraid of spiders but I wanted to be brave, and Holy Crap. It was one of those films I watched a couple times but then not at all since xD
I was happily terrified of this movie but John Goodman playing a laid-back yet badass exterminator with a goofy song lightened the terror in the best way.
I saw the popcorn scene as a kid, and for years I was terrified to stick my hand in a bag/bowl of popcorn. And yep, 40 years old and still scared of spiders.
This movie has always held a special place in my memory because it was the first drive thru movie I ever saw, when I was like 13 or 14 me and my 2 best friends went to a drive thru where they were showing a double feature of this movie and Poltergeist, and so it really cemented this movie in my memory even though it’s a movie that I probably wouldn’t have remembered all these years later otherwise
I loved this movie as a kid. I’m not scared of spiders, but the thought of tiny death dealing stealth freaks is scary. But seeing Dan from Rosanne kill all of them in the end was epic
On the thirtieth day of disneycember my critic gave to me 30 arachnids scaring 29 bobs harassing 28 good wills hunting (they walked directly into that one) 27 bad best animated feature nominees sucking 26 Grogus growing 25 Santas swearing 24 minimum wage employees working 23 titans... Remembering? (idk I've never seen it) 22 minifigures moving (ON THEIR OWN, AHHHHH) 21 cartoons (not) framing 20 Guinea Pigs spying 19 scrats-a-spooking 18 crows ressurecting 17 rockets blasting 16 face huggers impregnating 15 generations defining 14 queens beheading 13 movies laughing 12 meteors falling 11 episodes stitching 10 movies trying 9 ghostfaces killing 8 acolytes dividing 7 tom and jerrys feuding 6 judges dreading 5 DOG DEADPOOOOOOOLS 4 kravens hunting 3 emotions jarring 2 mutents fighting And every film students favorite movie
I think this may have been the first "Horror" movie that I saw in a theatre when I was a kid. It's an enjoyable movie that I've re watched a number of times.
It took me years to watch this! I had such a fear of spiders for years. It took years of jumping spider videos to get over it. Now I love them. They're cute, in an ugly sorta way.
Honestly for me, it was that isekai "So I'm a Spider, so What?", about this girl who died and got sent to a fantasy world as a spider monster in a fantasy dungeon. The Web novel (cause it later became a manga and an anime, but the Web novel went a lot more into the experience of being a spider) did a fantastic job giving me a chance to imagine what it must be like to be a normal spider, which is to say, absolutely terrifying for them. Like when we see a spider scurry across our living room floor, we'd imagine them hiding under our sofa, looking at a corner of our room, and making a mad dash for it. When really, even the spiders with the best eyesight (which isn't most house spiders) is only 2-3cm in the best of conditions. Like imagine being basically blind, knowing you have to find somewhere to set up your Web or you're gonna starve to death, and you have to make a suicidal sprint across a wide space that could be teeming with predators and you'd never know. Then halfway there, you feel vibrations that tell you you're not alone, and you freeze (cause most predators spot prey better when it's moving) and just pray you don't die. Like that is an absolutely terrifying way to live, no wonder they can't ever afford to show mercy to their prey when something finally lands in their Web (except somehow those spiders that let small frogs live in their nest, to keep it clean)
If I was in a town, where more and more spiders THIS BIG begin to show up, I'd run out of there so fast people would think I had a Delorean and went back to the future.
Part of what makes this movie stand out is the actual use of real live spiders for a LOT of the shots. It just cant be done anymore for lots of reasons. I remember seeing a behind the scenes video that shows how they'd use heat guns and other natural lures to lead spiders in certain directions for many of the close up shots.
This was the film that gave me my fear of spiders when i was a child. For such a simple and yet somewhat silly premise it still plays on your fears of spiders probably the best out of any film about killer spiders. Plus the one off with Jeff Daniels and the King and Queen spiders is amazing seeing a man fight something so small but so imposingly deadly while conquering his fear of spiders.
I have arachnophobia, so this movie scared the bajeepers out of me when I watched it as a kid. I needed the hallway light on before I went to sleep for a week because I was horrified.
This has to be one of the few movies that I will both recommend people watch, but even the scenes shown in this video made my lizard brain reel and my shoulders tighten. It isn’t so horrifying I can’t watch it, but it does make my imagination pause when reaching for the remote to turn it on or the drink I can’t see the other side of, while making me chuckle at some of the scenarios, even if just my dark little heart getting a spark of mirth from someone demise on screen.
🎶On the thirieth disneycember Doug gave to me THIRTY SMALL SPIDERS, twenty-nine bill murray's being bill murray's, tenty-eight great actors (RIP Robin Williams), twenty-seven gentle toros, twenty-six rogues, TWENTY-FIVE BAD SANTAS,twentyfour uninterested clerks, twentythree football balls, twenty-two lego star wars sets, twenty-one maroon cartoons, TWENTY HAMSTER BALLS, nineghteen ghosts, eighteen bodies, seventeen rockets, sixteen aliens, FIFTEEN TGIF SITCOMS, fourteen red hearts, thirteen unfunny parody movies, twelve transforemers, eleven waves made out of gold, TEN BIG SANDWICHES, nine mysterious calls, eight force witches, seven orphan girls, six broken Stalones, FIVE CAMEOS, four spider webs, three memory orbs, two Wolverine claws and a cigarette from the disney brand🎶
still waiting for: * Toy Story the Sega Genesis version * The Jungle Book both Sega Genesis & SNES versions * 101 Dalmatians the series * 101 Dalmatian Street * 102 Dalmatians * 102 Dalmatians the PS1 game * 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure the PS1 game (you reviewed the movie years ago now you gotta play the game) * Housebroken on Disneycember, last chance right now
I remember this film messing me up for decades! After seeing it for the first time as a child I had the most vivid nightmare of my life! The typical laying in bed on a stormy night, street light outside creating shadows of the rain streaking down the window to appear on the wall near my bed, then suddenly the shadows of the rain turned into hundreds of spiders crawling up the wall to the ceiling where they gathered over my bed and started rappelling down, I wasn't able to move and could only watch as they got closer and closer until one was right in front of my eyes and I woke up screaming! Of course it doesn't help matters that my older half brother, being the dickhead he is, told me that they had filmed parts of the movie not too far from where we lived at the time and that the spiders they used really were poisonous and during production some had escaped and could be anywhere! It took me until the last year or so to start getting over my fear thanks to those online videos of jumping spiders and even owning one as a pet, could never bring myself to let it crawl on me because I'm still paranoid of getting bitten.
I remember working the graveyard shift at a hotel doing accounting. It was 2am and my co worker was watching this on his phone. It was a slow night l, so we were watching it together and I had never seen the movie before. It terrified me and made my skin crawl. Let's just say, after that night I developed arachnophobia.
Fun fact about me and my connection to this film: we watched this on TV around the time it came out. That VERY same night, my siblings and I, all adolescent at the time, chose to sleep outside in a shed our father built. Needless to say, our imagination was on fire, and we were waiting for a spider to come and kill us. We were back inside within an hour and never tried that again.
If you ever see a spider in your shower area, it's NOT trying to jumpscare you while you're naked. It's thirsty, and it wanted to drink the droplets from the spouts.
Another movie Chris Stuckmann reviewed for the Halloween season that Doug reviewed for the Christmas season. Arachnophobia is definitely one of those movies you either like or don't, there's no in-between.
I remember watching Arachnophobia on TV when I was a kid, and the next day at school we all had to write a story. I couldn't come up with anything, so I basically just copied the movie, almost verbatim. My friends kept telling me that I was going to get in trouble from the teachers for writing a story about people getting killed by venomous spiders, that they'd know that I'd just copied a movie (it was literally on the night before) and that I'd be forced to write another story, but it didn't happen.
I only saw this movie once and I don't know why I never revisited it, but man, it did stick with me! There are so many scenes (includig many you showed here) that I vividly remember from this movie, like the spiders' venom glands or Daniels' character's monologue recounting the event that made him arachnophobic. It's a genuinly good flick that deserves to be talked about more and needs to be recommended to "Corridor Crew" for its often spectacular spider sfx!
Avondale Spiders were one of the species used in this film and they are the reason my dad has Arachnophobia, not because he saw this movie but when he was a kid he lived in Rural Auckland, in a house surroundee by bush and Avondale Spiders were everywhere including multiple under his bed sheets, on top of the toilet seat and even one jumping on him from the ceiling
I'm more familiar with Tiny Toon Adventures' spoof of the movie; "Skunknophobia". It was the subject of Shirley and Fowlmouth's subplot of the How I Spent My Vacation movie. Fowlmouth had seen the movie 100 times before and spoiled everything for everyone whenever he saw it (to the point where the movie itself had to be rated F - Not Suitable for Fowmouth). Eventually, the customers have enough of Fowlmouth spoiling the movie for them and toss him into the movie screen, where the actors tell him off by talking through the movie.
I remember this movie for only, like, the last 10 minutes or so. I remember when I was very young watching the last act on TV, and just being horrified by it. Now that I'm older...and I have heavy arachnophobia...I simply cannot go and watch this full movie. I simply can't. I hate spiders with a passion.
As someone with severe arachnophobia, this movie perfectly captures everything that makes spiders terrifying. Even the scene where a swarm of spiders is crawling all over the house and you're trapped inside with them, I've had many nightmares just like that.
My bio dad showed me this movie when I was a little kid (couldn't have been more than 4 or 5), and let me tell you. Traumatized the absolute HECK out of me. I was smol, with no way to distinguish reality and fiction, and I have such severe arachnophobia that I can't walk under trees or get in cars without making sure there's no spiders, and I can't drink from non see through cups. I'm working on it now, cause I found a youtuber who keeps spiders that also used to be afraid of spiders, but I don't think I'll ever be ok with spiders. Which is sad cause before I watched the movie, I loved spiders. I had a kids book that was non fiction that described a lotta stuff about spiders and it was my favorite book before I saw the movie!
The animatronic General Spider seen at the film's climax was one of the earliest prop jobs done by Jamie Hyneman, star and co-producer of MythBusters (2003).
On the 30th "DisneyCember" my Critic gave to Me... -. Thirty Creepy Spiders -. Twenty Nine Crazy Bill Murrays -. Twenty Eight Dramatic Robin Williams -. Twenty Seven Adorable Bulls -. Twenty Six Bounty Hunters -. Twenty Five Swearing Santas -. Twenty Four Kevin Smith Clerks -. Twenty Three "Disneyfied" Biopics -. Twenty Two Lego Jedis -. Twenty One Crazy Rabbits -. Twenty Spy Rodents -. Nineteen "Friendly" Ghosts -. Eighteen Gothic Legends -. Seventeen Unfunny Spacemen -. Sixteen "Alien" Movies -. Fifteen Decent Sitcoms -. Fourteen Teenage Villains -. Thirteen Spoof Movies -. Twelve Astronauts -. Eleven "T.V Pilots" -. Ten Fat Kids -. Nine Slasher Killers -. Eight Lame Jedis -. Seven Pointless Movies -. Six Cops From The Future FIVE SWEARING HEROES!! -. Four Spider-Man Games -. Three Complex Emotions -. Two Returning Mutants And a Twist Dance with a lot of Feet
So, the shower scene has happened to me. We had this little light fixture above our tub/shower and a spider had made its home up there. One day, while I'm in the shower, the spider lands on me. I swear, I have not screamed as loud as I did that day.
Did not know Disney retroactively and technically owned this one, but Yeah I think it is really good time too. I think it hits all the marks for what it sets out to do, with good directing, a good cast, and yeah it’s genuinely funny. It’s sorta tongue in cheek, but hits that right balance of actually trying to be tense. And I say that as someone who does not have a fear of spiders. I do sorta agree and see what doug is saying making spiders big is not what makes them scary, but I feel Kumonga from godzilla and eight legged freaks don’t completely fit into that as they aren’t trying to be scary like the others do. Eight legged freaks is also a fun movie too and kumonga is one of my favorite godzilla monsters. Also RIP Julian sands.
Does anyone else remember a movie that's basically a Bee version of this story? I just remember certain scenes like a couple of teenagers shooting a beehive with a shotgun, the majority of the bees miraculously surviving that and basically going ape shit and chasing them to a house that they completely swarm. It was pretty bonkers.
On the 30th day of Disneycember the critic gave for me: 30 scary SPIDEEERSSSS 29 Murrays improvs 28 genius Damons 27 ragging bulls 26 baby yodas 25 UA-cam santas 24... TWENTY-FOUR!... in a row? 23 football players 22 Lego pieces 21 silly wabbits 20 talking hamsters 19 TIMING ghosts 18 loudy crows 17 non Elton John biopics 16 "pure" species 15 boys... that meet.. world (i didn't saw the show sorry) 14 nepo babies 13 WAZAAAAA movies. 12 Bay-exploitations 11 shiny "turtles" 10 marshmallow pizzas 9 scary movies. 8 red shirt jedi 7 cats & mices 6 LAAAAUUUUU keepers FIVE WOLVERINEEES! 4 symbiote suits 3 new emotions 2 mutant team ups And a tasty Big Kahuna Burger
"DISNEY CEMBER 2024 BLOG DAY 30 enters your worst fears with "Arachnophobia" to quote Dr. smith "Spidersssssss" I don't just care for Spiders for pets to be honest unless it spiderman (& if anyone ask my worst fear is bein buried alive" I even have that as a nightmare) John goodman & Jeff Daniels did a good performance in a 1990 film but I hope some of these Spiders are Puppets but for me keep those Spiders away from me unleash the bug spray folks!"
Of course I remember watching this when I was younger but there was also that bee one that I remember too. Don't know the name but I remember 2 idiots shoot beehives with shotguns and piss em off and they get followed where the bees engulf an entire house and terrorize a family.
I luv this movie cuz not only is the main spider (Big Bob). This spider is a killing machine and not only is Jeff Daniels great in this movie with John Goodman and the other actors do a great job and even the effects are are still great to this day despite having no CGI.
I have a story about this film. I found it in a pile of re-recordable videotapes, and it wreaked my video player as it was very dusty. After my parents used a video cleaner, I was able to watch it. My cousin was visiting and playing with my sister, wanted to watch it with me. At what one part, I think it was when they showed the spider's nest, my sister screamed and ran out of the room. She had a dream that night of a giant spider attacking her, and had to sleep with my parents.
One scene that stuck out to me was him going after what he thought was a bigass spider with a rolled up magazine, like he wouldn't just piss it off 😂 And it's been ages but i remember the trailer had John Goodman yelling ""ROCK & ROLL" after getting all kitted out, but in the movie he hust mumbles it.
The smaller spiders in Arachnophobia are a species of huntsman spider called "social huntsmans" because they can live into family colonies of up to 300 and will share food. ALL of the spiders in this movie would have been related otherwise they would have been fighting and killing each other.
heh i still remember how i saw this the first time. i was maybe around 10years old when this aired on tv and i was alone at home playing nintendo (mom was single parent and a nurse at nightshift alot) and suddenly my grandma calls to me "i hope youre not watching that horror movie on tv" and rightaway NES shut down and i started browsing channels and saw this and only missed mostly the jungle part at the beginning.
Interesting thing I first saw this at my Dad’s place nearly 30 years ago or so or less, so I remember watching it in the tv in living then it broke down and we watched the rest in a black and white television. According to my mother I got scared of spiders after that.
When I was a boy (in the 90's), the big spider that terrified me was the spider from Alan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mines. I have seen it since and I was like : "What ?! This gave me nightmare ?" lol. Look it up, you will laugh.
Had a friend in high school who was legitimately arachnophobic, and we managed to actually get him into the theater to see this. He put on a brave face, clutching the wooden armrests of his seat through the entire movie. As soon as that massive spider leapt for the screen in the end fight, there was a sudden crack/snap from him. He had ripped the armrests right off the frame of the chair. We left the theater quietly soon after.
Personally, my favourite thing about this film has always been it’s Swedish title, ”Imse vimse spindel”, which translates to ”Itsy Bitsy Spider”. It just seems to perfectly fit the tone of the movie.
Eller hur? Tycker titeln är mycket passande på svenska
Having that title with the poster of the spider in front of the moon with the small town in the background… yeah I think that works a bit better in my opinion too.
"Spidersssssss!"
- Dr. Smith
Goddamnit Dr. Smith! 😂
You're about as subtle as trainwreck. On a boat.
"How could anyone be stupid enough to trust you? I mean, you're a freaking spider. A SPIDER!"
"Well, that seems hardly fair."
@@sebastianemond5313 *Chortles*
AN ENTIRE LEGION OF SPIIII-DAAAAA-HHHHHSSSSS!!!
I'm so scared of spiders that I can't handle a movie like this.
You’ve got… _Arachnophobia._
@@velociraptor4you3291 DUN DUN DUUUUUN!
@@falloutfreek1992 😄
Same. I enjoyed watching it as a teen but... for whatever reason, I just can't handle the scene with the big momma spider. Freaky deaky hell. I just can't deal with it.
@@PJVids83 Spidahs!! A giant legion of Spidahs!!
For those wondering they used Avondale spiders ( also known as communal huntsman spiders) and a Bird eating spider for the movie.
Is the Avondale the one they claim to have a venom that causes men to have a 4 hour rigor mortis in their penises when they die?
Oh wow! Probably why huntsman’s are the only large spiders that scare me. They jump and hide in trees lol. I love spiders tho I have a Green Bottle Blue tarantula female and I love jumping spiders!
Rest in Peace, Julian Sands, who went missing while hiking the San Gabriel Mountains near California in January 2023. His remains were discovered five months later.
Was he the guy who played the Warlock opposide Richard E Grant?
@@sheridan140 Yes, that was him. He was also in The Killing Fields, Naked Lunch, Leaving Las Vegas, A Room with a View, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
I'll always remember Julian Sands as the Warlock.
He's Valmont from Jackie Chan Adventures
Spiders got him. Shame.
I've been checking my shoes for over 30 years since seeing this in theaters as a kid.
After this movie you're paranoid for 2 days.
Totally, you can't shake off the paranoia after watching it.
@@MforMovesetsevery tickle on the back of your neck, or every itch on your leg when you're trying to sleep "it's probably nothing.... It's almost definitely nothing.... But just in case" and then you have to frantically attack wherever the itch or tickle is.
And the one time I assumed it wasn't anything, and casually went to scratch my side.... I felt wriggly legs, and jumped out of bed to find a huge spider had been climbing up my side, trying to find it's way out.
(and I can't ever forget when Britain had a pandemic of baby spiders building their webs over everybody's front doors, and I walked right through it, and was suddenly covered in what felt like millions of baby spiders, causing me to rush to the bathroom and have to wait for it to fill up, cause I still felt them all over me, and in my beard)
So even if you're 99% sure that tickle or itch isn't a spider... I've experienced that 1% twice
I’m in Texas,you have to check your boots and shoes as the scorpions and black widows love shoes.
A wasp has built a hive in my dad's boot once
Steven Spielberg wanted the Roger Rabbit short 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' to be shown in front of this movie, and Michael Eisner wanted it shown in front of 'Dick Tracy'. When Eisner got his way, this caused Spielberg to end his deal with Amblin and Disney and not make any more Roger Rabbit shorts after 'Trail Mix-Up'.
@@ryansalter2325 yeah no Eisner made the correct decision.
Wow way to kill it, Spielberg.
But then Spielberg gave us Animaniacs, so it all worked out.
@@Theonetruewonderfly except Roger wasn't really given much of a chance so... eh.
Yeah, That wouldah been a massive mistake, playing before Tracy worked better.
I loved John Goodman in this movie, for a moment I thought it was going to be an annoying character but he was a real scene stealer in this one
I agree, he doesn't get many scenes, but he steals them all, in true Goodman style.
Hells yeah, John's a national treasure!
Agreed, he brought his A-game here once again. It's impressive to see that he was that good even this early in his career.
He and the spiders are the only memorable characters in the movie. The others do their job, but ...
I THOUGHT that I'd seen this film when I was younger, but it turns out it was only "Eight Legged Freaks." Every Spider movie eventually blends into one! 🕸️🕷️
@@trinaq I still love that movie. Such a fun camp movie
@@trinaq tbf they do start off pretty similar, with the spiders starting off smaller, and never growing to be as huge as most spider horror movies. Plus usually it's just one giant spider, but both movies had swarms of them. Aaaaaand a lot of movies don't do their homework, and have dumb stuff like the spiders swallowing people whole, or tearing them apart. Arachnophobia and 8 Legged Freaks, actually had them Webbing up their prey to drain later (though thankfully for those people in the mines, the spiders didn't do what they usually do, and inject the people with a venom that turned their insides to liquid, so they could slurp them up later. Otherwise they would have been doomed from the moment they were taken there.)
Also, most of us know the movie as 8 Legged Freaks, but it's original name (and the name a lot of countries had the movie sold as) was originally "Arac Attack" which sounds similar to Arachnophobia That's why that one spider obsessed kid kept trying to make "Arac Attack" a thing, whenever a spider pounced.
So you might have seen it under that title, and not realised.
fun facts:
1. The actress who played the mother was also Agent Tanya in the Red Alert game
2. The movie was not called Eight Legged Freaks. At first they called it Arrak Attack... but it was during the Gulf war, so it was easy to hear Irak Attack.
That movie was called Arach Attack in some countries. So, it's easy to get mixed up with the similar names.
@@thegreatveritas another fun fact: Frank Welker did the vocal effects for the spiders
Fun fact from a complete internet stranger: I’m firmly convinced this movie is the legit reason I have arachnophobia. I don’t exactly remember why/how I saw the movie, aside from on the TV and not in theaters, but I very much remember the “climactic” battle at the end. Struggled with a fear of spiders since then. So, it was an aptly named movie!
@@Quillum That's exactly what happened to and how I got ny arachnophobia. When those tiny spiders crawled out of the sink... I was never the same.
Nothing fun about that.
I had a huge spider just casually crawling across the ceiling once.
I got mine after falling into a nest of Black Widows as a kid, seeing death crawling on you untill you get blasted with the jet part of the hose.
I've had arachnophobia as long as i can remember and this film has scared me as far back as I can remember. One of the most terrifying films ever made if you're deathly afraid of spiders. So many nightmare scenarios.
I watched it as a kid because I was afraid of spiders but I wanted to be brave, and Holy Crap. It was one of those films I watched a couple times but then not at all since xD
At last, Hollywood Pictures' first film is on Disneycember.
I was happily terrified of this movie but John Goodman playing a laid-back yet badass exterminator with a goofy song lightened the terror in the best way.
His theme song too lol
I saw the popcorn scene as a kid, and for years I was terrified to stick my hand in a bag/bowl of popcorn. And yep, 40 years old and still scared of spiders.
Fun fact: This was the first film Disney released under the Hollywood Pictures banner.
SPIDERS! A GIANT LEGION OF SPIIIIDERS!
You're about as subtle as a trainwreck. On a boat.
Yeah
0:19 I love eight-legged freaks it's one of my favorite movies of all time
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This movie has always held a special place in my memory because it was the first drive thru movie I ever saw, when I was like 13 or 14 me and my 2 best friends went to a drive thru where they were showing a double feature of this movie and Poltergeist, and so it really cemented this movie in my memory even though it’s a movie that I probably wouldn’t have remembered all these years later otherwise
Frank Marshall did a wonderful job with directing this.
My Arachnophobia is so bad that I got anxiety & almost broke out into tears watching this video...
I loved this movie as a kid. I’m not scared of spiders, but the thought of tiny death dealing stealth freaks is scary. But seeing Dan from Rosanne kill all of them in the end was epic
How did you not make a Madame Web joke when faced with a guy studying spiders in South America?!?
On the thirtieth day of disneycember my critic gave to me
30 arachnids scaring
29 bobs harassing
28 good wills hunting (they walked directly into that one)
27 bad best animated feature nominees sucking
26 Grogus growing
25 Santas swearing
24 minimum wage employees working
23 titans... Remembering? (idk I've never seen it)
22 minifigures moving (ON THEIR OWN, AHHHHH)
21 cartoons (not) framing
20 Guinea Pigs spying
19 scrats-a-spooking
18 crows ressurecting
17 rockets blasting
16 face huggers impregnating
15 generations defining
14 queens beheading
13 movies laughing
12 meteors falling
11 episodes stitching
10 movies trying
9 ghostfaces killing
8 acolytes dividing
7 tom and jerrys feuding
6 judges dreading
5 DOG DEADPOOOOOOOLS
4 kravens hunting
3 emotions jarring
2 mutents fighting
And every film students favorite movie
Brava, love it, as usual. I'll miss your creative comments, but I hope that you pick it up again next year.
Awesome job with the lyrics
This is great.
Thanks for the Best versión of the song this year
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John Goodman steals every scene he’s in. He’s certainly the best part of this movie.
One of the best creature feature films.
I think this may have been the first "Horror" movie that I saw in a theatre when I was a kid. It's an enjoyable movie that I've re watched a number of times.
How fitting. I literally just got out of the shower where there was a big spider I had to squish. It made a crunch sound.
It took me years to watch this! I had such a fear of spiders for years. It took years of jumping spider videos to get over it. Now I love them. They're cute, in an ugly sorta way.
Honestly for me, it was that isekai "So I'm a Spider, so What?", about this girl who died and got sent to a fantasy world as a spider monster in a fantasy dungeon.
The Web novel (cause it later became a manga and an anime, but the Web novel went a lot more into the experience of being a spider) did a fantastic job giving me a chance to imagine what it must be like to be a normal spider, which is to say, absolutely terrifying for them.
Like when we see a spider scurry across our living room floor, we'd imagine them hiding under our sofa, looking at a corner of our room, and making a mad dash for it. When really, even the spiders with the best eyesight (which isn't most house spiders) is only 2-3cm in the best of conditions.
Like imagine being basically blind, knowing you have to find somewhere to set up your Web or you're gonna starve to death, and you have to make a suicidal sprint across a wide space that could be teeming with predators and you'd never know.
Then halfway there, you feel vibrations that tell you you're not alone, and you freeze (cause most predators spot prey better when it's moving) and just pray you don't die.
Like that is an absolutely terrifying way to live, no wonder they can't ever afford to show mercy to their prey when something finally lands in their Web (except somehow those spiders that let small frogs live in their nest, to keep it clean)
Please do a full Nostalgia Critic review of this movie it deserves a full episode.
My whole family has loved this movie since it first came out. Even my dad, who is really afraid of spiders! 😅John Goodman steals the show!
The start of this film is reminding me a lot of Madam Web, do they kill the spiders with Pepsi?
If I was in a town, where more and more spiders THIS BIG begin to show up, I'd run out of there so fast people would think I had a Delorean and went back to the future.
Part of what makes this movie stand out is the actual use of real live spiders for a LOT of the shots. It just cant be done anymore for lots of reasons. I remember seeing a behind the scenes video that shows how they'd use heat guns and other natural lures to lead spiders in certain directions for many of the close up shots.
This was the film that gave me my fear of spiders when i was a child. For such a simple and yet somewhat silly premise it still plays on your fears of spiders probably the best out of any film about killer spiders. Plus the one off with Jeff Daniels and the King and Queen spiders is amazing seeing a man fight something so small but so imposingly deadly while conquering his fear of spiders.
The last scene in San Fransisco, puts everything back in perspective, about dealing with Mother nature. Wink!
Spielberg is STILL making great films. The Fablemans was wonderful, and one of his best.
I created a horror film at college about a guy that takes LSD and a giant spider appears in his hallucinations
May i see it?
@@jamescoppock4448 well damn
Unusually creepy sounding and definitely sounds like an original. 😅😅😅
Sounds like a fun watch! Anywhere to see it?
FINALLY! This is one I was hoping for a full NC on, but I'm just happy to see you cover it at all.
Can't believe they're trying to remake this...
That scene where the spider jumps out while in fire...
Gave me nightmares for days.
I’m terrified of spiders. This video was hard to watch in certain clips.
I wonder if Doug's review of EM: Rebrushed will be solely based on his live playthrough, or if he's done the Paint path on his own time.
I have arachnophobia, so this movie scared the bajeepers out of me when I watched it as a kid. I needed the hallway light on before I went to sleep for a week because I was horrified.
This has to be one of the few movies that I will both recommend people watch, but even the scenes shown in this video made my lizard brain reel and my shoulders tighten. It isn’t so horrifying I can’t watch it, but it does make my imagination pause when reaching for the remote to turn it on or the drink I can’t see the other side of, while making me chuckle at some of the scenarios, even if just my dark little heart getting a spark of mirth from someone demise on screen.
🎶On the thirieth disneycember Doug gave to me THIRTY SMALL SPIDERS, twenty-nine bill murray's being bill murray's, tenty-eight great actors (RIP Robin Williams), twenty-seven gentle toros, twenty-six rogues, TWENTY-FIVE BAD SANTAS,twentyfour uninterested clerks, twentythree football balls, twenty-two lego star wars sets, twenty-one maroon cartoons, TWENTY HAMSTER BALLS, nineghteen ghosts, eighteen bodies, seventeen rockets, sixteen aliens, FIFTEEN TGIF SITCOMS, fourteen red hearts, thirteen unfunny parody movies, twelve transforemers, eleven waves made out of gold, TEN BIG SANDWICHES, nine mysterious calls, eight force witches, seven orphan girls, six broken Stalones, FIVE CAMEOS, four spider webs, three memory orbs, two Wolverine claws and a cigarette from the disney brand🎶
still waiting for:
* Toy Story the Sega Genesis version
* The Jungle Book both Sega Genesis & SNES versions
* 101 Dalmatians the series
* 101 Dalmatian Street
* 102 Dalmatians
* 102 Dalmatians the PS1 game
* 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure the PS1 game (you reviewed the movie years ago now you gotta play the game)
* Housebroken
on Disneycember, last chance right now
I remember this film messing me up for decades!
After seeing it for the first time as a child I had the most vivid nightmare of my life!
The typical laying in bed on a stormy night, street light outside creating shadows of the rain streaking down the window to appear on the wall near my bed, then suddenly the shadows of the rain turned into hundreds of spiders crawling up the wall to the ceiling where they gathered over my bed and started rappelling down, I wasn't able to move and could only watch as they got closer and closer until one was right in front of my eyes and I woke up screaming!
Of course it doesn't help matters that my older half brother, being the dickhead he is, told me that they had filmed parts of the movie not too far from where we lived at the time and that the spiders they used really were poisonous and during production some had escaped and could be anywhere!
It took me until the last year or so to start getting over my fear thanks to those online videos of jumping spiders and even owning one as a pet, could never bring myself to let it crawl on me because I'm still paranoid of getting bitten.
On the thirty day of disneycember, the critic gave to me.
30 Spider Attacks
29 hilarious psychiatrists
28 mathematical Janitors
27 Gentle Bulls
26 baby Yodas
25 Naughty Santas
24 Funny Store clerks
23 Football games
22 Lego Space Battles
21 Cartoon Rabbits
20 Guinea Pig Agents
19 ghostly friendships
18 resurrected musicians
17 Mars missions
16 Alien invasions
15 Will Friedle sitcoms
14 Red Queens Ruling
13 scary parodies
12 meteor showers
11 Princesses sailing
10 Sandwiches
9 teens screaming
8 Jedi masters
7 cat and mouse adventures
6 Futuristic Officers
5 FUNNY SUPERHEROES
4 gliding spider-men
3 New Emotions
2 Nostalgic Mutants
and
A Tarantino movie
I'm deathly afraid of spiders because of this movie.
I've always been afraid of spiders. Even before i saw this movie.
I remember working the graveyard shift at a hotel doing accounting. It was 2am and my co worker was watching this on his phone. It was a slow night l, so we were watching it together and I had never seen the movie before. It terrified me and made my skin crawl. Let's just say, after that night I developed arachnophobia.
Fun fact about me and my connection to this film: we watched this on TV around the time it came out. That VERY same night, my siblings and I, all adolescent at the time, chose to sleep outside in a shed our father built. Needless to say, our imagination was on fire, and we were waiting for a spider to come and kill us. We were back inside within an hour and never tried that again.
If you ever see a spider in your shower area, it's NOT trying to jumpscare you while you're naked. It's thirsty, and it wanted to drink the droplets from the spouts.
Another movie Chris Stuckmann reviewed for the Halloween season that Doug reviewed for the Christmas season.
Arachnophobia is definitely one of those movies you either like or don't, there's no in-between.
I remember watching Arachnophobia on TV when I was a kid, and the next day at school we all had to write a story. I couldn't come up with anything, so I basically just copied the movie, almost verbatim. My friends kept telling me that I was going to get in trouble from the teachers for writing a story about people getting killed by venomous spiders, that they'd know that I'd just copied a movie (it was literally on the night before) and that I'd be forced to write another story, but it didn't happen.
Doug, you'd better not forget about epic mickey rebrushed.
That’s a good game and I’m glad it got a remake, It would be a great way to cap off Disneycember.
Maybe tomorrow.
Agreed!
@@matthewbuckley7757It's on sale for steam, though I didn't buy it, got enough platformers atm
Fr. I’ve been so excited for that. I hope he doesn’t forget
Never would i thought i would see Godzilla in a Disneycemeber review 0:16
I only saw this movie once and I don't know why I never revisited it, but man, it did stick with me! There are so many scenes (includig many you showed here) that I vividly remember from this movie, like the spiders' venom glands or Daniels' character's monologue recounting the event that made him arachnophobic. It's a genuinly good flick that deserves to be talked about more and needs to be recommended to "Corridor Crew" for its often spectacular spider sfx!
Avondale Spiders were one of the species used in this film and they are the reason my dad has Arachnophobia, not because he saw this movie but when he was a kid he lived in Rural Auckland, in a house surroundee by bush and Avondale Spiders were everywhere including multiple under his bed sheets, on top of the toilet seat and even one jumping on him from the ceiling
I'm more familiar with Tiny Toon Adventures' spoof of the movie; "Skunknophobia". It was the subject of Shirley and Fowlmouth's subplot of the How I Spent My Vacation movie. Fowlmouth had seen the movie 100 times before and spoiled everything for everyone whenever he saw it (to the point where the movie itself had to be rated F - Not Suitable for Fowmouth). Eventually, the customers have enough of Fowlmouth spoiling the movie for them and toss him into the movie screen, where the actors tell him off by talking through the movie.
“Spiders “
True, I used to get it mixed up with "Eight Legged Freaks", if only because they were both spider themed.
I remember this movie for only, like, the last 10 minutes or so. I remember when I was very young watching the last act on TV, and just being horrified by it. Now that I'm older...and I have heavy arachnophobia...I simply cannot go and watch this full movie. I simply can't. I hate spiders with a passion.
"They bite?"
"They kill, Mr. Manley, in sufficient numbers."
As someone with severe arachnophobia, this movie perfectly captures everything that makes spiders terrifying. Even the scene where a swarm of spiders is crawling all over the house and you're trapped inside with them, I've had many nightmares just like that.
My bio dad showed me this movie when I was a little kid (couldn't have been more than 4 or 5), and let me tell you. Traumatized the absolute HECK out of me. I was smol, with no way to distinguish reality and fiction, and I have such severe arachnophobia that I can't walk under trees or get in cars without making sure there's no spiders, and I can't drink from non see through cups. I'm working on it now, cause I found a youtuber who keeps spiders that also used to be afraid of spiders, but I don't think I'll ever be ok with spiders. Which is sad cause before I watched the movie, I loved spiders. I had a kids book that was non fiction that described a lotta stuff about spiders and it was my favorite book before I saw the movie!
Arachnophobia: If you didn't already have it, this movie will make sure you do.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 no kidding
One of the things I love about the movie is that during the final fight scene you can see a metal rod pushing the spider up the guys body
The animatronic General Spider seen at the film's climax was one of the earliest prop jobs done by Jamie Hyneman, star and co-producer of MythBusters (2003).
On the 30th "DisneyCember" my Critic gave to Me...
-. Thirty Creepy Spiders
-. Twenty Nine Crazy Bill Murrays
-. Twenty Eight Dramatic Robin Williams
-. Twenty Seven Adorable Bulls
-. Twenty Six Bounty Hunters
-. Twenty Five Swearing Santas
-. Twenty Four Kevin Smith Clerks
-. Twenty Three "Disneyfied" Biopics
-. Twenty Two Lego Jedis
-. Twenty One Crazy Rabbits
-. Twenty Spy Rodents
-. Nineteen "Friendly" Ghosts
-. Eighteen Gothic Legends
-. Seventeen Unfunny Spacemen
-. Sixteen "Alien" Movies
-. Fifteen Decent Sitcoms
-. Fourteen Teenage Villains
-. Thirteen Spoof Movies
-. Twelve Astronauts
-. Eleven "T.V Pilots"
-. Ten Fat Kids
-. Nine Slasher Killers
-. Eight Lame Jedis
-. Seven Pointless Movies
-. Six Cops From The Future
FIVE SWEARING HEROES!!
-. Four Spider-Man Games
-. Three Complex Emotions
-. Two Returning Mutants
And a Twist Dance with a lot of Feet
Somehow over the last 20 years or so, it's become my new years day tradition to watch arachnophobia
So, the shower scene has happened to me. We had this little light fixture above our tub/shower and a spider had made its home up there. One day, while I'm in the shower, the spider lands on me. I swear, I have not screamed as loud as I did that day.
Well tomorrow is epic Mickey for Disneycember
Spiders for me is what snakes are to Indiana Jones
Did not know Disney retroactively and technically owned this one, but Yeah I think it is really good time too. I think it hits all the marks for what it sets out to do, with good directing, a good cast, and yeah it’s genuinely funny. It’s sorta tongue in cheek, but hits that right balance of actually trying to be tense. And I say that as someone who does not have a fear of spiders.
I do sorta agree and see what doug is saying making spiders big is not what makes them scary, but I feel Kumonga from godzilla and eight legged freaks don’t completely fit into that as they aren’t trying to be scary like the others do. Eight legged freaks is also a fun movie too and kumonga is one of my favorite godzilla monsters.
Also RIP Julian sands.
I like how you use kumonga from Godzilla as an example of scary spiders
Alternate title for this movie:
“NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! HELL NO!!!”
R.I.P. Julian Sands his disappearance and death in 2023 was disturbing, my heart goes out to his loved ones, love him in this movie.
Does anyone else remember a movie that's basically a Bee version of this story? I just remember certain scenes like a couple of teenagers shooting a beehive with a shotgun, the majority of the bees miraculously surviving that and basically going ape shit and chasing them to a house that they completely swarm. It was pretty bonkers.
Arachnophobia, a FAMILY Picture😁🕷
On the 30th day of Disneycember the critic gave for me:
30 scary SPIDEEERSSSS
29 Murrays improvs
28 genius Damons
27 ragging bulls
26 baby yodas
25 UA-cam santas
24... TWENTY-FOUR!... in a row?
23 football players
22 Lego pieces
21 silly wabbits
20 talking hamsters
19 TIMING ghosts
18 loudy crows
17 non Elton John biopics
16 "pure" species
15 boys... that meet.. world (i didn't saw the show sorry)
14 nepo babies
13 WAZAAAAA movies.
12 Bay-exploitations
11 shiny "turtles"
10 marshmallow pizzas
9 scary movies.
8 red shirt jedi
7 cats & mices
6 LAAAAUUUUU keepers
FIVE WOLVERINEEES!
4 symbiote suits
3 new emotions
2 mutant team ups
And a tasty Big Kahuna Burger
The opening death scenes is one of my all time favorites
I never seen this film fully but I remember seeing clips of it as a kid
"DISNEY CEMBER 2024 BLOG DAY 30 enters your worst fears with "Arachnophobia" to quote Dr. smith "Spidersssssss" I don't just care for Spiders for pets to be honest unless it spiderman (& if anyone ask my worst fear is bein buried alive" I even have that as a nightmare) John goodman & Jeff Daniels did a good performance in a 1990 film but I hope some of these Spiders are Puppets but for me keep those Spiders away from me unleash the bug spray folks!"
This is one of those movies that people rarely bring up, but everyone *knows* of it. 🕷️
Of course I remember watching this when I was younger but there was also that bee one that I remember too. Don't know the name but I remember 2 idiots shoot beehives with shotguns and piss em off and they get followed where the bees engulf an entire house and terrorize a family.
I luv this movie cuz not only is the main spider (Big Bob). This spider is a killing machine and not only is Jeff Daniels great in this movie with John Goodman and the other actors do a great job and even the effects are are still great to this day despite having no CGI.
I have a story about this film. I found it in a pile of re-recordable videotapes, and it wreaked my video player as it was very dusty. After my parents used a video cleaner, I was able to watch it. My cousin was visiting and playing with my sister, wanted to watch it with me. At what one part, I think it was when they showed the spider's nest, my sister screamed and ran out of the room. She had a dream that night of a giant spider attacking her, and had to sleep with my parents.
Review The Jungle Book, Mowgli’s Story! I Beg You!
A little correction here, Doug.
If you bite/eat it and you die, it is poisonous!
If it bites you and you die, it is VENOMOUS!
One scene that stuck out to me was him going after what he thought was a bigass spider with a rolled up magazine, like he wouldn't just piss it off 😂
And it's been ages but i remember the trailer had John Goodman yelling ""ROCK & ROLL" after getting all kitted out, but in the movie he hust mumbles it.
Hey, that guy was in the Amazon with his family when he was researching spiders right before he died!
The smaller spiders in Arachnophobia are a species of huntsman spider called "social huntsmans" because they can live into family colonies of up to 300 and will share food. ALL of the spiders in this movie would have been related otherwise they would have been fighting and killing each other.
Jeff Daniels really is known for taking lots of physical punishment on screen. Speed, 101 Dalmatians, Dumb and Dumber, and this.
heh i still remember how i saw this the first time. i was maybe around 10years old when this aired on tv and i was alone at home playing nintendo (mom was single parent and a nurse at nightshift alot) and suddenly my grandma calls to me "i hope youre not watching that horror movie on tv" and rightaway NES shut down and i started browsing channels and saw this and only missed mostly the jungle part at the beginning.
Interesting thing I first saw this at my Dad’s place nearly 30 years ago or so or less, so I remember watching it in the tv in living then it broke down and we watched the rest in a black and white television. According to my mother I got scared of spiders after that.
Has an element of Jaws in it as well. Lot of spiders-view shots.
Rewatched recently, was a good time.
Took me a moment to remember this film, saw this quite a while back on TV.
When I was a boy (in the 90's), the big spider that terrified me was the spider from Alan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mines. I have seen it since and I was like : "What ?! This gave me nightmare ?" lol. Look it up, you will laugh.
A few years ago, my mom had a spider land on her in the shower, just like in this movie. And she reacted very similarly to the character in the movie.
Arachnophobia is such BS....if two spiders wanna marry each other then let em, they're not hurting anyone
Get off the stage.
_Badam tissss!_
Take my wife. No seriously, take her.