Arachnophobia (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands
Synopsis:
A naturalist on an expedition to Venezuela unwittingly sends one of the deadly spiders he has discovered back in a coffin with its first victim, and a Californian town is threatened.
Review:
Quite effective suspenser, though very manipulative and rather improbable in places (the spiders have prodigious leaping skills). It never caps the bravura opening sequence featuring a descent into a lost hole in the jungle, and the scene in which the hero throws his stock of Château Margaux at the encroaching arachnids bottle by bottle is just too silly for words.
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands
Synopsis:
A naturalist on an expedition to Venezuela unwittingly sends one of the deadly spiders he has discovered back in a coffin with its first victim, and a Californian town is threatened.
Review:
Quite effective suspenser, though very manipulative and rather improbable in places (the spiders have prodigious leaping skills). It never caps the bravura opening sequence featuring a descent into a lost hole in the jungle, and the scene in which the hero throws his stock of Château Margaux at the encroaching arachnids bottle by bottle is just too silly for words.
Country: US
Technical: col 109m
Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands
Synopsis:
A naturalist on an expedition to Venezuela unwittingly sends one of the deadly spiders he has discovered back in a coffin with its first victim, and a Californian town is threatened.
Review:
Quite effective suspenser, though very manipulative and rather improbable in places (the spiders have prodigious leaping skills). It never caps the bravura opening sequence featuring a descent into a lost hole in the jungle, and the scene in which the hero throws his stock of Château Margaux at the encroaching arachnids bottle by bottle is just too silly for words.