Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia

Theatrical - Wide 1990-07-20

Cast Jeff Daniels John Goodman Julian Sands Brian McNamara Stuart Pankin
Directed by Frank Marshall
Written by Don Jakoby Wesley Strick

Box Office Gross: $53,200,000

Running Time: 109 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Amblin Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Tangled Web Productions

Genres: Comedy Horror

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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... See more 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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