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Release Date:
18 July 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude. more
Plot:
South American killer spider hitches a lift to the US in a coffin and starts to breed and kill. full summary | add synopsis
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Spider
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Doctor
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Small Town
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Coffin
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Exterminator
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Awards:
2 wins
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5 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(24 articles)
William Shatner’s ‘Kingdom of the Spiders’ Coming To DVD
(From The Flickcast. 19 November 2009, 3:30 PM, PST)
Casting: Thomas Dekker in Elm Street; Patrick Wilson in Morning Glory
(From FirstShowing.net. 15 April 2009, 9:04 PM, PDT)
(From The Flickcast. 19 November 2009, 3:30 PM, PST)
Casting: Thomas Dekker in Elm Street; Patrick Wilson in Morning Glory
(From FirstShowing.net. 15 April 2009, 9:04 PM, PDT)
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Scariest Movie Ever!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeff Daniels | ... | Dr. Ross Jennings |
 | Harley Jane Kozak | ... | Molly Jennings |
 | John Goodman | ... | Delbert McClintock |
 | Julian Sands | ... | Doctor James Atherton |
 | Stuart Pankin | ... | Sheriff Lloyd Parsons |
 | Brian McNamara | ... | Chris Collins |
 | Mark L. Taylor | ... | Jerry Manley |
| Henry Jones | ... | Doctor Sam Metcalf |
 | Peter Jason | ... | Henry Beechwood |
| James Handy | ... | Milton Briggs |
| Roy Brocksmith | ... | Irv Kendall |
| Kathy Kinney | ... | Blaire Kendall |
| Mary Carver | ... | Margaret Hollins |
 | Garette Ratliff Henson | ... | Tommy Jennings (as Garette Patrick Ratliff) |
| Marlene Katz | ... | Shelley Jennings |
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103 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby SR (35 mm prints)
Certification:
USA:PG-13 (certificate #30592) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Iceland:14 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG
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"Canaima" (the town attacked by the spiders) is the name of the avenging spirit of the Guyana Indians. It's also the name the area in Venezuela where the beginning of the movie was filmed and home to the world's tallest waterfall, Angel Falls. The actual town in the movie is Cambria, California, and there is a scene shot in the gymnasium of the local Coast Joint Union High School.
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Revealing mistakes: 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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Referenced in The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live (1998) (TV)
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Blue Eyes Are Sensitive To The Light
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I've seen a lot of movies in my life...too many movies some might say. I have never been so scared in a movie than I was with "Arachnophobia".
I'm terrified of spiders. I think everything about them is just evil. And don't give me that "They eat bugs" bull, I don't care, spiders are still evil. My wife kills the spiders in our home. I know that's pathetic, but she earned that duty.
See, I would've never seen "Arachnophobia" had it not been for my wife, then fiance.
While it was in theaters, my buddies all wanted to see it, but in fear of wetting myself in front of them, I told them that I had other plans.
Fast forward four years, my fiance & I were at our local Blockwood video store, looking for the perfect scary movie, and she finds "Arachnophobia", knowing darn well that I'm terrified of spiders.
She asks if we can get it, and I agree, trying not to look like a pansy in front of the girl I want to spend my life with. By the end of the movie, I was as white as a sheet and gripping her hand so tight, she couldn't feel anything in her hand. I seriously spent most of the movie with my eyes closed.
For that reason, she kills the spiders in our home. She felt so bad about scaring me like that.
I know that there are quite a bit of you that think this movie is too humorous to be scary. That's biggest load I've ever heard.
If you hate spiders, DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!