

Arachnophobia
Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude.
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 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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $31M
- Box office
- $53.2M
- Language
- English
- small town
- spider
- animal attack
- outbreak
- creature
- exterminator
- spider bite
- creature feature
- spider queen
- invasive species
- arachnophobia
- animal horror
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1320 Jul 1990
- PhysicalPG-13Hollywood Pictures Home Video #1080 [VHS] 110 minutes11 Feb 1992
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG3 Jan 1991
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG26 Dec 1990
BrazilBR
- Theatrical149 Oct 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical17 Apr 1991
- PhysicalDVD14 Dec 1999
- Digital / OTTDisney+23 Feb 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical169 Oct 1990
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1624 Jan 1991
MexicoMX
- PremiereCine Latino Plus1 Jan 1991
- Theatrical31 Jan 1991
NetherlandsNL
- TV1420 Jul 1990
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1618 Jan 1991
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1513 Jun 1992
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Arachnophobia was released on 20 July 1990.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
10/4/2019
The itsy-bitsy spider crawled up the water spout; down came the rain and washed the spider out. When a photographer is bitten and killed by a spider in the Venezuelan jungle, his body is shipped back to his home town of Canaima in California. Unfortunately something has hitched a ride in his coffin... Mixing "B" movie conventions with a modern day fun sensibility, Arachnophobia sees Frank Marshall direct and Je…
- K8/10
kevin2019
6/21/2026
"Arachnophobia" is structured along reasonably simplistic lines and it is obviously geared more towards squeezing every last second of excitement and tension from the climatic sequences when the arachnids are out in the open for the first time. The unheralded spider unit responsible for achieving all these terrific sequences must be wholeheartedly congratulated for some sterling work with the spiders scuttling around…
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