This is a very good movie.

I live in house full of spiders. This movie makes you think twice about that harmless spider crawling across your floor right now.

The movie takes a little while to get going and has a anoying charactor but it makes up for it. John Goodman is great in it. It is very underated. Watch it!

I really love this film. I don't think a whole lot of people are crazy about spiders, me included, but director Frank Marshall has crafted a film that defies any category. A very smart, literate script cleverly layered the tension as we, the audience, learn along with the characters. We are given a head-start, and that makes it fun.The acting is very fine overall, especially Jeff Daniels as our not-so-wimpy hero. Henry Jones (the old doctor) and Harley Jane Kozak (I'd like to see her more often) were excellent, and John Goodman was a treat. More than the absolute fun that this movie offers, I was particularly overwhelmed by the Score of Trevor Jones, and was equally impressed with the crisp cinematography of Mikael Salomon; his magnificent shots of the Amazon as well as the attention to detail regarding the creepy crawlies is admirable. I find this is a film I like to watch over & over again. Humor and suspense have rarely been blended so well.

"Arachnophobia" is a clever comedy/thriller sure to scare the spider-phobes out there. Jeff Daniels and Harley Jane Kozak star as Dr. Ross and Molly Jennings, a young couple who have moved to the country to start his medical practice. Little do they know that a huge, deadly spider has arrived from South America and is reproducing - a lot! One by one, town residents start dropping like flies, until Ross figures out they were all bitten by spiders. This brings back memories of a childhood trauma that left him with a paralyzing fear of spiders - and the spider's nest is right in Ross' barn.

There are many creepy scenes of menacing spiders that will have you looking around to make sure none are near you. They must have used some robotic spiders, but they all looked very real to me. The idyllic rural setting contrasts nicely with the intensely scary stalking spiders. Daniels is perfect as the dedicated doctor, and John Goodman has a small but funny part as an exterminator. The movie may be too scary for very young children, but others will giggle a little and gasp a lot.

Kona

I do like parts of this movie and im happy I own it anyway BUT an that's a big BUT this isn't much of a spider movie.This is a movie i would let and 8 year old watch.I would recomend this as a great movie to introduce horror movies to kids.Its not scary in the least hell they could show this movie un edited on TV its like a family freindly creature feature.So while I do like it there are plenty of better spider movies out there (...)

Director: Frank Marshall
Cast: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak.
Running Time: 110 minutes.
Rated PG-13 for arachnid violence and language.

In true Spielberg-formula fashion, director Frank Marshall (who produced many of Spielberg's works during the 1980's) creates a tense, atmospheric thriller that has enough scares and laughs for two movies. A deadly South American spider is accidentally braught to a small, country town--the spider proceeds to kill of many of the inhabitants and gives birth to hundreds of venomous spawn. Small-town doctor Jeff Daniels, who happens to be horrified of the eight-legged beasts, must conjure up enough strength to save his community, and more importantly his family from the threatening bugs.

John Goodman is down-right hilarious as the Rambo-esque terminator, using a splendid script to invoke many laughs throughout the picture. Daniels is equally good as the tormented M.D., running around like a petrified girl scout at the beginning of the film, but ultimately encounters the mother-spider for the showdown of all man vs. spider showdowns. A fun, exciting scare fare that is actually viewable for most of the family due to its fairly low amounts of violence and profanity.