On what scares people, you can earn a lot of money. Filmmakers know this very well. That is why films are made about ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle, maniacs, the living dead. They also shoot horror films about spiders. So let's talk about them. We will find out which films about these arthropods are the most popular, we will tell you more about each of them.
Films 1950-1960
Exactly in the mid-1950s, director Jack Arnold suggested that the audience fantasize on the topic "How to survive if you are hunted to indecent by a huge and terrible spider", creating the picture "Tarantula". This director and creator of such cinematic hits as “Creating from the Black Lagoon” and “Incredibly Losing Weight”, and this time proved his ability to create truly scary movies. This horror movie about spiders today is called a masterpiece.
In 1966, director Don Chaffey followed the path of the aforementioned colleague and was able to emotionally affect the audience with his film "A Million Years BC". Chaffey sends us to the distant past, where the heroine in a fur bikini performed by sexy Raquel Welch is trying to survive in a world where these arthropods with eight legs are the main danger. They, as you understand, are much larger, faster and gluttonous than their modern counterparts. This old spider horror movie can scare anyone today!
In the Japanese Fukuda in the 1967 project, "Godzilla's Son," a huge spider nicknamed Kumonga engages in battle with a giant lizard, awakened after the explosion of a hydrogen bomb. Next to these two “horror stories” one more creature commensurate with them is walking - a multi-mantis mantis, which is assigned a secondary role in this story.
Director John Bad Cardos decided not to go to the smallest detail, therefore, in his project “The Kingdom of Spiders,” he employed the many-thousand “army” of these arthropods who migrate through the farm of the main character, Reck Hansen, moving towards the city. In this popular horror film about spiders, the main roles were played by William Shetner, Woody Strode, Tiffany Bolling and others.
Horror 1980-1990
In 1981, the topic of spider attacks on people was somewhat fed up with the big audience, because the director in 1981 in his film “The Seventh Gates of Hell” made it secondary. The loudest name suggests that the key enemies of the protagonists of this project are not these bloodthirsty arthropods, but more powerful creatures who arrived on Earth from the other world.
In the early 1990s, the famous producer and director Stephen Spielberg became interested in spiders, who suggested that budding director Frank Marshall make the film Arachnophobia: Fear of Spiders. Spielberg and his colleague created a horror movie about spiders, which is flavored with a considerable bit of black humor. The tape did not become a bestseller, but it was not among the outsiders of the world hire.
In 1991, the Soviet director Vasily Mass visualized the story of a sitter, whom the artist comes to in her dreams, with her writing a portrait of Maria Magdalena, in the form of a spider, to take possession of her body and soul. In this film, which is difficult to attribute to canonical horror films, the following actors starred as Spider: Romuald Antzans, Saulius Balandis, Aurelia Anuzhite.
2000s paintings
The director Jack Sholder in the Spanish horror film about spiders "Arachnid" in 2001 could not do without aliens. Aliens flew to one of the islands in the Pacific Ocean to spread the virus there, turning people into huge arthropods that feed exclusively on humanity. A team of professionals sent to this island to solve this monstrous problem will have to do throughout the film not so much the task assigned to them by the leadership, but how to save their own lives.
In 2002, director Ellory Elkayem made the film Spider Attack. You can already guess what this movie is about by name. The director, known as the creator of several parts of the project “Return of the Living Dead”, told a rather interesting story, in which there is something that reminds of old horror films. Many critics call Spider Attack his best offspring. You can agree with them or argue by looking at this picture.
Films shot in the 2010s
In 2013, the picture "Spiders" was released in 3D. It was created by the famous director Tibor Takach. In this film, the cause of the massive proliferation of poisonous spiders in New York City is the fall of the Soviet space station. $ 7 million was spent on the production of this painting. Many of the audience scolded the film for the inexpressive play of the actors, and some like it with its special effects.
We hope that in the future we will see new horror films about spiders that will surpass their predecessors, especially since the rapid development of science and technology allows this to be done.