Arachnophobia (film)

Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror comedy film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. It was the first film released by Hollywood Pictures, as well as being the directorial debut of Marshall.

Entomologist Dr. James Atherton Julian Sands searches the Amazon rainforest with the hope of discovering new species of insects and arachnids. Descending into an enormous sinkhole, his team sets up collectors on the ground below a large tree, then blow smoke up into the canopy of the tree. A large number of bugs fall into the collector, including a very aggressive new species of spider. The spider is captured and chloroformed for research and is later revealed to be lacking sex organs, thus making it a drone, or soldier, highly unusual in an arachnid species. A nature photographer, Jerry Manley Mark L. Taylor, who has been suffering a fever while traveling with the team, unknowingly has a fertile nondrone male spider of the same species jump into his backpack, that night sneaking into his sleeping bag and biting him. Manley has a massive seizure from the venom and dies. The remainder of the scientists takes his body back to the United States, blaming Manleys death on the preexisting fever. The spider crawls into the box and is sealed in with the corpse.Manleys body arrives at the funeral home in his small town of Canaima, California and mortician Irv Kendall Roy Brocksmith does not notice the spider inside the coffin when he opens it. The spider makes it outside, only to be picked by a crow. Before the crow gets back to its nest, the spider bites it and it falls to the ground dead, in front of the barn of the Jennings family. Ross Jennings Jeff Daniels is a family physician, who had moved to the town from San Francisco, and faces a lack of patients due to elderly rival Sam Metcalf Henry Jones, who was supposed to retire and shift his patients to Ross, but decided to maintain his practice. ........

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