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21 utilisateurs sur 24 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
itsie bitsie spider, 1 juin 2003

Auteur : colinwhitefan

I have seen this movie a lot since it came out and everytime I still don't get bored with it, Jeff Daniels as Dr. Ross Jennings is great, lots of cool stuff in this movie and especially if you like those spiders. John Goodman was awesome as Delbert McClintock the local exterminator, this movie will keep you at the edge of your seat. Arachnophobia is a must see for horror and spider fans, its a nice piece of movie making.

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Freakish thriller, 10 novembre 2000

Auteur : jhaggardjr de Chicago, Illinois

"Arachnophobia" is a very entertaining horror movie produced by Steven Spielberg. It's takes the fear of spiders to the next level. The film opens with an expedition in South America where a very deadly tarantula puts the bite on an American photographer, killing him in the process. Just before the body gets transferred back to the U.S., the spider sneaks into the coffin. Once in the states, the tarantula quickly mates with a domestic house spider and that creates the ultimate nightmare. Before you know it, a new strain of spiders have been born, that these little creepy crawlers are just as lethal! Jeff Daniels is excellent as the new doctor in town who hates spiders. He begins to realize something strange is happening. A couple of deaths occur, and the doc feels that these unexpected demises might be spider related. And man it's a scary ride to the finish. "Arachnophobia" literally gave me the creeps. And it's also funny. Many of the film's comedy is provided by John Goodman as the town exterminator. He's literally a hoot. The thing about this movie that surprised me is that I was pulled into the story right from the beginning and it kept my attention all the way to the end. "Arachnophobia" was directed by Frank Marshall, Spielberg's long time collaborater, in his directorial debut. Marshall did a very good job his first time out helming a film which looked like a promising career move at first. He made his second film, "Alive" a few years later (I've not seen this one yet). Then he made "Congo", which was one of the worst movies of 1995, and hasn't directed another movie since (at least not to my knowledge). But "Arachnophobia" was an above average debut for Marshall. He's got good potential as a director. This isn't a brilliant movie, but a good one. And it's lots of fun. One word of warning: if you have a fear of spiders, don't watch this. You'll probably hate it. Don't say I didn't warn you.

*** (out of four)

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Ewwww, Spiders..., 13 février 2005

Auteur : Ryan (rkuhn_psu@yahoo.com) de King of Prussia, PA

Spiders are not a favorite of many people, something about eight legs does not appeal to the masses. The movie Arachnophobia plays on the fears of an audience, while mixing in enough humor to engage the viewer with a standard horror story. Jeff Daniels plays a big city doctor who moves out into the country to take over the practice of the soon-to-be retiring doctor who has served for about 140 years or so. The Daniels' character is also scared of spiders, so when killer spiders enter the town, we have the standard ingredients to the standard horror movie. The spiders look convincing enough to scare almost anybody, and the exterminator, played by John Goodman, offers enough jokes to lead to an entertaining movie. There is nothing Earth-shattering about the film, but for popcorn season, this movie will not disappoint.

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Arachnophobia is a good spider flick!, 20 octobre 2002

Auteur : Movie Nuttball de U.S.A.

Arachnophobia is a great spider film that stars Jeff Daniels,Harley Jane Kozak,John Goodman, Julian Sands, and Peter Jason. The film isn`t really scary but its the creepyness that gets to you! Arachnophobia has good acting and it has a great beginning! Good music too! I recommend Arachnophobia to all creature and horror film fans alike!

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Realism Colors This Creature Feature, 7 juin 2007

Auteur : Fiendish_Dramaturgy de .: Fiendish Writings in the Dark :.

Spielberg either hits or misses, there are few who fall through the cracks of the mediocre. This one was the exception, at least as far as box office response is concerned. It didn't bomb, but it failed to generate the deserving revenue.

Jeff Daniels had promise as a leading man, at the time this was filmed. That promise has since been broken with movies like Dumb and Dumber, 101 Dalmatians, and My Favorite Martian, but he still has what it takes in the Squid and the Whale, Gods and Generals, and Good Night and Good Luck. But then he goes and does something ridiculous like RV. Ah well. I digress.

When Arachnophobia was filmed, Daniels was a competent and talented leading actor. His performance is completely believable and actually lacks that feeling of being mis-cast as do his comedic roles. I do have to say that I prefer him as a serious actor to his comedic attempts.

This film, however, has been constructed in a less grand scale than Shatner's 1977 Kingdom of the Spiders. As a result, Arachnophobia is far more realistic than the overdone KotS. The antagonists exhibit realism, are not three stories tall, and the acting quality better reflects the talents of the actors involved.

All in all? This is pretty atmospheric and generates some great taut suspense. It's definitely a creature feature worth watching.

It rates an 8.4/10 from...

the Fiend :.

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A Spider from South America comes to The US in a man's coffin and starts killing people in a small town., 2 juin 2005

Auteur : boondock_saint_la de Etats-Unis

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This is a great film on spiders. I first saw this when I was a child. I am proud to say I have it in my DVD collection. This movie has two big stars in it that I feel give a good performance. They are John Goodman and Jeff Daniels. Daniels plays a doctor from a big city who is to take over as the head doctor in a small town. When he gets there though the old man thats supposed to retire does not feel his is ready to retire. John Goodman plays an exterminator. You have to see the movie to know more on it.

The story is pretty good. It may require some thinking. It is like this. The opening scene is a guy going on a trip to South America. After taking picture some pictures he goes to sleep in his tent back where they are staying. A very venomous and deadly spider crawls into his tent and bites him. They way this bite works is he goes into like a seizure for a few seconds and then he kills over. He complained of a fever when he was there so they though it was the fever that killed him. When they are shipping the body back to the US the spider crawls into his coffin.

When they get to America the spider finds its way into a barn. In the barn it breeds and creates smaller faster versions of itself. Very slowly people in the town die. The new town doctor decides to get to the bottom of this.

I recommend that everybody see this movie. I think it is a pretty good thriller movie. The spiders can look creepy and is a must see for any spider fan. Don't be turned off by films like spiders 1 and 2. Don;t let a movie that is over done with action and special effects like eight legged freaks. This is a good popcorn movie. So if you like thriller movies go watch this.

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highly recommended, 1 juin 2003
Auteur : Special-K88

Dr. Ross Jennings is a renowned doctor from the big city who relocates to a small town in the country. Not only does he not fit in with the local residents, but he also has an uncontrollable fear of spiders which are prevalent in the surrounding area. To make matters worse, a new, lethal breed of spider has made its way from South America to their hometown, and produced a far more deadly breed that's slowly taking over their once peaceful little community. Exciting, creepy thriller with first-rate effects, hair-raising chills, and an excellent cast. Not for the easily disturbed or anyone with the titular fear, especially at the film's nail-biting finale. ***

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An arachnophobe's worst nightmare - Eight Legs, two fangs, and an attitude!, 25 janvier 2009

Auteur : dee.reid de Etats-Unis

(One bite from one of these bad boys, and trust me, you won't be getting spider-like powers!!!)

Just to get this out of the way, I'm not scared of spiders (I'm not an "arachnophobe"), so I have to fake it here, somewhat. While I don't necessarily have a fear of spiders, I don't particularly like them, and I try to maintain a sense of compassion for these delicate and majestic creatures by not squashing them when I find them inside my house and instead collecting them up and releasing them back out to the wild.

But "Arachnophobia" carries the danger of just plain giving me the creeps and throwing me into pure, 100% arachnophobia. Every time I watch it or when I'm just flipping through the channels, I still have to check everywhere around me to make sure there are no eight-legged creepy-crawlers creepy-crawling around.

"Arachnophobia" is one of the most distressing horror films I've ever seen, and remember, I'm not even scared of spiders. It's also just plain one of the most frightening horror movies I've ever seen. It succeeds by exploiting one of the most common fears that I'm sure most people have, and this can be quite distressing for anyone who actually does have a fear of spiders. Yet despite its frightening, creepy-crawly delights, only occasionally does this movie actually take itself seriously. Why? Because it's a horror-comedy, and an occasionally very funny one at that.

The film begins with an American expedition in a previously unexplored part of the Venezuelan jungle, where a new species of spider has just been discovered. It's a big, mean killing machine, and it kills one of the members on the team and hitches a ride back to the States in his coffin, to a picturesque Southern Calfornia community. After mating with a domestic spider, a deadly, unholy brood hatches from a large pulsating egg sac and begins terrorizing the town. An elderly widow keels over in her living room. The star quarterback drops dead on the field during football practice.

Dr. Ross Jennings (a believable and well-cast Jeff Daniels), his wife Molly (Harley Jane Kozak), and their kids move into the same house where the deadly Venezuelan spider and its domestic mate have also taken up residence in the barn. Ross's dream of a booming practice goes up in flames when the doctor he's supposed to replace decides not to retire. His other dream of a wine cellar is also destroyed due to the dry-rotting carpentry. And then those pesky spiders later move into the basement, which is just more bad news for Ross, who has a paralyzing fear of arachnids.

Jennings theorizes that the deaths are the work of a deadly new species of spider and of course he's right. But it's not going to be easy to convince the chief of police and the other townspeople of what's at stake. That's when a world-renowned expert on arachnids, Dr. Atherton (Julian Sands), is called in to investigate. Atherton is also the same scientist who first encountered the lethal eight-legged creepy-crawler in Venezuela.

"Arachnophobia," for all its creepy-crawly delights, is still a very frightening movie experience. It's also very funny. Much of the humor is provided by John Goodman as the good-hearted local exterminator Delbert McClintlock, who's forced to bring out the big guns because the eco-friendly chemicals he's been using for years are no longer effective against this bigger and badder new breed of mutant, eight-legged freaks. Produced by Steven Spielberg, "Arachnophobia" director Frank Marshall put forth enormous craft in balancing the horror and humor elements of the story and not really jeopardizing any of his credibility. His ingenious use of live (non-lethal) spiders and animatronic ones is all of skillful and brilliant.

After watching this movie, whether you're scared of spiders or not, you'll be checking your bedsheets for weeks afterward.

8/10

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It made my Skin Crawl, 15 janvier 2005

Auteur : mjw2305 de England

As a movie this isn't really all that great. The cast, the script and the direction are all adequate, and there's nothing really special about it as a movie. Yet i have scored it 7/10, seems weird; but let me tell you why.

If the bugs had been something other than spiders then i would have given this a 5 or 6, that is about the score it deserves as a movie, but if your like me, and your an arachnophobe then this movie surpasses this score significantly, it makes your skin crawl and has you thinking every shadow is a spider for weeks afterwards. Aside from scaring the s**t out of me it also made me laugh a lot.

For arachnophobes, who enjoy a fright this is the film for you

7/10

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Scariest Movie Ever!, 16 novembre 2002
Auteur : tayster12-5 de SLC, Utah

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!

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