Review of Arachnophobia (1990) by Steven1981 — 27 Apr 2020

Arachnophobia is a strange film, because it's documented as being a horror comedy but I saw or found nothing whatsoever amusing in it or funny and if there was it's not enough to class it as a comedy. To me it's watered down horror because it's not really gory and it's a PG rated certificate film as far as I'm aware yet there's the elements of terror in it.

It's pretty well made and the film starts with some guy getting biten by a spider and his corpse sent elsewhere yet when he reaches the other end in some box or something a spider has eaten all his skin from his corpse or sucked his body dry or something which is unsettling especially if a kid saw this so it's dumb it's a PG certificate.

Jeff Daniels finds out he has a nest of spiders in his barn or something and spiders basically terrorise the people and locals. John Goodman was stupid and his character as an exterminator or something was unnecessary and I didn't find him the slightest bit funny, just crap basically and he's a horrible actor.

Besides his crap performance all the cast were pretty good and the story was great and besides John Goodman's character the film didn't get stupid. It's a classic in my opinion and always carries tension and one of them films you can watch over and over and it's never boring.