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Status: Released

Runtime: 80

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: en

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  • Тарантул
Content Score: 100

(1955)

6.0/10 (16 votes)

Overview

A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

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More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape!

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Director: Jack Arnold
Writers: ,

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John Agar

John Agar
as Dr. Matt Hastings

Mara Corday

Mara Corday
as Stephanie 'Steve' Cla…

Leo G. Carroll

Leo G. Carroll
as Prof. Gerald Deemer

Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva
as Sheriff Jack Andrews

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A review by John Chard

Can all mankind escape the terror of its dread embrace...

Professor Gerald Deemer has been working on a special nutrient that will help offset a predicted food shortage, the serum he has created escalates growth in his lab animals at an alarmingly quick rate. Deemer quickly loses control of the experiment and during a fight at his lab a fire breaks out and a Tarantula that is already 50 sizes bigger than it should be, escapes, and soon all species are on the menu!

Tarantula is a big personal fave of mine from this particular genre, so I make no apologies for my uncontrolled bias! The film... read the rest.