When Becky sees the spider in the shower, there are two instances when you can see the bodystocking she's wearing, covering her breasts, to preserve her modesty, most noticeable when she screams. See more...
The title of this movie comes from the clinical name for fear of spiders, arachnophobia. This name has its origins in Greek mythology. The goddess Athena got furious with a girl named Arachne over a weave she'd made which she claimed was better than anything Athena could produce. In her wrath Athena ruined the weave, and in her despair Arachne ran to the woods and hung herself. Athena felt bad about what had happened, so she found Arachne and gave her life again. She said that she would forever weave the most beautiful things, but people would seldom appreciate it or even notice it. She had turned Arachne into a spider. Arachnophobia, fear of spiders, fear of Arachne and her offspring. There are of course variations of this myth, but this is where the name for fear of spiders comes. See more...
Directed by Frank Marshall, starring Jeff Daniels, John Goodman (add more)
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When Jeff Daniels is in bed and he thinks he sees a spider on the wall across from him but it turns out just to be a clothes peg, look carefully, they did use a fake spider then swapped it with a peg. The easiest way to tell is because the top left leg disappears when he gets closer to the spider. [The first shot with the spider is a "perspective" shot. It's what Dr. Jennings sees, not what's actually there.]
Corrected by Phixius
The deaths as a result of the spider bite are quite inconsistent. The old lady bit off her own tongue because the reaction to the bite was so severe - there are also signs of her struggling because phone off the hook, table knocked over etc. Yet when the couple watching Wheel of Fortune are BOTH bitten, they appear to have just died nice and quietly, his arm still casually draped over her shoulder, and the big popcorn bowl was unspilt. [This is entirely consistent with medical science. The 'old lady' may have had an epileptic fit as a result of the shock of being bitten. She may have been allergic to spider bites (not only the venom; they use other chemicals like anticoagulants which can trigger severe reactions) and gone into anaphylactic spasm. She was standing when bitten and may have injured herself post mortem as she fell. The couple watching television were relaxed and seated, and would leave no evidence of their struggles as they would fall anywhere or dislodge anything. There are dozens of explanations; they all work.]
In the scene where the main character is fighting the second big spider with a home made flamethrower, you can see that the fire is coming out of the Spraycan itself instead of the fire source. [Because the spray coming out of the can is flammable, of course the flame spreads all the way back to the tip of the can. But it is still the fact that the character is holding the fire source to the can that is causing the fire spray.]
The spider specialist should have known that when he vibrated the web he would be attacked by the giant spider, but still he did it. [The spider specialist wanted to get the giant spider out in the open so he could take a look at it. He expected it to come out and walk along the web so he could study it, not leap out and kill him like it did. The spider attacking him was an accident.]
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