Easter egg: To find out interesting facts about spiders on the DVD, do this. Wait on a menu for a bit, until the spiders stop moving, then move the cursor up and onto the spider and press select. This will bring up facts about the spider.
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
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Directed by: Ellory Elkayem
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, David Arquette, Doug E. Doug, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Rick Overton
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the townspeople are fleeing to the mall there is a shot of the Deputy driving the car. You can see the top left hand corner of the windshield is covered in green goo, but when you see them parking the windscreen is completely clean. (01:03:35)
Chris McCormick: Harlan, get up here.
Harlan: I'm afraid of heights.
Chris McCormick: Heights? Are you afraid of spiders?
Trivia: The film originally featured the working title "Arac Attack." ("Arac" being a shortened version of "Arachnid", a class of animals that spiders belong to) However, following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and rising tensions in the Middle East, the original title was dropped in many countries because producers felt "Arac" sounded too similar to "Iraq", and they didn't want to have any social or political implications in the title. (However, the film was released with the original title in some territories).
Question: Do the spiders grow big because of the food that they are fed, or because of the chemicals spilled in the water?
Answer: Both! The owner of the spider farm was feeding the spiders bugs from the water that had the chemical spill in it. The bugs were contaminated with the chemical, thus contaminating the spiders. Note: The man who owned the spider farm had no idea about the contaminated water.
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