John Agar, Leo G Carroll, Mara Corday, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
A spider being used for lab experiment gets loose and escapes out into the desert where, over a short period of time, grows to enormous proporions and starts to wield a path of destruction.
Stats: 108 reviews
Tarantula is 50's sci-fi gold, complete with a giant guinea pig and a mysterious microphone that appears from time to time in the upper frame of certain scenes. Unless you suffer from severe arachnophobia, this is not a film that will cause you any sleepless nights. It is,...( read more)
A classic 50's B-movie. I've often wondered how good it would have been had the Guinea-pig had escaped though! Tarantula vs. Guinea-pig should have been the sequel!
Hahahahahaha, Growing things to be bigger? what could be more safe than a tarantula? It was probly great for it's time. So I should be more kind to it.
An unstoppably awesome B-Movie. Giant monsters are always a lot of fun, especially when you get cheesy lines to laugh at "Jumping Jupiter" and even hokier acting. It also has those classic moments that have you questioning the actions of characters, but in an endearing way. Taran...( read more)
This is the way Sci-Fi / Horror was meant to be. This is what I grew up on, Chiller Theater on WPIX on Saturday Nights, staying up till 1:30 in the morning, then being woke up by Mom and Dragged into church, ahh those were the days. Of course we have our Mad Scientist, Our Prett...( read more)
A fun science fiction/monster movie from the '50s. Not as bad as we've come to expect from such movies; okay script and generally passable acting. It manages to be fairly atmospheric. The live-action tarantula usually looks pretty good. (Not to be confused with Earth vs. the Spid...( read more)
Great Film!
The scene in which the spider the size of a ferry attacks a house with the pretty girl and the mad professor with elephant desease is nothing else than a true epic classic scene of movie history
Cheesy, seems longer than its 80 min runtime, but the stunning Mara Corday kept me interested. Man, whatta dame!
A great corny horror movie. The effects are surprisingly good and the story is original to this day. This is one I could watch many times.
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