Sentences with phrase «film arachnophobia»

Steven Kutcher, spider wrangler on the film Arachnophobia, says a dusting of talcum powder or a spritz of Lemon Pledge makes a tabletop or other flat surface too slippery for the critters to get any traction.

Not exact matches

He showed her films like The Blair Witch Project, Arachnophobia, The Shining and Silence of the Lambs, but none elicited even a hint of fear.

There have been a few good spider films in the past, most notably Eight Legged Freaks and Arachnophobia.

The first - time director, Frank Marshall, has said that he modeled the film on The Birds, and the structure of Arachnophobia does follow the pattern set up by Hitchcock.

A Far Off Place features some beautiful African photography, probably in part to first - time director Mikael Solomon, who earlier worked as a cinematographer for such films as The Abyss and Arachnophobia.

Family films and mild horror can coexist (Arachnophobia and Gremlins come to mind), but by stuffing cloying scenes of adorably smart canine activities (the dog plays Scrabble, types with a pencil in its mouth, and barks his answers — one bark for yes, two for no) in the middle of some adult horror (eye gougings, decapitations, and grisly scenes of bloodshed throughout), the two elements seem to work at odds to one another.

The phobias depicted in this book are not necessarily the obvious ones that typically form the basis of horror films, such as arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, or (despite the immense attention given to a certain recent film) herpetophobia, fear of snakes and other reptiles.

Yet the popular cultural fear of the spider reinforced in films such Arachnophobia (1990) sets up a duality inherent in a work structured on contradictions: it is both repellent as a cultural memory and attractive as a glistening material presence.