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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.