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Tarantula

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Original title

Tarantula

Year

1955

Running time

80 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jack Arnold

Screenwriter

Martin Berkeley, Robert M. Fresco. Story: Jack Arnold, Robert M. Fresco

Cast

Music

Henry Mancini, Herman Stein

Cinematography

George Robinson (B&W)

Producer

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Genre

Sci-Fi. Horror | Spiders. Animals. B Movie

Synopsis

A biological researcher, Professor Gerald Deemer (Carroll), is trying to prevent the food shortages which will result from the world's expanding population. With the help of atomic science, he invents a special nutrient on which animals can live exclusively, but which causes them to grow to gigantic size. When his researchers try the nutrient, they develop runaway acromegaly and one of them is driven mad, half destroys the lab and attacks Deemer and injects him with the solution. As a result, Deemer gradually becomes more and more deformed while a giant tarantula ravages the countryside.

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Rankings Position

#9 Animal Horror Ranking
#56 Best Movies about Animals

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