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Them!
Why this pick
Like Tarantula, it turns atomic-age scientific anxiety into a brisk desert-set monster emergency, balancing procedural investigation, escalating scale, and vivid creature-feature spectacle.
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MOVIE1955 1h 20m USA
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A giant insect menace, military response, and clean widescreen location work make this a close match for Tarantula’s efficient 1950s science-fiction alarm.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Arnold again combines science-fiction experiment fallout with tactile suspense; its famous encounter with an ordinary spider preserves the era’s uncanny mix of domestic realism and primal fear.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
John Agar
Dr. Matt Hastings
Ross Elliott
Joe Burch
Edwin Rand
Lt. John Nolan
Hank Patterson
Josh
Bert Holland
Barney Russell
Steve Darrell
Andy Andersen
Mara Corday
Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
Leo G. Carroll
Prof. Gerald Deemer