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Your favorite giant bug/insect movie...

posted 12 years ago by rixrex
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What on emovie is your favorite giant bug or insect movie of all time. DOesn't have to be good, just your favorite that you can watch over and over.

I'll call mine Tarantula, because of the great soundtrack whenever the spider appears, plus these two great scenes:

1. Giant spider suddenly appears as big as a building atop a hillcrest backlit by the setting sun, standing perfectly still and peering down upon a corral of panicked horses.

2. Rampaging spider walks right through a blast of dynamite and cloud of dust to send the townspeople fleeing down the highway, and of course one car won't start.

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[–] Iridescent_Phantom 12 years ago

Tarantula will always be my favorite big bug on the loose movie.

It was the first big bug movie I ever saw in a theatre. I missed Them by a single year, although I remember seeing an ad for it at the time.

The scene where the spider pauses at the top of the hill before descending upon the horses, and again before it chases the two prospectors, are two of the creepy highlights of the film.

The subplot of the doomed scientist played by Leo G. Carroll adds another dimension to what might have been a standard big bug movie. I nearly bolted from the theatre when he hopped out of bed and turned his face to the audience.

The movie is one of the best and most successful uses of an actual spider enlarged to gigantic porportions, even if some of it's legs have a tendency to become transparent against the hills as it chases everyone down the road.

It's one of the genuine science fiction classics of the fifties.

And a special mention of my all time favorite science fiction picture that also features a "giant" spider: The Incredible Shrinking Man.

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