Why was the spider removed from the original poster?
It's always something that's bugged me as I've never found a definitive answer. Does anyone here know?
shareI've wanted to know the answer myself. What little I remember from the time of it's release, had something to do with Charlotte's Web?? Can someone else help with this?
It was a really bad move because they removed the spider AND the web in the tree, so the poster art basically has no real connection to a movie about killer spiders.
I came here to ask the same question.
shareI remember reading something years ago about either DC/Warner getting pissy about it resembling the Batman poster/Bat Signal.
I'm probably missing something, Bear in mind this was YEARS ago
They said it was the greatest homoerotic novel since huckelberry finn - Mr macky
Some people, are in actuality so scared of spiders that they would freak out seeing the cover of the movie in a store, or on the poster.
I suspect the spider was removed after focus testing or complaints from people seeing it and freaking out.
You can find reports of people who have thrown objects at their television and broken the screen because a video or a commercial used an image of a roach or a spider crawling across the screen.
This is most likely why Raid uses little cartoon bugs for their advertising on television rather than real images of people dealing with bugs.
Yes, you might think it odd that people would watch a story that involved something that would freak them out, but it's the difference between KNOWING you're watching a movie, and subjecting yourself to something you're afraid of, and actually thinking the creature you're scared of is on a DVD or VHS cover that is several inches away from you.
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You can find reports of people who have thrown objects at their television and broken the screen because a video or a commercial used an image of a roach or a spider crawling across the screen.
OMG! I remember a commercial that looked normal and then looked like there was a roach crawling across the screen, I was ready to freak til I saw more roaches then I knew it wasn't real
No offense, but you're an idiot. share