Tarantula (1955)
- Directed by
- Jack Arnold
- Genre
- science fiction film, horror film, monster film, science fiction horror film, body horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 309 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A scientist develops a nutrient that makes things grow too fast. When a tarantula escapes and keeps getting bigger, it becomes a huge threat to a small town.
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What happens
Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold. It stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll. The film is about a scientist developing a miracle nutrient to feed a rapidly growing human population. In its unperfected state, the nutrient causes extraordinarily rapid growth, creating a deadly problem when a tarantula test subject escapes and continues to grow larger and larger. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco's teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode "No Food for Thought", also directed by Arnold. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures as a Universal-International release, and reissued in 1962 through Sherman S. Krellberg's Ultra Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Kiss of the Tarantula (1975)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.