12/33
Before the bite, he was not wearing any shoes
Synopsis
The residents of a run-down French tenement building battle an army of deadly, rapidly multiplying spiders. The spectacular buildings in which the action takes place were not built for the film; these are the Picasso Arenas in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, designed in the 80s by architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky. When TN feels the effects of the spider bite, he is wearing one of the new shoes.
He would not have worn the right shoes after an attack/poisoning
Keroué Keroué. The very first Arachnophobia film scared me as a kid, I haven’t seen one in a while and most bug/shark/gator films don’t scare me these days. But this film managed to capture a really unique image of trying to catch a giant spider with a glass jar.
It was really scary because some of us have had to do that in real life
That and the creepy crawlies that rush in really fast and use the broom as a ladder. This is one of those movies that doesn’t rely on cheap jump scares, but on our own natural fear. The only negative I found about the piece was that the spiders grew up too quickly and there was no section on the passage of time.
They have the same behaviors and were mostly introduced once
And some of the characters kind of look like I don’t know who is who. But that was made up for by good acting that carried the drama. That scream moved as it came to an end, filling the room with horror…
then the lights went out
Overall, it could have been better, but it’s pretty solid. It’s well written and doesn’t use cheap gimmicks as a crutch. The spiders are realistic (except for a couple of big ones) and kind of felt like some characters.