Tarantula

• 1955/12/14
• 1h 20 min
• Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

• Tags: acromegaly, animal horror, black and white, deformation, desert, desert highway, desert southwest, experiment, experiment gone awry, experimental nutrient, flatbed truck, giant monster, giant spider, graduate student heroine, hotel lobby, in-home laboratory, isolated house, lab animals, laboratory, military to the rescue, monster, mortuary, napalm, scientist, secret experiment, sheriff's office, skeletal remains, small town, small town doctor, spider venom

• Ratings: 12 T PG

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

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