I've always wondered if director Jack Arnold could have raised higher should he have been able to work with big budget products and top stars casts. Arnold was a very smart filmmaker with a most direct and plain style that gave us such "B" classic films in different genres as "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" in the horror/sci-fi line, "No name on the Bullet" (Audie Murphy's best western no doubt) and even the fine comedy "The Mouse That Roared" (Peter Sellers was not a top star then). Who knows?
"Tarantula" is just another of Arnold's little "B" horror gems of the 50's, a most simple movie about insects turning huge to terrorize people, in this case the spider in the title. The film is interesting and enjoyable for fans of the genre (guilty!) and I remember it really scared me a lot when I saw it as a kid.
Though they would have never run for an Oscar John Agar, Mara Corday and Leo G. Carroll where very good in the main roles in a kind of film that was not about acting but about special effects and horrifying situations (just think for a second what it would be like to be chased by a hungry building size tarantula spider!).
All in all, "Tarantula" stands as a good piece in the "B" horror genre released by an intelligent director.
"Tarantula" is just another of Arnold's little "B" horror gems of the 50's, a most simple movie about insects turning huge to terrorize people, in this case the spider in the title. The film is interesting and enjoyable for fans of the genre (guilty!) and I remember it really scared me a lot when I saw it as a kid.
Though they would have never run for an Oscar John Agar, Mara Corday and Leo G. Carroll where very good in the main roles in a kind of film that was not about acting but about special effects and horrifying situations (just think for a second what it would be like to be chased by a hungry building size tarantula spider!).
All in all, "Tarantula" stands as a good piece in the "B" horror genre released by an intelligent director.