“I was physically unable to stop it from crawling along my naked skin…"
Are we not going to talk about why two year old Jeff Daniels was completely paralysed in his crib. It makes no sense. Two year olds can move. Getting them to stop moving is the hard part.
This John Goodman film about killer spiders who can't climb and can slurp up a whole human without doing a turd does not accurately reflect normal child development.
Last night, when I was watching this movie for the first time (it was on at a pool party when I was in high school but I was like, nope, too scary), the egg sac description came on and I was all “just like a vagina” and my husband glared at me and then I read this today and Lindy wrote a similar joke and that’s how I know I’m in the right place.
I read or saw an interview with Jeff Daniels where he said that working with the spiders was like working with Debra Winger and Shirley Maclaine, because they're always waiting for the spider's best take, and that's always the one they use.
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, my dad’s company did a fancy conference where family could come do fun stuff while employees did boring stuff. One night, they had all the kids together to watch a movie so adults could go out. The movie? ARACHNAPHOBIA! The youngest kids were terrified. All of us older kids tried to act super cool and unafraid the whole time. By the end, I was dying laughing at the spider fireball and JD carefully choosing which bottle of fancy wine was worth saving while young children’s screams filled the room. What a time.
The 90s were a golden era for shitty and incongruous credit songs. I hope Jimmy Buffett earned enough from Don’t Bug Me to finally purchase that blow up sex parrot he always dreamed about.
This was amazing! Thank you for making me laugh so much with these summaries. I’ve never seen this movie before, but I am NOT going to make the same mistake of watching a movie I purposely missed the first time because your review was so damn good. I did that with Face Off and Jesus Christ that movie was terrible. I couldn’t even finish it. Your review was so much better than the actual movie. But I did listen to that Jimmy Buffet song and look at those YouTube comments - people LOVE it! 😉
I’m finally catching up on all the Butt News after listening to the Shit, Actually audiobook for the third time. So glad you did this movie! I love this movie! I saw this for the first time when I was 8 (yikes!) and went from having normal, casual relationship with spiders to being 1000% terrified to even stick my bare foot behind the couch pillows lest there be a giant tarantula lurking behind there to eat my toes. I’m still pretty terrified of any spider larger than a dime. Despite that, I have seen this movie probably 25 times and rewatch every few years to remind myself that spiders are indeed as scary as my 8 yo traumatized brain remembers them to be. So why did I choose Australia as the country I would go on exchange to in high school, even though it’s widely known that Australia is home to every large evil poisonous spider know to man? Fun fact, the live spiders they used in this movie are Huntsman spiders and the farm I lived on in Australia was positively infested with them and I lived in abject terror for an entire year. I had one leap over my head in the car after I pulled down the sun visor only to land on the headrest behind me and rear its legs up at the passengers in the back seat. One fell out onto the floor and skittered over my foot when I pulled a book off a shelf. We had to keep our shoes upside down on a shoe rack so spiders wouldn’t crawl into them. Which didn’t make sense to me, because can’t spiders crawl up things? Anyway, don’t go to Australia if you are scared of spiders. There is no healing from spider related movie trauma to be had there.
I treated myself to watching Arachnophobia for the first time in my life while simultaneously reading this edition of Butt News and I can honestly say: best Friday night ever.
I love watching the movie and then reading Butt News right after so everything is fresh in my mind. It was kinda funny, but I watched this movie and had forgotten that Julian Sands was in it. Then I watched Vibes (1988) with Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper...and there was Julian Sands again. Thanks so much for Butt News 😘
I know I saw this movie several times, but I remember absolutely nothing about it except that horrifying shower scene. And if I think about it for too long, I may never shower again.
I love all of the recaps so much. such a fan of Lindy. I just subscribed to support Lindy and then read the comments and realized I should also. Watch. The. Movies. This did not occur to me before what is wrong w me. Anyway super happy to be here and look forward to all the emails! Will be watching from now on.
My favourite part is definitely that the spiders and the humans boinked at the same time
“I was physically unable to stop it from crawling along my naked skin…"
Are we not going to talk about why two year old Jeff Daniels was completely paralysed in his crib. It makes no sense. Two year olds can move. Getting them to stop moving is the hard part.
This John Goodman film about killer spiders who can't climb and can slurp up a whole human without doing a turd does not accurately reflect normal child development.
Have you considered changing the name of this blog to Butt Allergies?
Last night, when I was watching this movie for the first time (it was on at a pool party when I was in high school but I was like, nope, too scary), the egg sac description came on and I was all “just like a vagina” and my husband glared at me and then I read this today and Lindy wrote a similar joke and that’s how I know I’m in the right place.
Also, I was right in 1990/1991. Too scary.
I read or saw an interview with Jeff Daniels where he said that working with the spiders was like working with Debra Winger and Shirley Maclaine, because they're always waiting for the spider's best take, and that's always the one they use.
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, my dad’s company did a fancy conference where family could come do fun stuff while employees did boring stuff. One night, they had all the kids together to watch a movie so adults could go out. The movie? ARACHNAPHOBIA! The youngest kids were terrified. All of us older kids tried to act super cool and unafraid the whole time. By the end, I was dying laughing at the spider fireball and JD carefully choosing which bottle of fancy wine was worth saving while young children’s screams filled the room. What a time.
The 90s were a golden era for shitty and incongruous credit songs. I hope Jimmy Buffett earned enough from Don’t Bug Me to finally purchase that blow up sex parrot he always dreamed about.
When JD screamed “THERAPY” at the torched corpse of lady spider, I felt that. Anything JD is a gem, and this was so fun to rewatch. Thank you!!
This was amazing! Thank you for making me laugh so much with these summaries. I’ve never seen this movie before, but I am NOT going to make the same mistake of watching a movie I purposely missed the first time because your review was so damn good. I did that with Face Off and Jesus Christ that movie was terrible. I couldn’t even finish it. Your review was so much better than the actual movie. But I did listen to that Jimmy Buffet song and look at those YouTube comments - people LOVE it! 😉
I’m finally catching up on all the Butt News after listening to the Shit, Actually audiobook for the third time. So glad you did this movie! I love this movie! I saw this for the first time when I was 8 (yikes!) and went from having normal, casual relationship with spiders to being 1000% terrified to even stick my bare foot behind the couch pillows lest there be a giant tarantula lurking behind there to eat my toes. I’m still pretty terrified of any spider larger than a dime. Despite that, I have seen this movie probably 25 times and rewatch every few years to remind myself that spiders are indeed as scary as my 8 yo traumatized brain remembers them to be. So why did I choose Australia as the country I would go on exchange to in high school, even though it’s widely known that Australia is home to every large evil poisonous spider know to man? Fun fact, the live spiders they used in this movie are Huntsman spiders and the farm I lived on in Australia was positively infested with them and I lived in abject terror for an entire year. I had one leap over my head in the car after I pulled down the sun visor only to land on the headrest behind me and rear its legs up at the passengers in the back seat. One fell out onto the floor and skittered over my foot when I pulled a book off a shelf. We had to keep our shoes upside down on a shoe rack so spiders wouldn’t crawl into them. Which didn’t make sense to me, because can’t spiders crawl up things? Anyway, don’t go to Australia if you are scared of spiders. There is no healing from spider related movie trauma to be had there.
I am so happy to read this review instead of ever having to watch this movie. Thank you for your service.
I treated myself to watching Arachnophobia for the first time in my life while simultaneously reading this edition of Butt News and I can honestly say: best Friday night ever.
I love watching the movie and then reading Butt News right after so everything is fresh in my mind. It was kinda funny, but I watched this movie and had forgotten that Julian Sands was in it. Then I watched Vibes (1988) with Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper...and there was Julian Sands again. Thanks so much for Butt News 😘
I know I saw this movie several times, but I remember absolutely nothing about it except that horrifying shower scene. And if I think about it for too long, I may never shower again.
I saw this movie and blocked so much of it, except for the guy plucking the spider string! I can picture it so clearly. (Shudder)
I love all of the recaps so much. such a fan of Lindy. I just subscribed to support Lindy and then read the comments and realized I should also. Watch. The. Movies. This did not occur to me before what is wrong w me. Anyway super happy to be here and look forward to all the emails! Will be watching from now on.