It’s time for another episode of the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and with this one we’re paying tribute to the late, great Julian Sands with a look back at the 1990 “nature run amok” film Arachnophobia (buy it or watch it HERE). To hear all about it, check out the video embedded above!
Directed by Frank Marshall from a script crafted by Don Jakoby, Wesley Strick, and Al Williams, Arachnophobia has the following synopsis: After a nature photographer dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings has just moved in with his wife, Molly, and young son. As town residents start turning up dead, Jennings begins to suspect spiders and must face his fears as he and no-nonsense exterminator Delbert McClintock fight to stop a deadly infestation.
Sands is joined in the cast by Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, and John Goodman.
This is what the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie series is all about: Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?
The Arachnophobia episode of WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Tyler Nichols, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
A couple of the previous episodes of the show can be seen below. To see more, head over to our JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!
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