The 1990s saw the return of The Creature Feature,

films that harked back to the heyday of 50s monster movies or 70s Animal Attack films,

often shot on medium or large budgets with big ensemble casts.

In 1990, Stephen Spielberg's production company Amblin produced a Spider Attack movie inspired

by 1977's Kingdom of the Spiders.

With an ensemble cast that included Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands and John Goodman, it became known

as one of the scariest and most entertaining

Spider Attack movies ever made.

Meanwhile, that same year, director Ron Underwood was making his own slightly more modest

monster movie, inspired by the giant monster attack films of the 1950s, starring Kevin Bacon about a small town in Nevada

being attacked by giant prehistoric worm-like monsters.

While arachnophobia was a box office smash, Tremors was initially a commercial flop, but over time became a cult

favorite, one that ended up spawning a franchise of six sequels.

Can you fly, you sucker?

Can you fly?

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror, and we discuss two

1990 creature features, arachnophobia and tremors.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter, as ever, I am your host. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature in horror. We're discussing a whole bunch of fun animal

attack movies and creature features, and this is part 22. In this week's episode, as that

intro suggested, we've got two absolute bangers from 1990, arachnophobia and tremors. Both of

these discussions will be spoilerific. Give them both a watch. They are

so much fun before you listen to our discussion. So joining me later on in this episode will be

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