Your Creepy Halloween Spider Post

I’m running out of Halloween season, so it’s time for a post on that perennial source of creepiness: Spiders.

There are few things that triggers our primal fear reflex more than spiders, so here’s a Whitman’s Spider Sampler of Creepiness.

  • Here’s a family whose house was infested with deadly brown recluses.
  • If you’re afraid of spiders, you almost certainly don’t want to work at a tarantula farm.
  • An encounter with the South American Goliath birdeater spider whose feet can stretch a foot in diameter.

    • I’ve tried to avoid the common gifs everyone’s already seen, but I am intrigued by this completely unconvincing, yet oddly unnerving film snippet, and I’d like to know what (presumably silent) film it’s from:

    Here’s the exceptionally creepy spider attack from The Mist:

    And here’s Cyriak’s deeply disturbing “Cobwebs”:

    Let’s end on a lighter note. There’s a Simon’s Cat with a spider:

    And this:

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    One Response to “Your Creepy Halloween Spider Post”

    1. Andrew Kidd says:
      January 8, 2015 at 10:47 PM

      Very late for a response here, but the first GIF is from the John Barrymore version of DR. JEKYLL AND MR.HYDE; it’s part of a dream sequence. I was lucky enough to see a pristine print at (the now gone, alas) Oak Street Cinema in Minneapolis, with an original piano score.

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