In Episode 23, Jen and Nilo swap stories of unfortunate arachnid encounters before discussing the invading spider armies of Arachnophobia (1990) and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) and the far more disturbing spider sex of Latvian art-horror curiosity Spider (1992).

SOURCES:

BJ Colangelo, “Kingdom of the Spiders (1977),” When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals

Gordon Grice, The Red Hourglass

Gordon Grice, The Book of Deadly Animals

Niklas Salmose, “We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres,” Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism

https://www.grunge.com/161796/creepy-real-life-stories-about-giant-spiders/?utm_campaign=clip 

https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/sinkhole-opens-in-nyc-sidewalk-plunging-man-into-rat-pit.html 

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/potentially-deadly-spiders-found-in-supermarket-banana-bunch/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hairy-spider-attacks-spark-panic-in-india/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/15/experience-i-was-nearly-killed-by-a-spider-bite