Creature Feature Mayhem: Attack of the Spiders

This week on Mostly Film, we’re tackling the spider movie — and asking a simple question:

What’s scarier… giant mutant spiders, or the normal-sized ones living in your house right now?

We’re pairing Arachnophobia (1990) with Eight Legged Freaks (2002) and breaking down classic restraint vs. early-2000s CGI chaos. One goes for quiet, domestic dread — shoes, bathtubs, coffee mugs. The other? Big, loud, B-movie swarm insanity.

We talk:

• Exaggeration vs. realism

• Visibility vs. suggestion

• Camp vs. tension

• Why spiders hit differently than sharks or lions

• And which approach actually lingers longer

Plus: worst ways to die, terrible survival decisions, and whether we’d last 24 hours.

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Small creatures. Big anxiety. Let’s ruin your house forever.