Lawrence Person's Futuramen

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.

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: