Posts Tagged ‘Spiders’

Your Creepy Halloween Spider Post

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

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:

    I Would Totally Buy This Halloween Prop…

    Thursday, October 31st, 2013

    …if it weren’t $5,100.

    Also, this is nicely creepy:

    Oversized Arachnid Cinema

    Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

    Looks like I’ve been falling down on my Giant Spider reporting duties. A retro black-and-white giant spider film has been released called, oddly enough, The Giant Spider.

    There’s an IMDB listing for it as well.

    Big Ass Spider

    Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

    Here’s a trailer for the forthcoming film Big Ass Spider:

    It’s every bit as good as you would expect a trailer for a film called Big Ass Spider to be.

    I’m pretty sure the intro at the beginning of the clip was timed just right to make the bikini volleyball scene show up as the default YouTube image…

    Giant Mechnical Spider

    Sunday, June 6th, 2010

    I like to think of Futuramen as a “go to” blog for giant spider news. I mean, after all, if I’m not going to do it, who will?

    So when two guys actually build a functioning mechanical spider to ride in for $15,000, you know I’m going to be all over that.

    And here’s a video of it running around Burning Man at night:

    Lots more video here.

    (Hat tip: Fark.)

    World War II: Now With Giant Mechanical Spider

    Monday, January 25th, 2010

    Embrace the anachronism arachnoid mechanism.

    Postscript: And as long as we’re linking to films about big-ass mechanical things attacking people, check this out.