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Tarantula!

128 statements
24 feature instances
14 referencing feature instances

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Tarantula!	comment	The quintessential Giant Spider movie and one of the better giant monster B-Movies from the 1950s.Near a small Arizonan town, Professor Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), suspecting burgeoning global food shortage problems due to an increasing world population, has been attempting to develop a serum which people can feed off exclusively. Alas, when trying it on rats, rabbits and a tarantula, all it does is cause them to grow to enormous proportions, and when humans take it, it causes them to develop acromegaly, go mad, and die. Deemer's two lab assistants take the serum when he is gone one day, causing one to die, and the other to go mad and attack Deemer, injecting him with the serum himself. During their fight, the cage of the tarantula, which is already about the size of a large dog, is shattered, and it escapes into the desert. Shortly afterwards, local doctor Matt Hastings (John Agar) brings in Deemer's new assistant Stephanie "Steve" Clayton (B-Movie scream queen Mara Corday). As Deemer's condition deteriorates due to the serum, Hastings romances Clayton. But then the livestock of local farmers start turning up dead. The escaped tarantula, sure enough, has grown to even bigger proportions; now those of a large building. It is now up to Deemer, Hastings, Clayton and the local sheriff to stop it.Among other things, the film is notable for the appearance of a 25-year-old Clint Eastwood in an uncredited role as a fighter pilot at the end of the film.
Tarantula!	fetched	2023-04-07T22:58:45Z
Tarantula!	parsed	2023-04-07T22:58:45Z
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Tarantula! / int_16d14f03	type	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
Tarantula! / int_16d14f03	comment	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Deemer's at-home laboratory has an impressive array of big retorts and curly glass tubes.
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Tarantula! / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Tarantula! / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Deemer's animal-growth formula works exactly as intended. If it's deadly to humans, well, it was never intended for use on humans. And the tarantula would surely have been killed and dissected long before it became a kaiju if one of Deemer's colleagues, maddened by misuse of the formula, hadn't released it.
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Tarantula! / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Tarantula! / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Steve is apparently unable to see the giant tarantula filling her entire window whilst wandering around her bedroom. That could be justified in that it was in the middle of the night, and she was getting ready for bed. She was too tired to be looking for a giant spider.
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Tarantula! / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Tarantula! / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Deemer. He's Affably Evil enough, but making a serum to make animals grow to huge sizes is definitely Mad Science.
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Tarantula! / int_442e3d95	type	Professor Guinea Pig
Tarantula! / int_442e3d95	comment	Professor Guinea Pig: Revealed to be the fate of Deemer's fellow researchers, who tested the growth nutrient on themselves despite failed animal testings.
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Tarantula! / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Tarantula! / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Steve, but only in the scenes where the tarantula attacks the house.
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Tarantula! / int_4e4e98fa	type	Touch of the Monster
Tarantula! / int_4e4e98fa	comment	Touch of the Monster: Of the Rape of the Sabine Women variety, see above.
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Tarantula! / int_67b4153c	type	Weird Science
Tarantula! / int_67b4153c	comment	Weird Science
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Tarantula! / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
Tarantula! / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Two policemen attempt to flee the tarantula in a car that was working fine not two minutes before. Naturally, it won't start.
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Tarantula! / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
Tarantula! / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: Deemer's lab has couple of blown up rats, rabbits and guinea pigs.
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Tarantula! / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Tarantula! / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: There is no scene of the tarantula holding a woman in its jaws in the film. Also, a famous publicity still shows what looks to be Deemer menacing Steve. The scene does take place, but Deemer is actually gravely ill when it happens and needs Steve's help, neither intending to menace her nor capable of it.
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Tarantula! / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Tarantula! / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
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Tarantula! / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Tarantula! / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: We don't really see the spider in its fully-grown, people-eating, building-destroying glory until about 47 minutes into the film. Until then, there's just a few shots of it escaping the lab and wandering around in the desert.
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Tarantula! / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
Tarantula! / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License – Animal Care: Giant animals would need to be fed before they could be eaten, making their value as a solution to world hunger dubious at best.
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Tarantula! / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Tarantula! / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Okay, so the Mad Scientist has a plan to end world hunger by creating giant animals. So he tests his new serum on rabbits, guinea pigs, and a freaking tarantula. The latter goes as well as you expect.
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Tarantula! / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Tarantula! / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: Deliberately invoked: "Acromegalia" (actual name Acromegaly) takes years, not days, to reach the point where complications can become life-threatening. Hastings points this out as the first sign that something is wrong.
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Tarantula! / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Tarantula! / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death / Hoist by His Own Petard: Deemer ends up killed by the same tarantula he created.
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Tarantula! / int_95864e13	type	B-Movie
Tarantula! / int_95864e13	comment	B-Movie
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Tarantula! / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Tarantula! / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: Ummmm, duh.
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Tarantula! / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Tarantula! / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The giant tarantula finally bites it when the Air Force drops a ton of napalm on it.
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Tarantula! / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Tarantula! / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: "Steve" Clayton. Short for Stephanie.
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Tarantula! / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
Tarantula! / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: The tarantula.
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Tarantula! / int_c92bd7ed	type	Spiders Are Scary
Tarantula! / int_c92bd7ed	comment	Spiders Are Scary: Especially the 100 foot high ones. But this one was scary enough when only the size of the aforementioned large dog.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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Tarantula!	hasFeature	Sinister Southwest / int_2702cb0e
Tarantula!	hasFeature	Spiders Are Scary / int_2702cb0e
SuperiorStergeon	seeAlso	Tarantula!
Tarantula!	hasFeature	Touch of the Monster / int_2702cb0e
Tarantula!	hasFeature	Weak to Fire / int_2702cb0e

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