Tarantola

Titolo originale: Tarantula
Regia: Jack Arnold |
Anno: 1955
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Horror
Tag: small town | monster | experiment | giant monster | giant spider | deformation | laboratory | black and white | scientist | desert | heroine | mortuary | isolated house | napalm | hotel lobby | animal horror | acromegaly | southwest desert | experimental nutrient | lab animals | secret experiment | experiment gone awry | military to the rescue | flatbed truck | sheriff's office | deserted road | small town doctor | in-home laboratory | spider venom | skeletal remains |
Cast: John Agar | Mara Corday | Leo G. Carroll | Nestor Paiva | Ross Elliott | Hank Patterson | Eddie Parker | Bert Holland | Raymond Bailey | Steve Darrell | Edwin Rand | Clint Eastwood | Wag Blesing | Dee Carroll |

Tre scienziati, nel tentativo di risolvere il problema della fame nel mondo attraverso la sintetizzazione di un alimento dalle proprietà rivoluzionarie, hanno la pessima trovata di fissarne le componenti tramite un isotopo radioattivo. Il prodotto è piuttosto instabile: le conseguenze mortifere sono dunque garantite.

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When Paul falls to the ground and dies after attacking Prof. Deemer, the index fingers of each hand [...] D
When Paul attacks Prof. Deemer, in one closeup his "teeth" can be seen flexing, revealing them as b [...] D
When Prof. Deemer inspects the animals in his cages, he changes the card (on the clipboard) showing [...] D
Twice in the film, Dr. Hastings lands his plane on an unpaved desert runway, yet the sound effect w [...] D
The position of the syringe changes from shot to shot as Prof. Deemer handles it. Moreover, in one [...] D
Throughout the movie, characters mispronounce the condition acromegaly (it is not pronounced acro-m [...] D
Two officers are ordered to stay behind to hold the tarantula off while the others escape. They are [...] D
Jacob's presumably dead body changes position, especially his feet. D
Early in the film, as Dr. Deemer goes into the lab and puts on his apron, he wears a shirt with sho [...] D
Dr Hastings refers to the sample the sample he is analyzing as having insect type venom. Frequent e [...] D
The shadow from the off-screen hand holding the first rock in the "rockslide" can be seen before an [...] D
Dr. Townsend describes the tarantula as belonging to the genus Arachnida. Arachnida is in fact a bi [...] D
Spiders cannot grow without shedding. In order to get so large Tarantulas would have had to shed he [...] D
Prof. Deemer takes special care to fill the hypodermic needle inside an isolation box wearing rubbe [...] D
Spiders need to "sting" their prey with their chelicera in order to inject their digesting acid. Wh [...] D
When Matt Hastings suggests that Josh was listening in on the phone conversation, Josh asks, "Are y [...] D
The jets that take off to attack the tarantula at the end of the movie are F-84 "Thunderjets"; howe [...] D
Mistake in the German translation: When Prof. Deemer refers to the world population growth, the num [...] D
In one shot of the tarantula crawling over the mountains, the matte is cut incorrectly, so that one [...] D
When the Tarantula escapes its cage, the stick used by the handler, is plain to see as it moves lef [...] D
The movie (and all other "giant monster movies") ignores Galileo's Square-Cube principle. An object [...] D
At the tarantula's final size, humans would no longer be a suitable prey for it since more energy w [...] D

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