The critically acclaimed 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia: where to watch and what to know
Arachnophobia is crawling back into the horror-comedy chat decades later—so if those eight-legged chills are calling, here’s where to watch it.
If you’ve been meaning to revisit the spider invasion that made you check your shoes for weeks, Arachnophobia is easy to find again. The 1990 horror- comedy is streaming in the U.S. on Prime Video and Fandango at Home, bringing its mix of small-town charm and eight-legged chaos back to living rooms.
Directed by Frank Marshall and written by Don Jakoby, Al Williams, and Wesley Strick, the film hit theaters in 1990 and found a long life as a crowd-pleasing gateway into creature features.
It grossed $53,208,180 in theaters.
The story
A rare spider species hitches a ride from the South American jungle to a quiet California town, mates, and unleashes a lethal brood. As bodies start to pile up, it falls to Dr. Ross Jennings and a few unlikely allies to track the source and stop the killings before the nest fully takes hold.
Who’s in it
- Jeff Daniels
- Harley Jane Kozak
- Julian Sands
- John Goodman
Where to watch
- Prime Video (U.S.)
- Fandango at Home (U.S.)
Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes.