TARANTULA

TARANTULA
   Film (1955). Universal. Dir Jack ARNOLD, starring John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll. Screenplay Martin Berkeley, Robert M. Fresco, based on an episode of SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE called No Food for Thought by Fresco. 80 mins. B/w.
   This better-than-average MONSTER MOVIE belongs to the Ludditetechnology-out-of-control genre. Three idealistic biochemists experiment with nutrients that cause gigantism in animals (which would help feed the world) but (unexpectedly) acromegaly in humans, a horrible deformity that destroys two scientists and then, rather later, the third (an affecting performance by Carroll). A tarantula injected with the nutrient escapes into the desert and grows to a vast size. It preys on cattle and people before being incinerated by the USAF using napalm. Arnold makes strong use of the desert setting, creating a kind of watchful stillness, where the giant spider seems natural rather than alien.
   PN/JB
   See also: MUTANTS.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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