Tarantula. 1955.
A spider escapes from a laboratory during a fire which has been injected with a serum that makes it grow in size.
Another classic 50s B movie that showed you didn't need to have big special effects but a creative mind on how to show things in a bigger way and influenced the makers to do the same for The Incredible Shrinking man.
Leo G. Carroll plays the scientist who has co developed the serum that can help world hunger and trying it on a varied set of animals and insects except his colleagues have tried the serum on themselves that didn't go exactly to plan. John Agar plays the young doctor who goes out to prove that one doctor died from a rare disease and slowly uncovers the truth. Mara Corday plays the new lab assistant who sees the change in her new teacher.
With next to the film Them, this film can certainly put you off insects and arachnids, this film is well acted and and the spider itself is not robotic just filmed at a normal size and projected up and nicely created for the up close shots of the face.
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