October 18, 2025 • 8 mins
We had our resident Gen Z'er Alexis watch one of the scariest films from the 90's... Arachnophobia! It gives us chills just thinking about it... But is it really as terrifying as we remember?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we got a podcast exclusive for you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And we've done this a couple of times and we
haven't made like an intro for it yet.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Oh but lucky for us, we have the one and
only talented Jose.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yay, who's gonna give us a gen Z versus Classic
movie intro?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hit it? Jose.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
In a world where a generation pits themselves against another generation,
I present to you gen Z versus Classic Movies.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
All right, if you ever heard one of these, this
is the segment where we have Alexis go watch some
of our favorite movies from the nineties and you know,
give her gen Z thoughts on them.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, and this week we did the one the only.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hollywood Pictures and Amblen Entertainment present.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
A Red Nofolia, Eight Legs, Two Things, and an Attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Spider.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I pulled up the nineteen ninety trailer and I'm like,
is that really their tagline for this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Could have been darker?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, well, what I don't remember. Maybe you don't either,
jose Is. I was this came out the summer I
turned ten years old.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Watch it until I was like probably ten or twelve myself.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And it started Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, and it
was a comedy horror.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I didn't remember.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, so both of those guys are funny.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So Alexis watched it just two nights ago, and I
want you to set the scene for us, Alexis, where
were you who you're watching?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
When we have the house with myomate who does love
horror movies. So she was excited and she remembers this
making her scared of spiders. Being little, she's actually seen it.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Okay, yeah, I remember one scene made me really.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Scared, and I have it.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
But I look up and you know it has a
ninety three percent and rotten tomatoes. So I saw that,
so I was going and high expectations. I was like,
this is gonna be solid.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now you know, Jeff Daniels, because we made you
watch Dumb and Dumber, different role in this one. Yeah,
he's a doctor in this one. Okay, So you both
were excited. I was pretty excited. Okay, I got scary movies. Okay.
And how far into the movie were you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What? Yeah, so like five minutes when the first death
scene happened and you saw the terrible acting skills and
then this is the scene my roommates as Garter and
she watched and she goes, Oh, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Because we were kids.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, So for anyone who hasn't seen a rack in Aphobia,
give us just the plot in one sentence.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, okay, one sentence. A nature photographer goes to like
Venezuela's taking picts of spiders. One crawls back, comes back
with them home, and then God.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And it's like it's over.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
The spiders are going to kill the whole town. You're
killing the whole town. And then everybody has a fear
of them. And then the doctor, who also has fear,
is in charge of helping every helping everybody. Yeah, and no,
not one person in the city doesn't have a fear,
just saying, and that's Jeff Daniels.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So it's interesting that you say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That the actually was so bad because I remember, I mean,
like I have vivid memories of watching this movie and
feeling like this is.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The most real movie. Yeah I've ever seen. I mean,
how were the effects for you?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Well, it starts with what looks like Halloween to cork cobwebs.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Before it and.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
What happened at home to be festive.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, I have to say.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
That the spiders they were too little for me, Like,
I think they needed to be bigger spiders really liked, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Some bigger spiders.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I actually think it could have used more spiders.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I look this up and they actually used real spiders
to film this, and they used three hundred spiders.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Not one was killed with the entire film.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They were like the Avon Dyle or something spiders they're
from like New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And they looked big and scary, but they can't harm
humans at all. So they were using real spiders.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
That's Aland I just feel like they could have done biggers.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, but you know that the reason why we picked
Arachnophobia is because there is rumors that the new one
there's going to be a remake.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Of this movie.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
There's no word yet on who's going to be in
it or anything, but they're looking to do like kind
of the same aesthetics.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And I was just saying that earlier, where like nowadays
the c G I, oh my god, they could get big,
real looking spiders easily, but they got.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To keep the comedy part of it right, Yes, they do.
That was the whole thing with Jeff Daniel.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Oh my god, I hope it has Kevin Harden.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, what was the scene that made you laugh?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Since it was a comedy, And then I figured out,
you know, there's always that one character.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That's like the like communic relief. I think it was
the Exterminator and John Goodman.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, yeah, I have a clip of it, like the
quirky audio they play every time he comes in a scene. Yeah,
that's right, I'm bad music every time he comes on.
And that was kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They were saying that they wanted to make it funny too,
so that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
After you got scared, you'd relax again so that they
could scare you again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's why. So what was the scariest part of the
movie for you? Okay, anything make you jump? No, to
be fair that okay, let me backtrack.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I do not have a fear of spiders, Okay, so
watching this, I was like, maybe it'll give me a fear.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I literally saw every scene. I'm like, where are we.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
A book killed at one so I don't know why
we're freaking out. We can't kill the rest of the
girl in the shower. I'm like, girl, just push it down.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The drain.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The shower scene scarred me I literally as a child,
and still sometimes I look up in all the corners
of my shower to make sure there's no spiders.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This is the beginning of the shower scene. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
There are other people in this house, young lady.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Dad go away, Oh my god, away, use the one
down here, Henry, and they walking around with the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's interesting, jose would I went back and watch. I
remembered thousands of spiders falling off. Oh no, it just
was slowly.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
They are acting like they can't take on these spiders
like people.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You are literally what drupled their size, and like I
don't have a fear of spiders, but do.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I was thinking, I'm so scared of like hamsters, Like
if they had hamsters in this, like hundreds of hamsters
in a barn.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now that camster, you're so cute.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
That's where they get you though.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's like I would cry, They're gonna nibble you to exactly.
They trick you.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Into grabbing them spiders you avoid, you know, hamsters, and
you're gonna step on a hamster and come on, and they.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Have like well like giant hamster.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, just higher tubes everywhere, bark, the scary water bottles
they drink.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Out of someone's where did the lattice go?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh my god, the hamsters eating it?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That is my hor movie.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Watch people, Okay, you're not scared of spiders now that
you've watched no, I thought maybe it would like.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Induce the fear. I gave it a chance. They really did,
And then I was like, oh, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now that you've watched the original, and it sounds like
you would recommend wouldn't recommendybe.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If you're bored?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, agreed?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Maybe no, no, no, I take if you're going to
watch the new one, if the new one comes out,
you should watch this one to compare it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And are you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Excited about the remake that they're supposed to the spider?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I think if they make it scarier, like it could
be a good horror movie, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Like if they turned it to a horror also.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Leave, Like I watched these and I just they really
boost my confidence, Like I realized how cool I am
for not being scared of spider. Okay, so watching as
I walk out the room, and I'm like, I am
so bad ass.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I'm going to watch the new one for that
to see if it gets me or not. But there
it was.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, gen Z Versus classic movie. I loved it, Alexis.
Thanks for watching that film.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If anybody has any film.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Suggestions of what they think Alexa should watch next and
give us a gen Z review, you can hit us
up on social media. Approak and Jeffrey and Hey, thanks
for being here on the podcast. Please subscribe and we'll
be back next week with Today versus Back in the Day.
All right, we got a podcast exclusive for you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And we've done this a couple of times and we
haven't made like an intro for it yet.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Oh but lucky for us, we have the one and
only talented Jose.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yay, who's gonna give us a gen Z versus Classic
movie intro?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hit it? Jose.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
In a world where a generation pits themselves against another generation,
I present to you gen Z versus Classic Movies.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
All right, if you ever heard one of these, this
is the segment where we have Alexis go watch some
of our favorite movies from the nineties and you know,
give her gen Z thoughts on them.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, and this week we did the one the only.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hollywood Pictures and Amblen Entertainment present.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
A Red Nofolia, Eight Legs, Two Things, and an Attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Spider.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I pulled up the nineteen ninety trailer and I'm like,
is that really their tagline for this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Could have been darker?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, well, what I don't remember. Maybe you don't either,
jose Is. I was this came out the summer I
turned ten years old.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Watch it until I was like probably ten or twelve myself.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And it started Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, and it
was a comedy horror.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I didn't remember.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, so both of those guys are funny.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So Alexis watched it just two nights ago, and I
want you to set the scene for us, Alexis, where
were you who you're watching?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
When we have the house with myomate who does love
horror movies. So she was excited and she remembers this
making her scared of spiders. Being little, she's actually seen it.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Okay, yeah, I remember one scene made me really.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Scared, and I have it.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
But I look up and you know it has a
ninety three percent and rotten tomatoes. So I saw that,
so I was going and high expectations. I was like,
this is gonna be solid.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now you know, Jeff Daniels, because we made you
watch Dumb and Dumber, different role in this one. Yeah,
he's a doctor in this one. Okay, So you both
were excited. I was pretty excited. Okay, I got scary movies. Okay.
And how far into the movie were you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What? Yeah, so like five minutes when the first death
scene happened and you saw the terrible acting skills and
then this is the scene my roommates as Garter and
she watched and she goes, Oh, that's sad.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Because we were kids.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, So for anyone who hasn't seen a rack in Aphobia,
give us just the plot in one sentence.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, okay, one sentence. A nature photographer goes to like
Venezuela's taking picts of spiders. One crawls back, comes back
with them home, and then God.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And it's like it's over.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
The spiders are going to kill the whole town. You're
killing the whole town. And then everybody has a fear
of them. And then the doctor, who also has fear,
is in charge of helping every helping everybody. Yeah, and no,
not one person in the city doesn't have a fear,
just saying, and that's Jeff Daniels.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So it's interesting that you say.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That the actually was so bad because I remember, I mean,
like I have vivid memories of watching this movie and
feeling like this is.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The most real movie. Yeah I've ever seen. I mean,
how were the effects for you?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Well, it starts with what looks like Halloween to cork cobwebs.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Before it and.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
What happened at home to be festive.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, I have to say.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
That the spiders they were too little for me, Like,
I think they needed to be bigger spiders really liked, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Some bigger spiders.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I actually think it could have used more spiders.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I look this up and they actually used real spiders
to film this, and they used three hundred spiders.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Not one was killed with the entire film.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They were like the Avon Dyle or something spiders they're
from like New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And they looked big and scary, but they can't harm
humans at all. So they were using real spiders.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
That's Aland I just feel like they could have done biggers.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, but you know that the reason why we picked
Arachnophobia is because there is rumors that the new one
there's going to be a remake.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Of this movie.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
There's no word yet on who's going to be in
it or anything, but they're looking to do like kind
of the same aesthetics.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And I was just saying that earlier, where like nowadays
the c G I, oh my god, they could get big,
real looking spiders easily, but they got.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To keep the comedy part of it right, Yes, they do.
That was the whole thing with Jeff Daniel.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Oh my god, I hope it has Kevin Harden.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, what was the scene that made you laugh?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Since it was a comedy, And then I figured out,
you know, there's always that one character.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That's like the like communic relief. I think it was
the Exterminator and John Goodman.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, yeah, I have a clip of it, like the
quirky audio they play every time he comes in a scene. Yeah,
that's right, I'm bad music every time he comes on.
And that was kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
They were saying that they wanted to make it funny too,
so that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
After you got scared, you'd relax again so that they
could scare you again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's why. So what was the scariest part of the
movie for you? Okay, anything make you jump? No, to
be fair that okay, let me backtrack.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I do not have a fear of spiders, Okay, so
watching this, I was like, maybe it'll give me a fear.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I literally saw every scene. I'm like, where are we.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
A book killed at one so I don't know why
we're freaking out. We can't kill the rest of the
girl in the shower. I'm like, girl, just push it down.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The drain.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The shower scene scarred me I literally as a child,
and still sometimes I look up in all the corners
of my shower to make sure there's no spiders.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This is the beginning of the shower scene. Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
There are other people in this house, young lady.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Dad go away, Oh my god, away, use the one
down here, Henry, and they walking around with the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's interesting, jose would I went back and watch. I
remembered thousands of spiders falling off. Oh no, it just
was slowly.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
They are acting like they can't take on these spiders
like people.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You are literally what drupled their size, and like I
don't have a fear of spiders, but do.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I was thinking, I'm so scared of like hamsters, Like
if they had hamsters in this, like hundreds of hamsters
in a barn.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now that camster, you're so cute.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
That's where they get you though.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's like I would cry, They're gonna nibble you to exactly.
They trick you.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Into grabbing them spiders you avoid, you know, hamsters, and
you're gonna step on a hamster and come on, and they.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Have like well like giant hamster.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, just higher tubes everywhere, bark, the scary water bottles
they drink.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Out of someone's where did the lattice go?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh my god, the hamsters eating it?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That is my hor movie.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Watch people, Okay, you're not scared of spiders now that
you've watched no, I thought maybe it would like.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Induce the fear. I gave it a chance. They really did,
And then I was like, oh, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Now that you've watched the original, and it sounds like
you would recommend wouldn't recommendybe.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If you're bored?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, agreed?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Maybe no, no, no, I take if you're going to
watch the new one, if the new one comes out,
you should watch this one to compare it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And are you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Excited about the remake that they're supposed to the spider?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I think if they make it scarier, like it could
be a good horror movie, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Like if they turned it to a horror also.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Leave, Like I watched these and I just they really
boost my confidence, Like I realized how cool I am
for not being scared of spider. Okay, so watching as
I walk out the room, and I'm like, I am
so bad ass.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
So I'm going to watch the new one for that
to see if it gets me or not. But there
it was.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yes, gen Z Versus classic movie. I loved it, Alexis.
Thanks for watching that film.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
If anybody has any film.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Suggestions of what they think Alexa should watch next and
give us a gen Z review, you can hit us
up on social media. Approak and Jeffrey and Hey, thanks
for being here on the podcast. Please subscribe and we'll
be back next week with Today versus Back in the Day.
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