TARANTULA (1955) – Episode 209 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

"Never saw anything like it! No footprints! No blood! No sign of a struggle! The bones just stripped clean like peeling a banana!" Well, if it were a giant spider, it would be because they liquefy their food by flooding it with digestive enzymes. Of course, there's no such thing as giant spiders. Join this episode's Grue-Crew – Doc Rotten, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to keep up with the giant spider in Tarantula (1955). Wait. There are giant spiders?

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 209 – Tarantula (1955)

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Synopsis: A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

• Director: Jack Arnold
• Writers: Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley (screenplay); Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco (story)
• Producer: William Alland
• Composers: Herman Stein (uncredited); Henry Mancini (uncredited)
• Cinematographer: George Robinson (director of photography)
• Makeup Department: Joan St. Oegger (hair stylist), Bud Westmore (makeup artist)
• Special Effects: Wah Chang (creator: tarantula puppet) (uncredited)
• Visual Effects:
  • Clifford Stine (special photography)
  • David S. Horsley (special photographic effects supervisor) (uncredited)
• Stunts: Eddie Parker (uncredited), Bud Wolfe (uncredited)
• Movie Poster Art: Reynold Brown (uncredited)
• Selected Cast:
  • John Agar as Dr. Matt Hastings
  • Mara Corday as Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
  • Leo G. Carroll as Prof. Gerald Deemer
  • Nestor Paiva as Sheriff Jack Andrews
  • Ross Elliott as Joe Burch
  • Edwin Rand as Lt. John Nolan
  • Raymond Bailey as Townsend
  • Hank Patterson as Josh
  • Bert Holland as Barney Russell
  • Steve Darrell as Andy Andersen
  • Don Dillaway as Jim Bagny (uncredited)
  • Clint Eastwood as Jet Squadron