Tarantula! is a 1955 American science-fiction, giant monster film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco’s teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode, ‘No Food for Thought’
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Tarantula! is a 1955 American science-fiction, giant monster film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco’s teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode, \”No Food for Thought\”, also directed by Arnold. A severely deformed man stumbles through the Arizona desert, falls, and dies. Dr. Matt Hastings, a doctor from the nearby town of Desert Rock, Arizona, is called in by the sheriff to examine the body. He finds himself perplexed; the deceased, biological research scientist Eric Jacobs, was someone he knew and had recently seen. He appears to have acromegaly, a distortion that takes years to reach its current state. A tarantula with a body the size of a large dog, plus its legs, crawls into view: a different specimen crawls to a glass-front inset in a back wall, as a second deforming man appears, attacks Deemer and begins destroying the lab.
As flames engulf the lab, the arachnid escapes and the deformedMan collapses and died. Days later, the sheriff calls and asks Dr. Hastings for help. Hastings finds a mystery involving picked-clean cattle carcasses and large pools of a thick, white liquid. The substance is determined to be tarantulas, but only a ferocity of a normal arachid could produce a quantity of venom in such a quantity that such a monster would not be able to kill a normal person. The next night, a horse rancher and two men inside a pickup truck are also killed. Hastings pays a call on a young, beautiful woman, who has signed on to assist in Dr. Gerald Deemer’s lab. She shows Hastings what they are working on – the use of radioactive elements to produce an artificial super-rient which, once perfected, could provide an unlimited food supply for humanity.
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