Tarantula

When a tarantula mutates into a giant meat-eating monster, Dr Matt Hastings sets out to stop it. Classic giant bug movie from the director of It Came From Outer Space., A sheriff, a scientist, and the Air Force try to stop a mutant tarantula accidentally created by the scientist., Professor Gerald Deemer has been working fervently on a new project: a special growth formula. After he tests it on his lab tarantula in Arizona, the thing somehow escapes into the desert and grows to gargantuan size, destroying all in its path., Classic ’50s monster movie with Leo G Carroll as the scientist whose experiments into animal feed nutrients creates a monstrous spider that escapes and terrorises the Arizona desert towns before local doctor John Agar realises the truth and helps the air force destroy the pest. Directed by Jack Arnold, one of the genre’s best whose other work included The Incredible Shrinking Man, It Came From Outer Space, recently shown on FilmFour and Creature From The Black Lagoon, showing this month.