For people with arachnophobia, horror cinema always offers tests of courage. The best-known films of this type include works such as Arachnophobia or Arac Attack – Attack of the Eight-Legged Monsters.
In the cinema you can currently watch a new spider horror film that is really tough. For the most realistic horror possible, the director of Spiders – Your bite is even death real spiders on set used. The result is a really successful genre film that also scores with other qualities.
Spiders is scary with realistic spiders and goes much deeper
In the Parisian banlieues, Kaleb (Théo Christine) lives with his sister Manon (Lisa Nyarko) in the apartment left by their parents. While the siblings regularly argue, the main character prefers to take care of the exotic animals in his room. One day when he brings home a poisonous spider, the animal manages to free itself from the shoebox. Chaos ensues, turning the entire apartment block into a deadly quarantine zone.
Check out a German trailer for Spiders here:
Spiders: Your Bite Is Death – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Through the really scary spider scenes, director Sébastien Vanicek’s film develops into… pure nightmare for every arachnophobic. The portrayal of the animals really starts out realistically, with each offspring they leave behind getting bigger and more monstrous.
But this escalation principle is not Spiders’ only strength – their bite is death. We get the young main characters who have to deal with everyday problems in socially disadvantaged areas believable, complex characters to see. Fortunately, Vanicek, who grew up in the banlieues himself, stays far away from boring horror cliché characters.
Spiders – Their bite is death disgusting and scary with increasingly bizarre monster spiders. But the anxiety is similarly great when police officers beat young people in order to keep them in check.
Spiders in new horror film were staged with real animals
It’s no coincidence that the animals in Vanicek’s film seem so real, especially at the beginning – they were. Speaking to The Daily Beast, the director revealed that 200 real specimens of the particularly large Huntsman spider were on set. For the later CGI versions, the team studied the real spiders extensively in order to make the movements of the artificial monsters as realistic as possible.
If you dare, you can watch Spiders – Her Bite Is Death in the cinema right now. All people with arachnophobia are warned at this point!