!! The Film:
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* There are two versions of the poster for the film, one with a small spider dangling in front of a full moon, seen on the main article, and one without the spider (as seen [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099052/mediaviewer/rm1583127809 here]]). The reason for the latter version is that the former ''freaked'' people out with its subtlety. Well done!
* '''[[BigBad The General]]''', period. The main spider that's roughly the size of a baseball mitt and has an extraordinarily lethal bite. The General is equal in size to the largest Tarantula specimens found in South America!
* Jerry Manley, the General's first victim, has the large spider crawling into his tent and underneath the blanket. When he tries to investigate the creeper by grabbing it, the General immediately bites down before retreating back out of the tent. When Jerry's body is transported back home, nobody noticed his killer snuck into the casket to [[ImAHumanitarian feed on him]]. The coroner is visibly disturbed by [[BodyHorror what is left of Jerry]], which he later describes as looking "like a vampire got to him".
* The killer spiders are also capable of jumping, much like the common Jumping Spiders.
** Talk about the Ultimate Spider; the General's the size of a Tarantula, they can jump like Jumping Spiders and also has their eyes, they can build webs the size of a full-grown adult, and their venom is so potent, it makes the venom of the Black Widow, the Brown Recluse, the Sidney Funnel-Web, and the Brazilian Wandering Spider look like a harmless sting from a wasp in comparison. Couple that with the aggression...
** It's established in the middle of the film that the spiders are basically immune to normal pesticide spray, only dying once they're doused with a powerful industrial-grade acid. So in addition to being lightning-fast, very aggressive, and having a guaranteed killing bite, they also can't be killed unless you either [[KillItWithFire burn them]] or get up close and squash them.
* When Atherton investigates the spiders' nest in Ross's barn, he is [[AdmiringTheAbomination amazed at the work they put in building up the webs]]. Cue a shot of a few dead animals stuck in the spider's webs which the spiders have fed on, including a rat...and a cat!
-->'''Atherton:''' My, you've been busy! Incredible!
** Speaking of the spider webs in the movie, it should be noted that the squared orb webs (named like that since the main part is more like a square than an actual orb) found both in the Venezuelan jungle AND Ross's barn respectively are nearly the size of an adult human... and this was BEFORE the discovery of the Darwin's Bark Spider in Madagascar!
* At one point, Ross and company find Irv and Blair Kendall dead on their couch in front of their TV with a bucket of popcorn. One leans in to inspect the faces of one of the corpses...AND A SPIDER CRAWLS OUT OF IRV'S NOSTRIL. Jesus, talk about a gross-out.
* The shower scene. What's worse than being ambushed by an incredibly deadly spider that could be hiding under your newspaper? How about being ambushed by an incredibly deadly spider while you're completely naked ''and'' squeezing your eyes shut to keep soap from running into them, and not even noticing that it's on you because of all the running water. At least until you feel its legs tickling you in a sensitive place...
* The climax where Ross is knocked to the floor and sees the General slowly crawling on top of him, from his left foot and up to his leg. The General suddenly stops by Ross's thigh for a minute, making it more tense on what it plans to do. Even more haunting is that this is the exact same thing that happened to Ross as a baby, leading to his [[TitleDrop arachnophobia]].
** That same climax starts with [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Ross's house being overrun with spiders]]. Guaranteed to make your skin crawl.
* The [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment random scene]] involving a CreepyDoll opening its eyes as one of the spiders descends toward its face, which occurs with no explanation, carrying implications that supernatural phenomena may exist within the scope of the film's universe as well.

!! The Video Game:
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* The way the game's difficulty crawls up is by introducing increasingly aggressive and fast-moving actions to the spiders. They'll eventually start falling off the ceiling, then start jumping at you from the floor and the ceiling, the latter resulting in your character struggling to peel the spider off their face.
* The game's [[StatusLine status bar]] features a portrait of your player character, like {{VideoGame/Doom}}'s Status Bar Face of Doomguy, and it will [[ShowsDamage change as you take damage]]. It starts off with a reasonably cheerful-looking exterminator, but as you take damage, his smile is replaced by an increasingly worried expression full of dismay, and he becomes more and more gaunt and pale, finally turning into a bare grinning skull covered in webs when you die.
* The game over screen. A picture is displayed of your character where he's basically been overrun by spiders and has webs in his nose. It's pretty freaky.
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