The movie's Aesop about Nature taking inexorable revenge against pitiful man—- in fact its whole premise of spiders "ganging up" on humans—- was ironically subverted by the movie's own production. They had to spend a fortune just to get enough tarantulas together, they had to keep the spiders all in separate canisters to keep them from eating each other, they died like flies if the temperature dipped, and they couldn't even get them to "attack" people, because they kept running AWAY whenever a human approached them. And this WITHOUT anyone spraying them with pesticides.
The movie's Aesop about Nature taking inexorable revenge against pitiful man—- in fact its whole premise of spiders "ganging up" on humans—- was ironically subverted by the movie's own production. They had to spend a fortune just to get enough tarantulas together, they had to keep the spiders all in separate canisters to keep them from eating each other, they died like flies if the temperature dipped, and they couldn't even get them to "attack" people, because they kept running AWAY whenever a human approached them. And this WITHOUT anyone spraying them with pesticides.