We present you the Top 20 scariest horror movies about spiders. In these movies you will meet arthropod creatures, from the sight of which you will definitely get a chill on your skin.
Eight Legged Freaks
- IMDB Rating – 5.4
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2002
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $45,867,333
- Director: Ellory Elkayem
- Starring: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E. Doug, Rick Overton, Leon Rippy, Matt Zukri, J. Arlen Jones, Eileen Ryan
Joshua loves spiders and collects them. He feeds his eight-legged favorites with insects caught by himself at the local lake. At first glance, there is nothing special about it. Except that when hazardous chemical waste accidentally gets into the pond, its inhabitants are saturated with strong steroids.
Neither on fish nor on insects they have no effect, but in spiders they cause rapid growth. So, thanks to another portion of food brought by Joshua from the lake, arthropod favorites turn into giants. Their hunger can no longer be satisfied with the old food, so the owner is quickly eaten, and the inhabitants of the city are in terrible danger.
The Vampire Spider
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, drama
- Production: Argentina / 2012
- Director: Gabriel Medina
- Starring: Martin Pirojansky, Alejandro Avada, Jorge Sesan, Paula Iturisa, Aileen Salas, Hervasio Usach, Ricardo Hart.
A young boy named Jeronimo suffers from prolonged depression. The usual treatment helps him badly and one day his father decides to arrange a small trip to the mountains for his offspring. The man sincerely hopes that the fresh air and calm atmosphere will help his son come to himself.
But the trip brings Hieronimo not healing, but another trouble. The thing is that the guy becomes a victim of a large spider, which has a very specific poison. A man can survive after its bite, but only if in the nearest future he will be bitten again by a spider of the same kind. All would be nothing, but relatives of this eight-legged creature mostly live high in the mountains and it is not easy to get to them.
For this movie Gabriel Medina became not only a director but also a screenwriter.
Infestation
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2009
- Director: Kyle Rankin
- Starring: Chris Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard, E. Quincy Sloan, Wesley Thompson, Linda Park, Deborah Geffner, Jim Cody Williams, Bruce Mueller, Ismael ‘East’ Carlo
Cooper is a completely irresponsible person, so one day a boss named Maureen fires him. Only very soon fate forces these two to unite into one team. The thing is that the Earth is subjected to an unexpected attack of alien insects, and Cooper becomes one of the few lucky people who managed to survive and not give in to panic.
Having saved his boss and several other people from certain death, the guy together with them goes in search of a shelter that can protect from giant spiders, wasps and beetles until help arrives. However, the heroes very quickly realize that the shelter does not exist, and no one will come to save them, and therefore personally take up arms.
The creators planned to make this movie the first part of a trilogy, but the sequel never came to light.
Possum
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective
- Production: UK / 2018
- Worldwide box office receipts: $33,225
- Director: Matthew Holness
- Starring: Sean Harris, Alan Armstrong, Andrew Turner, Ryan Enever, Charlie Iles, Joe Gallucci, Rohan Gotobed, Simon Babb, Katie Lightfoot
Philip Connell earns a living by entertaining children with a puppet show. But the work does not bring the man a decent income, so one day the hero goes to live with his uncle Maurice. The relative is not happy about the arrival of his nephew and does not hesitate to show his negative attitude to Philip. Connell, meanwhile, is trying to get rid of a living spider puppet, which has haunted him since childhood.
But the plans to destroy the creepy toy are put on the back burner when Philip is undeservedly accused of kidnapping a child. In order to regain his honorable name, the puppeteer begins his own investigation, but it unexpectedly plunges the man into the terrible secrets of his past.
The director and screenwriter of the movie was the same person – Matthew Holness.
Arachnophobia
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
- Production: USA / 1990
- Budget: $31,000,000
- US box office: $53,208,180
- Director: Frank Marshall
- Starring: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin, Brian McNamara, Mark L. Taylor, Henry Jones, Peter Jason, James Handy
Ross Jennings is terrified of spiders. One day the hero has to face his fear. The fact is that in the city where the man lives, accidentally gets a poisonous spider from the shores of the Amazon. Arthropod creature quickly settles in a new place and reproduces a whole army of relatives. Because of this, people begin to die en masse from fatal bites.
However, only Ross can save the townspeople. After all, the queen of poisonous insects, cozily settled in his house. So, despite the wild arachnophobia, the man begins to engage in catching spiders. Only here it will be difficult to do this, because the venomous subjects carefully guard their foremother.
7 Guardians of the Tomb
- IMDB Rating – 4.5
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
- Production: China, Australia, Russia, Thailand / 2018
- Worldwide box office receipts: $7,910,928
- Director: Kimble Randall
- Starring: Li Bingbing, Kellan Lats, Wu Chun, Kelsey Grammer, Shane Jacobson, Stef Dawson, Jason Chong, Eva Liu
One day in China they find the mummy of the emperor, the age of which scientists determine in 200 thousand years. Archaeologists from different countries promptly go to explore the tomb of the monarch, but soon realize that they have fallen into a trap. The cave, which served as the tomb of the ruler, is filled with an army of hungry spiders.
The size of arthropods is not great, but thanks to the coordinated work of eight-legged insects very successfully manages to hunt people, eating their flesh. Arachnids quickly cut off the heroes way to freedom and begin to drive their prey deep into the cave. Now, to survive, the team needs to find a second way out of the tomb, but to do this is not easy, because the tomb is filled with a mass of dangerous traps.
The movie was shot by four countries at once: China, Australia, Russia and Thailand. For the first two countries (China and Australia), the movie, at the time of its premiere, became the largest joint film project.
Earth vs. the Spider
- IMDB Rating – 4.3
- Genre: Horror, Fiction, Thriller
- Production: USA / 2001
- Director: Scott Ziel
- Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Devon Gummersall, Amelia Heinle, Teresa Russell, Christopher Cousins, Mario Roccuzzo, John Cho, Randall Huber, Greg Harris, Lloyd Lowe Jr.
Quentin is a regular loser. Girls do not pay attention to him, and his peers mock his every failure. However, everything changes when the laboratory, where the hero works as a security guard, is attacked by robbers. Unknown masked men kill everyone, and only Quentin miraculously manages to survive. But instead of calling for help, the guy decides to take advantage of the situation.
With the help of a drug developed by scientists, Quentin is going to become Spider-Man – a superhero, which he loved from the comics. But the reality turns out to be far from his dreams. The untested substance, once in the human body, turns the guy not into a hero, but a spider monster, thirsty for human blood.
Long before the premiere of this movie, the United States released a horror movie with an identical title. It was released in 1958 and tells about a giant killer spider.
Arachnid
- IMDB Rating – 3.9
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Adventure
- Production: Spain, USA, Mexico / 2001
- Budget: $570,000
- Director: Jack Sholder
- Starring: Chris Potter, Alex Reed, Jose Sancho, Neus Asensi, Ravil Isyanov, Luis Lorenzo Crespo, Rockford Allen, Jesus Cabrero, Robert Vicencio, Hector Chiquin.
One day aliens bring a terrible virus to Earth. Having released the contagion on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, the inhabitants of other planets fly away. The islanders begin to suffer from a terrible disease and soon stop communicating with the outside world.
So, the government decides that all the inhabitants of the island are dead, and sends a group of scientists to the scene. The task of virologists to investigate and, if possible, destroy the new disease. Only after arriving on a piece of land, the heroes quickly realize that the virus does not kill people, but makes them mutate. Now every inhabitant of the island is a giant spider, hungry for human blood and flesh.
The director of the movie Jack Sholder admitted that he made the movie only because of the solid fee. The script of this movie work, he did not catch him at all and, in the opinion of the man, was absolutely stupid. However, many of Sholder’s colleagues noted that the movie turned out to be a pretty good horror movie.
Ticks
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Horror, Fantastic
- Production: USA / 1993
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director: Tony Randall
- Starring: Rosalind Allen, Amy Dolenz, Seth Green, Virginia Keane, Rey Oriel, Alfonso Ribeiro, Peter Scolari, Dina Dairit, Michael Medeiros, Barry Lynch.
Jarvis Tanner is a drug dealer. The man makes a living by growing marijuana on a production scale. From the sale of drugs, the hero gets quite a decent profit, but because of exorbitant greed Jarvis is always short of money. That is why one day the man decides to accelerate the growth of the drug plant with the help of steroids.
However, the active substances affect not only the plants, but also a clutch of mites. Having been saturated with chemical doping, these spider-like creatures begin to increase in size at an incredible rate. So, very soon ordinary mites turn into giant killer monsters and start attacking people.
Despite the fact that the movie was filmed in 1993, many viewers note the strong realism presented in the movie special effects and tick monsters.
Webs
- IMDB Rating – 3.7
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, thriller
- Production: USA / 2003
- Director: David Wu
- Starring: Richard Greco, Kate Greenhouse, Colin Fox, Richard Yerwood, Jeffrey Douglas, David Nerman, Jason Jones, Anthony Ashby, Craig Blair, Dylan Birk.
Dean, Junior, Ray and Shelly are fellow electricians and just friends. One day, the heroes are sent by a full company to cut off the electricity in a building that is scheduled for demolition. Only there a group of guys discovers a long abandoned laboratory and a strange installation. For the sake of interest the heroes decide to run it, and very soon a portal to a parallel reality opens in front of them.
So the friends find themselves in a world ruled by creepy cannibal spiders. Trying to save their lives, the friends try in every possible way to reopen the portal. However, when they succeed, not all of them manage to return home. However, Ray and Shelly are not going to leave their friends in the lurch: they take their weapons and set off again into the world of spiders.
Itsy Bitsy
- IMDB Rating – 4.9
- Genre: Horror
- Production: USA / 2019
- Director: Mika Gallo
- Starring: Bruce Davison, Elizabeth Roberts, Denise Crosby, Armand Darbo, Chloe Perrin, Treva Etienne, Mattie Cardarople, Eileen Dietz, Spencer Watson
After the death of her youngest son, a single mother named Kara slips into depression and starts using drugs. Only the realization that she has two more children, makes the woman take up her mind and get a job. So the heroine becomes a nurse, and together with the children goes to live in the house of her employer – a collector named Walter.
However, the heroes do not even suspect what nightmare awaits them in the new place. Another archaeological antiquity, acquired by a man, turns out to be not just a beautiful thing, but a real prison for a prehistoric spider. Everything would be nothing, but in the house of the new owner very aggressive arthropod accidentally gets freedom.
After the end of the end credits, a short scene appears on the screen. It continues the movie and clearly shows that the story of the characters is not over yet.
Spiders
- IMDB Rating – 4.0
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, thriller
- Production: Israel, USA / 2000
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director: Gary Jones
- Starring: Lana Parria, Josh Green, Oliver Macready, Nick Swarts, Mark Phelan, David Carpenter, Leslie Zemeckis, Mark Totti, Andrew Stoddard, Jonathan Breck.
This is a two-part movie that tells about the ruthlessness of spiders and clearly shows that any experiment can get out of control. A spaceship with a secret laboratory, where scientists conducted experiments on spiders, crashes on the planet.
So arthropods-subjects get freedom and thanks to new opportunities, which they have as a result of the experiments conducted by scientists, begin to threaten all mankind with total destruction. The world, of course, manages to prevent the apocalypse, but the love of some representatives of society for mutated spiders soon puts the planet under threat again.
The first movie of this dilogy “Spiders” (2000) was directed by Gary Jones, but the man did not work on the continuation, so the second movie “Spiders 2” (2001) was shot by Sam Furstenberg.
Arachnia
- IMDB Rating – 3.4
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2003
- Director: Brett Piper
- Starring: Rob Monkiewicz, Irene Joseph, David Bunce, Bevin McGraw, Alexus Young, James Aspden, Dan Merriman, Fred LaTorella, Christopher Thompson.
A group of students led by Professor Mugford goes to the state of Arizona to get an internship there. On the way, a small research airplane of the heroes crashes. So, thanks to an emergency landing, the whole group finds itself in an unknown place and goes in search of people to get to the nearest city with their help.
However, the heroes soon realize that it will not be easy to return to civilization. After all, the terrain in which they found themselves is swarming with giant spiders. They are angry and very hungry, and therefore do not mind to eat human flesh and blood.
And the screenwriter and director of the movie was the same person – Brett Piper.
Big Ass Spider!
- IMDB Rating – 5.3
- Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2013
- Director: Mike Mendes
- Starring: Greg Granberg, Lin Shaye, Ruben Pla, Alexis Kendra, Lombardo Boyar, Bob Bledsoe, Eben Kostbar, Ray Wise, Claire Kramer, Patrick Bosho
One day, the DNA of alien life falls into the hands of scientists. After studying the unexpected find, the doctors come to the conclusion that it can be used to accelerate the growth of all living organisms, turning both animals and plants into a giant version of themselves. The scientists realize that the cells they have are the doorway to a new round of evolution, so they quickly embark on research trying to enlarge fruits and vegetables.
During the experiment, not only the plant food is exposed to a kind of growth hormone, but also the spider lurking in it. So on the streets of Los Angeles appears a real monster, to cope with which even the military lacks the strength.
Kingdom of the Spiders
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, Fantastic
- Production: USA / 1977
- Budget: $500,000
- US box office receipts: $17,000,000
- Director: John ‘Bud’ Kardos
- Starring: William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Lieu Dressler, David McLean, Natasha Ryan, Olthowais Davis, Joe Ross, Marcy Lafferty, Adele Malice-Morey
Because of the pesticides with which Walter Colby’s farm fields are constantly irrigated, the spiders’ natural environment has been disrupted and their food has dried up. That is why one day arthropod predators, in order to survive, begin to jointly hunt the man’s livestock. Except that the farmer from this state of affairs is not delighted.
On the advice of veterinarian Hansen and an arachnologist named Diane Ashley, Colby decides to destroy the pests and begins to burn the nests of tarantulas. However, instead of fleeing, the proliferating spiders declare war on the humans. Together, the arachnids create a whole army and begin to massacre civilians, turning them into their prey.
Tiffany Bolling here got the main female role, because at the time of filming the movie, she was the only actress who was not afraid of spiders. In the movie, the woman played an arachnologist named Diane Ashley.
Ice Spiders
- IMDB Rating – 3.1
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA, Germany / 2007
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director: Tibor Takacs
- Starring: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Williams, Thomas Calabro, David Millburn, Noah Bastian, Carly King, Stephen J. Cannell, Matt Whitaker, Clayton Taylor, Charles Halford.
In the snowy mountains of Utah, not far from a popular ski resort, American scientists are engaged in the creation of very specific weapons. In the laboratory, doctors create giant spider-soldiers. But if you increase the size of arthropods scientists were able to without problems, then to take the giants under control is quite a difficult task.
However, the servants of science do not despair and are trying in every possible way to train the grown mutants. However, one day the behavior of spiders accidentally gets out of control. Having killed most of their creators, the eight-legged monsters break free and go straight to the resort to eat vacationers.
Many of the spider species shown in the movie exist in real life.
In the Spider’s Web
- IMDB Rating – 3.5
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2007
- Director: Terry Winsor
- Starring: Lance Henriksen, Emma Catherwood, Lisa Livingstone, Kian Barry, Sohrab Ardeshir, Mike Rogers, Michael Smiley, Jane Perry, Rajesh Latkar.
Five American tourists set out to explore the jungles of India. During the trip, one of the girls in the group is bitten by a poisonous spider. The heroes realize that they will not be able to get Geraldine to the hospital in time to receive specialized treatment. That’s why the whole group decides to ask for help from a shaman from a tribe of natives, which is located nearby.
A man named Lecorpus, despite the fact that he lives in the jungle and has the title of shaman, is an American and has a doctor’s education, so he gladly agrees to help with the treatment of the girl. Except that the more the heroes are in the village, the more they realize that the locals intend not to help them, but to feed an army of eight-legged creatures.
The slogan of the movie “Running is impossible, screaming is useless” conveys the hopelessness of the situation in which the heroes will find themselves, trusting the tribe of natives.
Spiders 3D
- IMDB Rating – 3.4
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA, Israel / 2012
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Director: Tibor Taka
- Starring: Patrick Muldoon, Krista Campbell, Pete Lee-Wilson, Sidney Sweeney, Shelley Varod, Jesse Steele, William Hope, Atanas Srebrev, Christian Ryan Contreras, John Mack
Jason Cole is a supervisor of one of New York City’s subways. The man lives a quiet life, but everything changes when a huge Russian space station crashes in the place of the tunnel he manages the subway. On it, scientists were creating and studying mutant spiders.
That’s why the wreckage of the fallen object brings New York not only serious destruction, but also arthropod monsters of gigantic size, spreading a terrible virus. However, instead of destroying a new species of dangerous arachnids, the U.S. government decides to catch them, and independently continue research. But the eight-legged creatures are not eager to return under the control of scientists.
For actor Patrick Muldoon (he plays the role of the main character – Jason Cole) the movie was the second horror movie about giant spiders. Before participating in this project, the man starred in the movie “Ice Spiders” (2007).
Lavalantula
- IMDB rating – 46
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2015
- Director: Mike Mendes
- Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples, Patrick Renna, Carlos Bernard, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Ralph Garmen, Danny Woodburn, Noah Hunt
One day a real series of natural disasters strikes Los Angeles. The city begins to be shaken by earthquakes, and the long-dormant volcano suddenly decides to wake up. In addition to lava huge mountain spews and stone eggs, from which quickly begin to hatch very dangerous giant spiders. Instead of blood, these arthropods have corrosive acid, and fire spews from their jaws.
Seeing this terrible picture, a man named Colton West rushes home to get his family to a safe place before the monsters fill the city. Only here the hero quickly realizes that it will not be easy to carry out his plans. After all, his son in the company of friends went for a walk around the city.
Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Steve Guttenberg and Leslie Easterbrook, who received roles in this movie, have previously met on the same set. All of these actors had the opportunity to star together in the comedy film “Police Academy”, which was released in 1984.
Camel Spiders
- IMDB Rating – 2.5
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2011
- Budget: $500,000
- Director: Jim Wynorski
- Starring: Brian Krause, C. Thomas Howell, Melissa Brasselle, Frankie Cullen, Haley Sanchez, Diana Terranova, Gigi Erneta, Michael Swan, Kurt Yeager, Matt Borlenji.
In Iraq, people are suffering greatly from camel spider infestations. The fact is that arthropods of this species are so aggressive that they attack everything around them, including people. The military, of course, are trying to cope with eight-legged predators, but all the attempts of the soldiers are in vain. However, the habitat of arachnids of this species is strictly limited, so the world is not particularly worried.
However, everything changes when in the desert, located in the southwestern United States completely by accident gets one of the representatives of these spiders. Having quickly settled in a new place, the arachnid begins to multiply rapidly and soon America is overwhelmed by a nightmare. Hordes of spiders devour people until a group of brave soldiers decides to fight back.
Camel spiders, who became the main villains of this movie, exist in reality. In real life, representatives of this species, as in the movie, reach a fairly large size, very voracious, and aggressive. The official name of these arthropods is Solipugae.
Other Spider Movies
- Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
- Creepies (2004)
- Star Runners (2009)
- Arachnoquake (2012)
- Monster Island (2004)
- The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
