Thanks for watching guys! Hope yall have a good weekend and odds are I will see you again with the same video in a couple of days because this whole site is on fire with copyright currently!
@@PhilieBlunt666 The spider from that one commercial where the dude went to squish it, because his girl was too chicken shit to do it herself, suplexes the dude and drags his ass off would like to have a word with you.
@@RoanokeGaming and thats why its the best in the movie. i loved it as a kid, Even though this movie is why i have an inate fear of the dark and the under of my bed.
@@EmoChipmonkVOD i actually saw this in theaters, my buddy had tickets to the like midnight prescreener so he came by my work and was like yo bring your girl and we did like a double date type thing to go see this. Definitely one of the better "free tickets" type movies ive ever gone to
"Get back, you eight legged freaks!" was actually an adlib that the director liked so much that he changed the name of the movie to it. One of the rare reverse title drops.
From what I remember, the title change was not because he liked the line, but because the Iraq War had just started, and "Arach Attack" suddenly sounded...unfortunate. That he liked the line was possibly why that phrase was ultimately made into the new title, but the change would happen regardless.
The one thing I actually remember from this movie is the absolutely wild sound effects they use. The spiders scream and yell at the people, there's punching sound effects, it's honestly like watching the gremlins as spiders.
My favorite sound effect was the recycled Dino from The Flintstones noises when the car hits the spider. 8 year old me was DELIGHTED at this horror comedy for that reason alone
My favorite moment is when a jumping spider crashes into a diner, glomps on to a stuffed deer head taking a big bite, and then spitting in disgust when it realizes the head is dry.
I love how the jumping spiders in this movie actually have voice lines that sound like gibberish, but are actual real words, just edited to sound incomprehensible
Don't forget the one spider holding on to the back of the police car yelling ow because it's "feet" where skidding along the road, which would hurt irl if this was to actually happen
This was literally my favorite movie in preschool, it's so cool that you covered it. It's also what sparked my interest in spiders, by kindergarten I could spell cephalothorax and identify random spiders around the house. My dumb teacher actually complained to my parents that I was reading too many non-fiction books. So yeah, I was basically that kid riding his bike to see some spiders. Now I'm 24 doing manual labor and drinking too much. Funny how that happens.
Tarantula breeder here! My mom -who also bred T’s-and I used to watch this when I was a kid before she passed away. We thought it was hysterical. Fun fact; the blue tarantula with pink toes who ‘stalks’ down that guy and bites him is an Avicularia species. It’s known for its relaxed attitude and relatively harmless bite. It’s often recommended as a beginner species. Thank you for covering this great movie even if you’re afraid of spiders! :)
That's genuinely super interesting and that's my whole catch 22 with spiders. I think they are necessary to the environment, and they are fascinating creatures. And I have some extreme in person archanaphobia. Still super neat, than you for sharing!
I think the dirt bike chase will always be my favorite scene from this movie. I was a little kid watching this movie originally (10 years old) wanting a dirt bike anyway, then there’s bad ass metal playing during the scene, and it’s just dudes being chased by giant jumping spiders on bikes. THE DUDE SUPERMANNED A GIANT SPIDER IN MID AIR ON HIS DIRT BIKE IN THE DESERT THAN CAUSES AN OIL TANKER TO FLIP AND EXPLODE KILLING A BUNCH OF THEM. Fucking awesome. This movie is Gold for kids, or people who are really high.
In an extended scene of like a few seconds, the reason the Spider beats him is because the dude punched the spider when it tried to attack, the spider got pissed, and just decided to return the favor xD
I remember this movie as a kid. And the one fps game they had on their website, just a quick download. Going through the mall and eliminating giant jumping, orb weaver and...well one big turantula. Awesome times
I work in a wearhouse in oklahoma, and we are over run by spiders. Some of them that I've had to enter pvp combat with for car parts have been damn near dollar bill sized, while we also have rats, snakes, and sometimes geckos shipped in from factories in parts boxes.
Another impossibility in all this is that spiders in real life are incredibly cannibalistic, even mothers will often see their own young as easy snacks. Even if they were smarter like in this film they'd still be constantly eating each other as it's an abundant food source for them
The only exception being the stated communal species that the main antagonist is a member of. But yeah, the rest should have been devouring each other.
Even during mating session it is risky. A lot of males end up dead and even so if both strike each other and does not get any aide then their open circular system cannot close up their wounds and they both will die. The only few spiders that would survive are the trap door spiders and that made up species in the movie.
depends on the species, there are several that are communal and social like a few huntsman spiders that live in nests that can contain hundreds of spiders without cannibalism being an issue
@@krlosz1996 Yup. Cannibalism in spiders is seriously misunderstood. For starters, while common, it's not nearly as common as people believe. It's also wayyyy more subtle. Some spiders never cannibalise. Others will have males willingly kill themselves to give food to the females. Others again like the Brazillian wolfspiders will have males hunting older females to "renew" the population, which is pretty unique. All in all, cannibalism for spiders is an advantage for selection and reproduction, not a drawback.
I personally love this movie because it was filmed in a small town my aunt and uncle live in and one of my cousins was an extra and body double in the film. Makes it far more special to me
SAFELY avoid deer. Just don’t go straight on at them. True story from a friend of mine: he knew a guy who was driving at night with his wife outside the city. Deer jumps in front of them, and they gotta hit it. Deer goes through the windshield, but it doesn’t die, it just kicks like hell, stomping the guy’s wife to death.
This definitely brought back some memories. As a kid I was fascinated about spiders and thought this movie was awesome. Better yet, I actually had a substitute teacher who was one of the stuntwomen on this movie. Living in Arizona it was cool knowing it was filmed here and her showing us set photos.
Interesting side note: if spiders managed to grow to that size, they almost certainly wouldn't have the ability to crawl along walls and ceilings since the setae on their feet would never be able to support so much mass. We see this already in a lot of (normal-sized) tarantulas that have developed larger claws to aid in climbing. I know it's not much, but at least it would put the bastards back on a more 2-dimensional warfighting environment rather than 3D one.
That and if they get too big theyll suffocate and be crushed under their own weight. The fact that most spiders aren't communal and would fight eachother makes it theoretically better for the humans, too.
Australia started off as a penal colony...but I think it was nature's penal colony before then. Everything there is obscenely dangerous. I believe there's a sort of nettle plant that induces so much pain that people are hospitalized from touching it.
"As you can see here, this is another typical example of Feline stupidity. And over here, on exhibit B, you can see this pack of wolves making the smart choice and swallowing their pride by running away instead of risking their lives fighting THE GIANT ARACHNIDS."
Straight up would watch this movie every time it was on HBO, usually in the early morning before school. What a campy, terrible movie that will forever hold my heart
This movie is so God damned good. The story is pretty solid tbh. The way the sequence of events happen honestly makes sense because they follow the rules set within thier own movie. Like disappearing and bringing back characters with the mine, the way the phone line goes down and the subsequent fight to get the 1 cell phone in town some cell service. Anyone who says it's bad isn't paying attention to the movie. The perfume part was pulled off way better than evolutions head and shoulders idea. *to be a boomer about it too, having 1 cell phone in a town like that back then is so goddamned realistic.
I like how the jumping spiders were shown stalking/chasing their prey. This is something our real life(and thankfully tiny sized) jumping spiders do…well the stalking part more so than the chasing part.
Jumping spiders are smart too. You can tell when they are determining their distance before they jump. They are able to see great which allows them to pick a good prey to hunt. Wolf spiders are almost the same, in NC you can find them to be as big as your hand but even then they try to avoid you.
If you use electricity you probably use coal. Coal still supplies 80% of Americas electricity. Solar is a joke and we all saw how badly the wind turbines failed in Texas. I'm so tired of people thinking that coal is bad. I use coal to power and heat my home like millions of other Americans. But if I say that on Facebook I get accused of wanting to switch back to whale oil.
@@Hank_Hill. Where the fuck did you get the stat that coal supplies 80% of America's electricity The EIA estimated that fossil fuels as a *whole* make up about 80% if America's electricity. Coal is the least common and least efficient sort of fossil fuel. Coal has *significantly* more resources invested in it than nuclear power - When the fuck did you hear someone say they want to bring back nuclear power jobs - And yet it barely makes up a larger portion of our energy production. Even ignoring the whole "Massively destructive to the enviornment and kills the people who harvest it" thing, coal is a shitty power source that should have been left behind years ago.
Man, I remember this movie. I was already arachnophobic due to reasons, and this movie didn't help. Terrified the heck out of me as a kid, but for some reason I would watch it everyday for several months. Was so terrified that the other kids in the house got mad at me
When I was a child, my cousins and I used a hose as a "telephone" to play, until on one occasion a spider got into my mouth, specifically a Loxosceles laeta, one of the most dangerous species in my country, it was in my mouth just for an instant and luckily it didn't bite me but feeling its legs move in my mouth before I spit it out felt like an eternity, so the scene where something similar happens in the movie affected me more than it should when I saw the movie as a child, although now as an adult I could bear it almost without problems ... I am not hyperventilating, you are hyperventilating!
So when this movie was coming out, I was like seven or something. And I was losing my mind with anticipation I wanted to watch it in theaters the day it came out. I loved and still love spiders so much. The movie was set to come out on a Friday. I remember seeing a commercial where this guys spoke in a hyped up monster truck announcer type voice over some shots of the movie. He said "Eight Legged Freaks is coming out Wednesday, not Friday! Why?? Because they JUST CAN'T WAIT!!!" I jumped up and started jumping around with excitement. I ran out into the living room and grabbed my mom saying "mom! Mom! It's coming out in two days! Why? BECAUSE THEY JUST CAN'T WAIT!!" I was ecstatic. I didn't know that was a thing. I had never heard of a movie having a release date and then just being like, nah we are going to come out sooner instead. It was very memorable.
I learned there's a species of spider that actually keeps frogs as pets! the frog will eat pests that could endanger the spider and their offspring, and the spider will make sure the frog is safe nature, man- it's nuts
@@Khajiidaro not really the frogs are comically smaller than the spider. Considering the spider is a species of tarantula. It’s like if we had a t.Rex as a pet. Would it really be your pet or is it just deciding not to eat you?
Wait really? Would those long legged spiders be one of them? I should have a picture somewhere of one of those spiders just chilling with a frog and I vividly remember thinking it was weird they'd act like homies (observed them for an hour and they went everywhere together)
@@TrashbashMan From what I remember it's a relationship between the two where the frog basically eats all the things that would eat the spiders eggs and the spider eats all the things that would eat the frog. It's super adorable. I don't know if its anything outside of specific species tho.
The very first book my parents ever gave me was called "Be Nice to Spiders." It was my very first lesson in ecology, and it prevented me from becoming arachnophobic.
Although I have arachnophobia I don’t mind scorpions or some mites and I love jumping spiders and tarantulas however the spiders and other arachnids I don’t like are the thin long legged ones like daddy long legs or huntsman spiders
Jumping spiders present that rare and weird problem for the formula of how large something can be to remain cute and get cuddled, but be large enough to be creepy.
"peta might get onto me for this, but don't try to dodge animals on the road" Oh yes, Peta would tell you to aim right for them, weaving through traffic and onto the sidewalk to hit a dog being walked by its owner.
@@AmericanAppleProd Dogs have been so domesticated that if they don't have a owner, they won't survive out in the world, as we see from strays getting into fights and getting really bad diseases that get them killed or worse. PETA takes dogs away from their owners and then waits 2 days tops before killing the dog in most cases.
@@burgbass Might have more to do with the idea that Peta acts all holy about it that gets people mad. Pretty sure people get some animals that are saved are just unable to get fully saved and death might be a mercy.
Roanoke: Is scared of spiders Me: "Haha! Weak!" Roanoke: Motions towards a ladder with a sign that says "Climb me" Me: Breaks into tears and pulls out the crucifix
id say fear of heights is better than fear of spiders (unless you live in australia) literally most spiders are harmless you have to blame that arachnophobia on your ancestors
Considering how smart jumping spiders are at their current diminutive sizes, I wonder how sentient & friendly/hostile they would get if they are to evolve to such sizes with more neurons. I had always thought of having a pet jumping spider to the size of a cat so I could have fun with its curiosity & pet its cute flat head.
I would highly recommend you check out the book Children of Time by Adrien Tchaikovsky. It is literally about a planet that gets terraformed and ends up inhabited by an evolved species of jumping spider. It is a fascinating read, especially if you like spiders
It's also important to note that tarantulas, especially the terrestrials, are surprisingly fragile. If you drop one any higher than a foot, you risk rupturing their abdomen which would result in death.
Right! All these "killer spider" movies just treat them like fucking tanks when they're anything but. Bullets don't work, knives don't work, falling from a second story window does nothing, getting hit by cars does nothing, what in the world are these things made of? It'd be a lot scarier to see a spider acting naturally and using stealth rather than just walking through a nuke like any other typical monster movie creature.
@@DarthPyrusTheVirus yes funny to think that a giant black widow or Red Back would be vastly more deadly then a giant Tarantula just cause of how they hunt vs a tarantula hmm now i want a more accurate giant spider movie 🤔
23:20 is hysterical to me, because you have a jumping spider literally ushering other spiders to get into the mall in slower "go go go" sort of fashion. That said, the one thing you missed regarding the spiders moult is that... they simply grow way too fast and don't eat nearly enough to sustain them. The spiders wouldn't be out of their first moult before they start their next with that sort of exponential growth in the first few days, and so they'd all almost certainly die mid-moult as they get stuck in old exoskeletons and then wind up still trying to moult again. Moulting is also a process that takes a huge amount of energy on the part of spiders - certainly not enough for one single man to feed the sheer number of spiders we see. Basically, even if there was theoretically enough oxygen to support spiders of this size, they would NEVER grow to that size in just a few days naturally, and any imbalance in their system causing them to grow faster than they can manage to moult would inevitably just kill them as they'd die mid-moult due to being unable to shed properly. Not even talking about the fact that many, many, many species of spiders are cannibals and even with higher intelligence, these eight legged dudes would probably just eat each other first. Maybe they'd just say "Sorry bro but I'm hungry" given the higher intelligence and be a bit polite about it.
many years later, I now know that the spdiers coming out of that' guys mouth at 21:08 are based on the common gold and black/zig-zag spider! A harmless garden spider with very limited ability to move around off its own web! Well, mostly harmless . If they did bite someone it'd be like a bad mosquito bite.
I think they're called orb weaver spiders. They grow pretty big, but, like you said, are harmless and keep mosquitoes and houseflies at bay. They're neat.
As a kid with arachnophobia, this movie used to chill me to the bone. Hard. As a man who overcame his phobia, it cracks me up. I got into spiders so I could get rid of my fear. It worked through years of therapy. By the way, Roanoke Gaming, have you thought about reviewing the movie Arachnophobia? Oldie but a goldie.
This literally gave me arachnophobia when I was a kid. I was the kid who'd play with spiders, then saw this movie, had nightmares, and... Well, I can't be in the same room I saw a spider in in the last few hours.
right, I never kill a spider in the house unless it's very venomous. Instead I usually cheer them on and thank them for keeping the house free of flies and moths. Spiders are the real guardians of the house lol.
After watching this, it is my theory that the world from ‘The Ricks Must Be Crazy’ is actually one where the spiders in this movie weren’t destroyed and continues to develop themselves.
The spiders in the mouth always messed me up as a kid. I still almost die anytime I feel a small chunk of anything when I'm drinking. It's not often, but dying isn't fun 🤣
Little correction: While you are absolutely right with the fact that insects breath through their threachea, this is not the whole truth with spiders. They actually have small booklungs as well, which help them out with their breathing by supplying their hemolymph with some oxygen
A few species of spiders have both book lungs and tracheae, while "modern" spiders have just the trachea, and if I recall correctly some "archaic" species only have book lungs.
Spiders belonging to the orders of Mesothelae and Mygalomorphae (Segmented abdomen spiders like the Kimura Spider, tarantulas, trapdoor spiders) have Book lungs. Araneamorph spiders, what would be called True Spiders, do not have book lungs.
The book lungs are an evolutionary anachronism held from the transitional organism between eurypterids and whip tail scorpions which is what we currently Believe branched off into the 3 orders of spider we see today, given that we have fossils of Araneamorph spiders with spinnerettes and the whip tail structure.
Isn’t that the difference between „old world“ spiders and „new world“ spiders? Or something like that. Like a Huntsman vs. a Sydney Funnel Web Spider! Thin and fast vs. big and bulky! As well as slow :p But good in a Spider 1 vs 1. Just not at catching stuff… unless you use traps like the Sydney!
The first spider that attacked Joshua is Avicularia Avicularia aka the Pink Toe Tarantula. This tarantula is a super docile tree dweller from South America in and around the jungles of Columbia. They prefer to run and jump away, as they are super shy and heavily prefer to avoid any confrontation. Most spiders and tarantulas are like this too. We do hear about spider bite reports. Especially from venomous species that can really make a very healthy man sick. This is rare, as they only bite if they feel cornered. Tarantulas especially will give warnings if they feel cornered by showing what is called a threat posture. Their body flexes in a L shape, the upper body and first 4 pairs of legs are raised in the air towards the perceived threat. You can see under them and their fangs. The more defensive tarantulas from Africa and Asia take it one step further by slapping the ground. This it to intimidate to show how fast they are. It is rare they will bite first without warning but it is possible they will. All tarantulas can slap, and even will slap their owner. My Texas brown, one of the most docile slapped my hand when I was removing her water bowl for cleaning. Still do not let this movie fool you into thinking spiders are bad and aggressive. They are defensive creatures and to them we're fricken giants.
I mean they are *giant* spiders, they will probably eat humans or other large animals but a regular spider is not enough to eat you, most of them can’t even kill you
Here for the watch minutes before it gets yanked. I did enjoy being a young child watching my arachnophobic dad attempt to watch it because he could handle them if they were little ones, but boy he freaked out as they got bigger. I was a strange child.
@@adrammelechthewroth6511 hey now, he watched the whole thing, which for an arachnophobe, is a big deal imho. I don't have a fear like that so I can't relate but I commend him for sitting through the whole thing. He still will jokingly quote the "Eight legged freaks!!" thing when he's talking about spiders. Occasionally he's over reacted, but that's phobias for you. :P Will or not, monke brain is gonna make sure you don't die.
@@Crisjola but spiders cant get that big. Their skeleton cant support that weight and there isnt enough oxygen for them to grow that big. Spiders and other antropods are limited in growth of available oxygen so global warning does something right. Even if they were that big for some miracle then you could still take them out with a hammer or a gun as their bones are thinner then you would expect.
@@youtubestudiosucks978 I'm not arguing with you, Roanoke lays that all out himself as to why we no longer have giant centipedes that are 7+ feet long and other giant bugs. I'm saying if someone has an irrational fear of a thing, regardless of the actual logic, you're gonna have that fear and while as a child I thought it was funny, as an adult, I applaud my dad for sitting through it. And we 100% have a reason to have monke brain dislike skitter skitter. :P Evolution has taught us that tiny spiders can cause death/the loss of limbs (and then death) so just making them bigger is more to freak out that primal part of you brain because now it's a much bigger threat that our mammal and/or lizard brain is trained to react to. Like if a dog was snapping and snarling at you except instead of it being at hip height, it was the size of a school bus and snarling. Your body would be hitting flight mode even harder than with just a normal sized dog.
@@Crisjola spider only developed stronger poisons because they got smaller. Ancient giant spiders didnt have any poison so their prey had to suffer the whole ordeal. To gain a power you got to lose a power and those exoskeleton animals chose poison over size.
The sound effects are the only reason that I can even watch this movie. It keeps you laughing and entertained just enough to almost forget about how absolutely horrifying the situation is. Completely brilliant 👌
Both bold and wise. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." ~Sun Tsu "The Art of War"
At 24:45 I heard that background music and my neck hairs stood up! I knew I recognized it! I searched every eerie video game I have ever played from Left 4 Dead to Plague inc. and then it hit me... "GEARS OF WAR MAIN MENU!"
Great movie! I loved the scene with the Dirt Bikes, the cat scene always cracked me up even now at 25, and later in the caves when the main characters spray perfume in the black widows face. Always made me laugh. Also that the spiders seemed to have gain a little sentience and the ability to talk. Sometimes you can even hear them laugh in the film. Also holy shit! I forgot Scarlett Johansson was in this film. She's aged well. As always mate great video. Keep being rad my friend, stay safe out there, and thanks for the Merch will order a hoodie later. I hope you get those posters at some point. Your Halo:CE Cpl Mendoza quote had me dying.
You should do arachnophobia! Favorite movie of mine as a kid, and they use actual spiders for a lot of the film but their bite is incredibly potent and it would be interesting to see your take on what exactly is going on with the venom and their hunting habits / strategies
19:33 Early humans were actually around in the days where giant spiders existed. We did have to spear them. I think that's why giant spiders are such a common horror trope, an instinctive fear hearkening back to the real thing. I remember watching a documentary that proved this.
No we weren't. Larger spiders, maybe, but not the true giant spiders of the early stages of terrestrial life. Giant spiders existed and went extinct before trees evolved, much less humans.
@@skynyrdjesus Actually, no. Giant spiders never existed. Which I'm glad that I can say with a decent certainty. Like yes, there was a large spider like creature found in fossils, and shown off in a documentary, however since then they figured that was just a scorpion. We have no info on this, but the largest probably weren't bigger like then half a meter. Which is still too big, but phew. Also, early humans probably did have to deal with large spiders. As in 30-40 cms maybe even. We have tales of this. And I would say we stop brushing away these tales because "it's not evidence".
This was one of the few movies that I watched as a kid that really freaked me out. Kept me up for weeks being irrationally paranoid there is a giant spider under my bed waiting to suck my guts out.
Spiders have to molt when they grow. Thats usually what kills a spider before it gets so large that it can't breathe. Its much less about the amount of oxygen in the air and more to do with how healthy a spider is when it molts. If a spider grows too fast it won't have the energy or a proper diet. So they would literally just die even if the science behind the growth was sound. Also fun fact Jumping spiders and tarantulas are extremely intelligent and can sometimes recognize their owners
This is the exact reason why I want to own a proper flamethrower. Either that, or I could just rig my house to blow up like Switzerland was up until recently.
This is by far one of my most favorite movie. It sparked my interest for spiders as well really wanting a dirt bike. Need to get a hold of this film again.
This is the movie that actually got me interested in Jumping and Trapdoor spiders, Jumping spiders because the bike scene, and Trapdoor spiders because they looked like smooth tarantulas
I’m about the same age as Roanoke so I saw this movie when I was around 8 with my Dad and he decided to permanently traumatize me by when I went to the bathroom he had a streak of quick thinking and I guess had a giant fake spider from Halloween in the basement and thought it would be really funny to put it in front of the door to the bathroom so when I opened the door I got a big shock of a big spider! I screamed and he came out laughing his ass of and I cussed him out which he allowed even tho I was a kid cuz he knew he deserved it. Lol Father of the year!😅😊
YES! THANK YOU! Can't overstate how much I love this. Yours is one of few channels that makes me actually laugh out loud. If I may make a humble request, the Blood Dragons from Far Cry 3: BD might be fun to do.
My dad took me to see this at our local drive-in when it came out. . .so there I was, an arachnophobe watching gigantic spiders on a gigantic screen. . .my skin was crawling for almost the whole movie, but we still enjoyed the night.
I’m not gonna lie, I was just thinking to myself “Man I wish Roanoke covered 8 Legged Freaks, that was such a favorite of mine” and then saw this and absolutely went nuts. So glad he did lol, I’m gonna enjoy this, I may be late but still
This movie gives me such nostalgia. When I was a kid I used to catch spiders.. and crickets, and bees, and dragonflies, beetles, butterflies... with my bare hands. Bugs fascinated me. To this day I’ll never understand it. But I love this movie.
Thanks for covering this Roanoke. This probably caused a bit of discomfort, so I appreciate the effort. personally love spiders, but I get why people don't.
I love them too. But I phobias are a choice. Roanoke chooses to fear and hate spiders. I choose to give spiders proper respect and learn about them. Because I have NO phobias to hold me back.
First time I watched this was a few years ago with my partner. She likes spiders while I'm arachnophobic.... When the giant spiders showed up she was hiding under the blankets and couldn't watch while I was laughing at it
Spider: Dear Humanity We regret being 8 legged freaks. We regret being on earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! That reminds me of hear the quote of Johnson cool quote. Have good day everyone.
@@riot-0096 I assure you that I am just a humble human mammal. I enjoy the same activities as you such as thermoregulating and rearing live young. I even have lips that cover my specifically omnivorous teeth, that I have lost and regrown only a single time each.
Lmaooo i remember watching this at my grandparents after insisting it wouldn’t scare me and then trying to sleep in a pitch black room that my 5 year old self was convinced had giant spiders EVERYWHERE
Thanks for watching guys! Hope yall have a good weekend and odds are I will see you again with the same video in a couple of days because this whole site is on fire with copyright currently!
Awesome
Hello Roanoke Gaming.
Awesome hope for the best beat those copyrights good luck love the content
What a cult classic!!!
If u hate these giants, you must hate Kumonga
Finally someone understands that the punching scene is in fact the best
Its just so ridiculous lmfao
I really want to see this scene with like e.honda's 1000 hand slap sound on top of it
@@PhilieBlunt666 The spider from that one commercial where the dude went to squish it, because his girl was too chicken shit to do it herself, suplexes the dude and drags his ass off would like to have a word with you.
@@RoanokeGaming and thats why its the best in the movie. i loved it as a kid, Even though this movie is why i have an inate fear of the dark and the under of my bed.
@@EmoChipmonkVOD i actually saw this in theaters, my buddy had tickets to the like midnight prescreener so he came by my work and was like yo bring your girl and we did like a double date type thing to go see this. Definitely one of the better "free tickets" type movies ive ever gone to
"Get back, you eight legged freaks!" was actually an adlib that the director liked so much that he changed the name of the movie to it. One of the rare reverse title drops.
Fucking amazing
And you know what, it’s much more memorable
From what I remember, the title change was not because he liked the line, but because the Iraq War had just started, and "Arach Attack" suddenly sounded...unfortunate. That he liked the line was possibly why that phrase was ultimately made into the new title, but the change would happen regardless.
@@AnomalyINC that's interesting, the movie kept the original title at least here in Spain, guess it wouldnt make anyone here think about irak
@@AnomalyINC showing your age homie
The one thing I actually remember from this movie is the absolutely wild sound effects they use. The spiders scream and yell at the people, there's punching sound effects, it's honestly like watching the gremlins as spiders.
My favorite sound effect was the recycled Dino from The Flintstones noises when the car hits the spider. 8 year old me was DELIGHTED at this horror comedy for that reason alone
My favorite moment is when a jumping spider crashes into a diner, glomps on to a stuffed deer head taking a big bite, and then spitting in disgust when it realizes the head is dry.
That cat vs spider fight is awesome too. The whole film is just a great comedic romp.
I remember one spider chased the MC down a zipline while doing a Tarzan call.
I think there was one that got hit by a bat or a pipe ? It’s “ooowww” always makes me laugh
I love how the jumping spiders in this movie actually have voice lines that sound like gibberish, but are actual real words, just edited to sound incomprehensible
Don't forget the one spider holding on to the back of the police car yelling ow because it's "feet" where skidding along the road, which would hurt irl if this was to actually happen
I wonder if this means that with enough time they could learn to speak
@@lunathearcticwolf I haven't noticed that in my time watching this and I have seen this multiple times on tv
@@connorbestbarlow1043 it makes me remember the spiders in Rick and Morty
@@connorbestbarlow1043 where's Hagrid when we need him?
No one ever shows the part where one of the spiders does an evil laugh.
Indeed
There are a few things like this in the film. XD
Someone had fun.
I love part hahaha 😂
I loved the fact that the spiders "talked".
Or the spider getting dragged by the car exclaiming ouch after every bounce
This was literally my favorite movie in preschool, it's so cool that you covered it. It's also what sparked my interest in spiders, by kindergarten I could spell cephalothorax and identify random spiders around the house. My dumb teacher actually complained to my parents that I was reading too many non-fiction books. So yeah, I was basically that kid riding his bike to see some spiders. Now I'm 24 doing manual labor and drinking too much. Funny how that happens.
31, drinking WAAAY to much. . . And still go for drunk wanders to catch spiders lol
@@levirochloved this movie. And for me it depends on the species of spider. Always loved watching the little guys just do spider things.
Real. I feel you on that friend
uhhh, you just described my brother to a T, are you sure you’re not him? 😭
Tarantula breeder here! My mom -who also bred T’s-and I used to watch this when I was a kid before she passed away. We thought it was hysterical. Fun fact; the blue tarantula with pink toes who ‘stalks’ down that guy and bites him is an Avicularia species. It’s known for its relaxed attitude and relatively harmless bite. It’s often recommended as a beginner species. Thank you for covering this great movie even if you’re afraid of spiders! :)
@Chalcodes Henlo fren. Got any slings for sale?
They should have replaced it with a king baboon tarantula
That's genuinely super interesting and that's my whole catch 22 with spiders. I think they are necessary to the environment, and they are fascinating creatures. And I have some extreme in person archanaphobia.
Still super neat, than you for sharing!
Spiders are nothing when compared to PETA, just look at the monkeys they got moved out of a sanctuary to one of their freezers couple months ago.
@@ajobdunwell2585 what shenanigans have Peta been up to this time again? I haven’t heard about this.
The fact that the CGI looks actually good makes this whole movie a lot creepier than it actually is
What CGI those are real spiders
I know. I heard it was nominated for one of them Oscar thingies
Have you seen deep impact?
That movie came out 1998 and the CGI looks real af
I rewatched recently and was so happy how good it held up especially for a horror comedy! It is really one of my favorite "B films"
This film cgi especially the spiders still hold up
I think the dirt bike chase will always be my favorite scene from this movie. I was a little kid watching this movie originally (10 years old) wanting a dirt bike anyway, then there’s bad ass metal playing during the scene, and it’s just dudes being chased by giant jumping spiders on bikes. THE DUDE SUPERMANNED A GIANT SPIDER IN MID AIR ON HIS DIRT BIKE IN THE DESERT THAN CAUSES AN OIL TANKER TO FLIP AND EXPLODE KILLING A BUNCH OF THEM. Fucking awesome.
This movie is Gold for kids, or people who are really high.
That was my favorite part as a kid too, used to watch it over and over again.
The other spiders: *kills people like a regular spider would by biting their prey*
That one spider at 12:24 : "IMMA BEAT THE MF SHIT OUT OF YOU"
In an extended scene of like a few seconds, the reason the Spider beats him is because the dude punched the spider when it tried to attack, the spider got pissed, and just decided to return the favor xD
Man that spider chose violence
I think the spider was going for a boxing career.
Yes
@@zopler5537 I would feel bad for the bug
I remember this movie as a kid. And the one fps game they had on their website, just a quick download. Going through the mall and eliminating giant jumping, orb weaver and...well one big turantula. Awesome times
Bruh, this comment is sucking me back in time. This is peak nostalgia.
Are you talking about Earth Defense Force maybe?
What was the game called
Oh my god I thought that was a messed up dream I had. I knew I played a video game of it.
Yoooo I got hit with nostalgia
I work in a wearhouse in oklahoma, and we are over run by spiders. Some of them that I've had to enter pvp combat with for car parts have been damn near dollar bill sized, while we also have rats, snakes, and sometimes geckos shipped in from factories in parts boxes.
Aside from the geckos, that sounds like absolute hell
Thats how invasive species come
@@thegameranch5935good job you figured it out
Another impossibility in all this is that spiders in real life are incredibly cannibalistic, even mothers will often see their own young as easy snacks. Even if they were smarter like in this film they'd still be constantly eating each other as it's an abundant food source for them
The only exception being the stated communal species that the main antagonist is a member of. But yeah, the rest should have been devouring each other.
Even during mating session it is risky. A lot of males end up dead and even so if both strike each other and does not get any aide then their open circular system cannot close up their wounds and they both will die. The only few spiders that would survive are the trap door spiders and that made up species in the movie.
depends on the species, there are several that are communal and social like a few huntsman spiders that live in nests that can contain hundreds of spiders without cannibalism being an issue
@@krlosz1996 Yup. Cannibalism in spiders is seriously misunderstood. For starters, while common, it's not nearly as common as people believe. It's also wayyyy more subtle. Some spiders never cannibalise. Others will have males willingly kill themselves to give food to the females. Others again like the Brazillian wolfspiders will have males hunting older females to "renew" the population, which is pretty unique. All in all, cannibalism for spiders is an advantage for selection and reproduction, not a drawback.
"Leaving the Spider to be purged in flames, just as god intended them to."
*laughing in Heavy Flamer intensifies*
BURN IN HOLY FIRE!!
PURGE THE HERETICS BROTHER
“Childs! Mac wants the Flamethrower!”
*laughs in Flammenwerfer*
@RiverTheRandomOctoling
Meet the heavy pyro
I personally love this movie because it was filmed in a small town my aunt and uncle live in and one of my cousins was an extra and body double in the film. Makes it far more special to me
pov: you found the furry
This is a certified "Giant Enemy Spider" moment.
DOO DOO DIDIDIDLIDO DO DO DO DO DO
Haha Jerma985 nice
“Don’t try to avoid animals in the road”
unless it’s a moose or a bear because they will absolutely body your car and you.
Or a cow, or human
A deer will also ruin your commute, same for a armadillo or more commonly known as Texas speed bumps
A skunk is a special kind of case, it just makes you gag every time you want to drive if you did hit one.
And wombats for our friends down under
SAFELY avoid deer. Just don’t go straight on at them. True story from a friend of mine: he knew a guy who was driving at night with his wife outside the city. Deer jumps in front of them, and they gotta hit it. Deer goes through the windshield, but it doesn’t die, it just kicks like hell, stomping the guy’s wife to death.
The cat's face being imprinted into the wall, teeth and every detail being perfectly detailed, always cracked me up during that cat attack scene
This definitely brought back some memories. As a kid I was fascinated about spiders and thought this movie was awesome. Better yet, I actually had a substitute teacher who was one of the stuntwomen on this movie. Living in Arizona it was cool knowing it was filmed here and her showing us set photos.
Nice
Aww, lucky! I loved this movie as a boy, and watched it dozens of times.
WHOA, cool dude!
The spider beating the shit out of that guy always cracked me up too
That cat went out like a champ.
My cat runs from mice... Nevermind a dog sized spider.
Interesting side note: if spiders managed to grow to that size, they almost certainly wouldn't have the ability to crawl along walls and ceilings since the setae on their feet would never be able to support so much mass. We see this already in a lot of (normal-sized) tarantulas that have developed larger claws to aid in climbing. I know it's not much, but at least it would put the bastards back on a more 2-dimensional warfighting environment rather than 3D one.
The only good bug is a dead bug
Yea the white tails in my room tend to fall off the ceiling a lot once theyre full grown and white tails arent that big a spider
That and if they get too big theyll suffocate and be crushed under their own weight. The fact that most spiders aren't communal and would fight eachother makes it theoretically better for the humans, too.
@@validark *concerned screaming*
But they will be super fast. The wolf spider in particular would be instant in movement
The documentary about Australia's wildlife really freak me out
Australia started off as a penal colony...but I think it was nature's penal colony before then. Everything there is obscenely dangerous. I believe there's a sort of nettle plant that induces so much pain that people are hospitalized from touching it.
@TheBlue32 ah yes the Gimpy Gimpy plant also known as the Suicide plant. Also Australians are so badass they even eat the deadly plant
@@xenobeatsxeno8719 yet so Docile as not even to stand to tyranny??
I love the reference to Baird saying our brains are hardwired about things that skitter.
I just wanna say: GG in that cat attacking and fighting that GIANT SPIDER!! RIP Mr Whiskers. 😢
Kitty whoop ass and honestly, died in a more preferable manner, imo.
He hunts in Valhalla now
"As you can see here, this is another typical example of Feline stupidity. And over here, on exhibit B, you can see this pack of wolves making the smart choice and swallowing their pride by running away instead of risking their lives fighting THE GIANT ARACHNIDS."
Straight up would watch this movie every time it was on HBO, usually in the early morning before school. What a campy, terrible movie that will forever hold my heart
I still have the same DVD copy we had when I was a kid, that terrible paper case is in poor shape but oh do I love it.
This movie is so God damned good. The story is pretty solid tbh. The way the sequence of events happen honestly makes sense because they follow the rules set within thier own movie.
Like disappearing and bringing back characters with the mine, the way the phone line goes down and the subsequent fight to get the 1 cell phone in town some cell service.
Anyone who says it's bad isn't paying attention to the movie.
The perfume part was pulled off way better than evolutions head and shoulders idea.
*to be a boomer about it too, having 1 cell phone in a town like that back then is so goddamned realistic.
I like how the jumping spiders were shown stalking/chasing their prey. This is something our real life(and thankfully tiny sized) jumping spiders do…well the stalking part more so than the chasing part.
and their love for speed in the Movie was just cool as fuck
Jumping spiders are smart too. You can tell when they are determining their distance before they jump. They are able to see great which allows them to pick a good prey to hunt. Wolf spiders are almost the same, in NC you can find them to be as big as your hand but even then they try to avoid you.
@@giftedfox4748 they are also really curious
Honestly, I've got to hand it to them.
"I want to restart the *coal mine* in order to save my hometown" is definitely... A motivation that exists.
Art imitates life... life doesn't always know it.
If you use electricity you probably use coal. Coal still supplies 80% of Americas electricity. Solar is a joke and we all saw how badly the wind turbines failed in Texas. I'm so tired of people thinking that coal is bad. I use coal to power and heat my home like millions of other Americans. But if I say that on Facebook I get accused of wanting to switch back to whale oil.
@@Hank_Hill. 😐
@@Hank_Hill. Coal is bad... just everything else is too.
@@Hank_Hill. Where the fuck did you get the stat that coal supplies 80% of America's electricity
The EIA estimated that fossil fuels as a *whole* make up about 80% if America's electricity. Coal is the least common and least efficient sort of fossil fuel.
Coal has *significantly* more resources invested in it than nuclear power - When the fuck did you hear someone say they want to bring back nuclear power jobs - And yet it barely makes up a larger portion of our energy production.
Even ignoring the whole "Massively destructive to the enviornment and kills the people who harvest it" thing, coal is a shitty power source that should have been left behind years ago.
Man, I remember this movie. I was already arachnophobic due to reasons, and this movie didn't help. Terrified the heck out of me as a kid, but for some reason I would watch it everyday for several months. Was so terrified that the other kids in the house got mad at me
Did you grow up in an orphanage or something
When I was a child, my cousins and I used a hose as a "telephone" to play, until on one occasion a spider got into my mouth, specifically a Loxosceles laeta, one of the most dangerous species in my country, it was in my mouth just for an instant and luckily it didn't bite me but feeling its legs move in my mouth before I spit it out felt like an eternity, so the scene where something similar happens in the movie affected me more than it should when I saw the movie as a child, although now as an adult I could bear it almost without problems ... I am not hyperventilating, you are hyperventilating!
As a Gears of War fan, I’m happy to hear Baird’s quotes are still relevant to this day.
So good I should charge admission.
Or the gears of War 1 menu theme playing in the background
Baird was the GOAT
So when this movie was coming out, I was like seven or something. And I was losing my mind with anticipation I wanted to watch it in theaters the day it came out. I loved and still love spiders so much. The movie was set to come out on a Friday. I remember seeing a commercial where this guys spoke in a hyped up monster truck announcer type voice over some shots of the movie. He said "Eight Legged Freaks is coming out Wednesday, not Friday! Why?? Because they JUST CAN'T WAIT!!!"
I jumped up and started jumping around with excitement. I ran out into the living room and grabbed my mom saying "mom! Mom! It's coming out in two days! Why? BECAUSE THEY JUST CAN'T WAIT!!" I was ecstatic. I didn't know that was a thing. I had never heard of a movie having a release date and then just being like, nah we are going to come out sooner instead. It was very memorable.
I learned there's a species of spider that actually keeps frogs as pets! the frog will eat pests that could endanger the spider and their offspring, and the spider will make sure the frog is safe
nature, man- it's nuts
Sounds more like the frog keeps the spider as a pet
@@Khajiidaro not really the frogs are comically smaller than the spider. Considering the spider is a species of tarantula. It’s like if we had a t.Rex as a pet. Would it really be your pet or is it just deciding not to eat you?
It's amazing. It's much better than our shitty civilizations.
Wait really? Would those long legged spiders be one of them? I should have a picture somewhere of one of those spiders just chilling with a frog and I vividly remember thinking it was weird they'd act like homies (observed them for an hour and they went everywhere together)
@@TrashbashMan From what I remember it's a relationship between the two where the frog basically eats all the things that would eat the spiders eggs and the spider eats all the things that would eat the frog. It's super adorable. I don't know if its anything outside of specific species tho.
The very first book my parents ever gave me was called "Be Nice to Spiders." It was my very first lesson in ecology, and it prevented me from becoming arachnophobic.
@@isaacinkwell Why?
@@isaacinkwell Hey, bring me a copy. So I can use it to smush more spiders with it.
Although I have arachnophobia I don’t mind scorpions or some mites and I love jumping spiders and tarantulas however the spiders and other arachnids I don’t like are the thin long legged ones like daddy long legs or huntsman spiders
@@jameswest3847 fire is a better option
@@isaacinkwell happy b-day though
This movie honestly began my fascination with spiders particularly jumping spiders because of how intelligent they are and how some can be cute.
Jumping spiders present that rare and weird problem for the formula of how large something can be to remain cute and get cuddled, but be large enough to be creepy.
"peta might get onto me for this, but don't try to dodge animals on the road"
Oh yes, Peta would tell you to aim right for them, weaving through traffic and onto the sidewalk to hit a dog being walked by its owner.
To free the dog from the imprisonment of its human masters
@@AmericanAppleProd Dogs have been so domesticated that if they don't have a owner, they won't survive out in the world, as we see from strays getting into fights and getting really bad diseases that get them killed or worse. PETA takes dogs away from their owners and then waits 2 days tops before killing the dog in most cases.
@@KumaChrisVT if someone took my dog, it's John Wick time. If they kill my dog, then it's double John Wick time
Peta is involved with one dog death and y’all go crazy but sure lets ignore the 25 million animals slaughtered in agriculture every day
@@burgbass Might have more to do with the idea that Peta acts all holy about it that gets people mad. Pretty sure people get some animals that are saved are just unable to get fully saved and death might be a mercy.
Roanoke: Is scared of spiders
Me: "Haha! Weak!"
Roanoke: Motions towards a ladder with a sign that says "Climb me"
Me: Breaks into tears and pulls out the crucifix
What reference is that?
@@michaelharris8111 Fear of heights
You weakling
id say fear of heights is better than fear of spiders (unless you live in australia)
literally most spiders are harmless
you have to blame that arachnophobia on your ancestors
Considering how smart jumping spiders are at their current diminutive sizes, I wonder how sentient & friendly/hostile they would get if they are to evolve to such sizes with more neurons.
I had always thought of having a pet jumping spider to the size of a cat so I could have fun with its curiosity & pet its cute flat head.
You could also dress it up with cute hats! :D
I would highly recommend you check out the book Children of Time by Adrien Tchaikovsky. It is literally about a planet that gets terraformed and ends up inhabited by an evolved species of jumping spider. It is a fascinating read, especially if you like spiders
Jumping spiders are just adorable in general.
they are pretty cute
I'm inclined to agree, but also disagree, since they probably wouldn't play nice with other pets
It's also important to note that tarantulas, especially the terrestrials, are surprisingly fragile. If you drop one any higher than a foot, you risk rupturing their abdomen which would result in death.
Especially if they've eaten recently
Theyre like over ripe kiwis imo
Gotcha, so as expected the solution is direct, incredibly enthusiastic and overwhelming physical violence
Right! All these "killer spider" movies just treat them like fucking tanks when they're anything but. Bullets don't work, knives don't work, falling from a second story window does nothing, getting hit by cars does nothing, what in the world are these things made of? It'd be a lot scarier to see a spider acting naturally and using stealth rather than just walking through a nuke like any other typical monster movie creature.
@@DarthPyrusTheVirus yes funny to think that a giant black widow or Red Back would be vastly more deadly then a giant Tarantula just cause of how they hunt vs a tarantula hmm now i want a more accurate giant spider movie 🤔
@@erikbritz8095 that shit would be scary the huntsman spider would litteraly be chasing you down
23:20 is hysterical to me, because you have a jumping spider literally ushering other spiders to get into the mall in slower "go go go" sort of fashion. That said, the one thing you missed regarding the spiders moult is that... they simply grow way too fast and don't eat nearly enough to sustain them. The spiders wouldn't be out of their first moult before they start their next with that sort of exponential growth in the first few days, and so they'd all almost certainly die mid-moult as they get stuck in old exoskeletons and then wind up still trying to moult again. Moulting is also a process that takes a huge amount of energy on the part of spiders - certainly not enough for one single man to feed the sheer number of spiders we see.
Basically, even if there was theoretically enough oxygen to support spiders of this size, they would NEVER grow to that size in just a few days naturally, and any imbalance in their system causing them to grow faster than they can manage to moult would inevitably just kill them as they'd die mid-moult due to being unable to shed properly. Not even talking about the fact that many, many, many species of spiders are cannibals and even with higher intelligence, these eight legged dudes would probably just eat each other first. Maybe they'd just say "Sorry bro but I'm hungry" given the higher intelligence and be a bit polite about it.
It is possible since they are smart enough to work together, that they would simply help the moulting spiders remove the old exoskeletons.
@@CallMeKevan At that point just nuke Arizona and call it a day. Spiders helping other spiders grow larger safely frightens the hell out of me
I never noticed it doing that🤣
Also spiders are extremely vulnerable after a molt.
Spider be like. GO GO GO GET IN THERE AND GET THE FOOD!!!!
Hearing the gears of war mainmenu theme legit brought back SO MANY memories Thank you
many years later, I now know that the spdiers coming out of that' guys mouth at 21:08 are based on the common gold and black/zig-zag spider! A harmless garden spider with very limited ability to move around off its own web! Well, mostly harmless . If they did bite someone it'd be like a bad mosquito bite.
I think they're called orb weaver spiders. They grow pretty big, but, like you said, are harmless and keep mosquitoes and houseflies at bay. They're neat.
I think that was the type I saw a year ago in the bathroom
It was big
Ah yes, my favorite, the thiccc spider.
This is my favorite movie I love how the spiders even have a sense of humor.
Agreed I laughed so hard when a spider started giving hands to that one guy.
"They're here, they're here! Die you eight legged freaks!" Good ol David Arquette
As a kid with arachnophobia, this movie used to chill me to the bone. Hard. As a man who overcame his phobia, it cracks me up.
I got into spiders so I could get rid of my fear. It worked through years of therapy.
By the way, Roanoke Gaming, have you thought about reviewing the movie Arachnophobia? Oldie but a goldie.
got dam! this movie is damn near vintage.
We are old
@@RoanokeGaming but together we are young.... that's how it works right? 😆
Bro, this was my favorite movie as a kid!
I kinda liked it too lol
This literally gave me arachnophobia when I was a kid. I was the kid who'd play with spiders, then saw this movie, had nightmares, and... Well, I can't be in the same room I saw a spider in in the last few hours.
Ah' the early 2000's. What a great time to be traumatized as a small child by watching movies
this movie actually made me less afraid of spiders
for like a week, then i was terrified of them again
This movie didn't really scare me as a kid but yes I do miss being a small child during that time
When was Arachnophobia made?
@@ajobdunwell2585 before I was a small child
@@ajobdunwell2585 1990, When I was a child :(((
"Why would any kid want to see spiders?"
... I did when i was a kid^^' I was fascinated by them
I still love spiders, they are pretty important too.
right, I never kill a spider in the house unless it's very venomous. Instead I usually cheer them on and thank them for keeping the house free of flies and moths. Spiders are the real guardians of the house lol.
Same
was a fan of spiders, till i saw a documentary about venomous spiders as a kid and some that attacked humans as a kid.
@@ishitrealbad3039 ya I can see why people would be frightened by them. Something the size of a quarter can X your eyes is some sketch ass s**t
After watching this, it is my theory that the world from ‘The Ricks Must Be Crazy’ is actually one where the spiders in this movie weren’t destroyed and continues to develop themselves.
The spiders in the mouth always messed me up as a kid. I still almost die anytime I feel a small chunk of anything when I'm drinking. It's not often, but dying isn't fun 🤣
Little correction: While you are absolutely right with the fact that insects breath through their threachea, this is not the whole truth with spiders. They actually have small booklungs as well, which help them out with their breathing by supplying their hemolymph with some oxygen
A few species of spiders have both book lungs and tracheae, while "modern" spiders have just the trachea, and if I recall correctly some "archaic" species only have book lungs.
Spiders belonging to the orders of Mesothelae and Mygalomorphae (Segmented abdomen spiders like the Kimura Spider, tarantulas, trapdoor spiders) have Book lungs. Araneamorph spiders, what would be called True Spiders, do not have book lungs.
The book lungs are an evolutionary anachronism held from the transitional organism between eurypterids and whip tail scorpions which is what we currently Believe branched off into the 3 orders of spider we see today, given that we have fossils of Araneamorph spiders with spinnerettes and the whip tail structure.
I was looking for a comment mentioning the Boxlungs. Thank you kind stranger👍
Isn’t that the difference between „old world“ spiders and „new world“ spiders? Or something like that. Like a Huntsman vs. a Sydney Funnel Web Spider! Thin and fast vs. big and bulky! As well as slow :p But good in a Spider 1 vs 1. Just not at catching stuff… unless you use traps like the Sydney!
The first spider that attacked Joshua is Avicularia Avicularia aka the Pink Toe Tarantula. This tarantula is a super docile tree dweller from South America in and around the jungles of Columbia. They prefer to run and jump away, as they are super shy and heavily prefer to avoid any confrontation.
Most spiders and tarantulas are like this too. We do hear about spider bite reports. Especially from venomous species that can really make a very healthy man sick. This is rare, as they only bite if they feel cornered. Tarantulas especially will give warnings if they feel cornered by showing what is called a threat posture. Their body flexes in a L shape, the upper body and first 4 pairs of legs are raised in the air towards the perceived threat. You can see under them and their fangs.
The more defensive tarantulas from Africa and Asia take it one step further by slapping the ground. This it to intimidate to show how fast they are. It is rare they will bite first without warning but it is possible they will. All tarantulas can slap, and even will slap their owner. My Texas brown, one of the most docile slapped my hand when I was removing her water bowl for cleaning.
Still do not let this movie fool you into thinking spiders are bad and aggressive. They are defensive creatures and to them we're fricken giants.
I mean they are *giant* spiders, they will probably eat humans or other large animals but a regular spider is not enough to eat you, most of them can’t even kill you
I didn’t know they made a documentary on Australia a horror movie
you mean comedy?
@@doncoria9505 have you BEEN to australia?!
Here for the watch minutes before it gets yanked. I did enjoy being a young child watching my arachnophobic dad attempt to watch it because he could handle them if they were little ones, but boy he freaked out as they got bigger. I was a strange child.
Your dad was weak willed.
@@adrammelechthewroth6511 hey now, he watched the whole thing, which for an arachnophobe, is a big deal imho. I don't have a fear like that so I can't relate but I commend him for sitting through the whole thing.
He still will jokingly quote the "Eight legged freaks!!" thing when he's talking about spiders.
Occasionally he's over reacted, but that's phobias for you. :P Will or not, monke brain is gonna make sure you don't die.
@@Crisjola but spiders cant get that big. Their skeleton cant support that weight and there isnt enough oxygen for them to grow that big.
Spiders and other antropods are limited in growth of available oxygen so global warning does something right.
Even if they were that big for some miracle then you could still take them out with a hammer or a gun as their bones are thinner then you would expect.
@@youtubestudiosucks978 I'm not arguing with you, Roanoke lays that all out himself as to why we no longer have giant centipedes that are 7+ feet long and other giant bugs. I'm saying if someone has an irrational fear of a thing, regardless of the actual logic, you're gonna have that fear and while as a child I thought it was funny, as an adult, I applaud my dad for sitting through it.
And we 100% have a reason to have monke brain dislike skitter skitter. :P Evolution has taught us that tiny spiders can cause death/the loss of limbs (and then death) so just making them bigger is more to freak out that primal part of you brain because now it's a much bigger threat that our mammal and/or lizard brain is trained to react to. Like if a dog was snapping and snarling at you except instead of it being at hip height, it was the size of a school bus and snarling. Your body would be hitting flight mode even harder than with just a normal sized dog.
@@Crisjola spider only developed stronger poisons because they got smaller. Ancient giant spiders didnt have any poison so their prey had to suffer the whole ordeal.
To gain a power you got to lose a power and those exoskeleton animals chose poison over size.
The sound effects are the only reason that I can even watch this movie. It keeps you laughing and entertained just enough to almost forget about how absolutely horrifying the situation is. Completely brilliant 👌
Even though I have Arachophobia, I used to have a book about spiders. When my mom asked why I chose to traumatized myself, I said "No thy enemy"
Thats terrible for you lol
I mean, fair enough i suppose
No thy enemy?
Both bold and wise. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." ~Sun Tsu "The Art of War"
And then everyone clapped? 🤡🤡🤡
Imagine trying to sound cool in a YT comment section 😆😆😆
As always a super informative video on a cult classic! Thank you Roanoke 👍
Glad you enjoyed it bro!
@@RoanokeGaming could you do the aliens from edge of tomorrow they are rather interesting
At 24:45 I heard that background music and my neck hairs stood up! I knew I recognized it! I searched every eerie video game I have ever played from Left 4 Dead to Plague inc. and then it hit me...
"GEARS OF WAR MAIN MENU!"
Great movie! I loved the scene with the Dirt Bikes, the cat scene always cracked me up even now at 25, and later in the caves when the main characters spray perfume in the black widows face. Always made me laugh. Also that the spiders seemed to have gain a little sentience and the ability to talk. Sometimes you can even hear them laugh in the film. Also holy shit! I forgot Scarlett Johansson was in this film. She's aged well. As always mate great video. Keep being rad my friend, stay safe out there, and thanks for the Merch will order a hoodie later. I hope you get those posters at some point. Your Halo:CE Cpl Mendoza quote had me dying.
My dad tried to kill a spider with hairspray once. It didn’t work, so he said: “At least his hair is set.”
I love the various personalities on display. Each Archanid having their own little thing. It's cute to me.
I especially love the jumpers and tarantulas
@@xenobeatsxeno8719 Agreed.
I legitimately adore this movie. It's one of my go-to feel-better monster movies. I'm an AZ native so the setting gave me giggles.
This and Evolution are pretty good evidence that Arizona is a good setting for monster movies.
Oh shit is this the movie where The Other Guys got “aim for the bushes from”
Yeah or the whole "build it and they will come" quote from this movie
Who would think up such a horrific scenario?? I had nightmares for what felt like ever because of this movie. Lord why?!??
13:04 "As Leon and Chris-"
I thought I was watching a Resident Evil vid for a second, lol.
You should do arachnophobia! Favorite movie of mine as a kid, and they use actual spiders for a lot of the film but their bite is incredibly potent and it would be interesting to see your take on what exactly is going on with the venom and their hunting habits / strategies
No
Nonononononononono.......
Yes. Do it!
19:33 Early humans were actually around in the days where giant spiders existed. We did have to spear them. I think that's why giant spiders are such a common horror trope, an instinctive fear hearkening back to the real thing. I remember watching a documentary that proved this.
No we weren't. Larger spiders, maybe, but not the true giant spiders of the early stages of terrestrial life. Giant spiders existed and went extinct before trees evolved, much less humans.
@@skynyrdjesus I stand corrected then.
The giant insects went extinct before dinosaurs evolved
@@skynyrdjesus Actually, no. Giant spiders never existed. Which I'm glad that I can say with a decent certainty. Like yes, there was a large spider like creature found in fossils, and shown off in a documentary, however since then they figured that was just a scorpion. We have no info on this, but the largest probably weren't bigger like then half a meter. Which is still too big, but phew. Also, early humans probably did have to deal with large spiders. As in 30-40 cms maybe even. We have tales of this. And I would say we stop brushing away these tales because "it's not evidence".
Speaking of oversized arthropods, I'd be very interested to see you take a look at the 1997 movie "Mimic".
I second this it’s a fairly good movie with the creatures being rather terrifying in terms of threat
Agree “Mimic” both the movie and the creatures are so underrated.
Glad to see everyone remembers this movie from they're childhood
This was one of the few movies that I watched as a kid that really freaked me out. Kept me up for weeks being irrationally paranoid there is a giant spider under my bed waiting to suck my guts out.
As someone that actually respects and appreciates arachnids and most bugs this has always been one of my favorite movies
this movie was basically why I wanted to be an entomologist when I was a kid, so fucking cool
Spiders have to molt when they grow. Thats usually what kills a spider before it gets so large that it can't breathe. Its much less about the amount of oxygen in the air and more to do with how healthy a spider is when it molts. If a spider grows too fast it won't have the energy or a proper diet. So they would literally just die even if the science behind the growth was sound.
Also fun fact Jumping spiders and tarantulas are extremely intelligent and can sometimes recognize their owners
I loved this movie when I was younger. A great combination of comedy, spiders, and decent CGI.
Could you cover Evolution (2001) while we're at it?
This is the exact reason why I want to own a proper flamethrower. Either that, or I could just rig my house to blow up like Switzerland was up until recently.
This is by far one of my most favorite movie. It sparked my interest for spiders as well really wanting a dirt bike. Need to get a hold of this film again.
This is the movie that actually got me interested in Jumping and Trapdoor spiders, Jumping spiders because the bike scene, and Trapdoor spiders because they looked like smooth tarantulas
"And nopes the hell out of there!" Best line in the video.
I’m about the same age as Roanoke so I saw this movie when I was around 8 with my Dad and he decided to permanently traumatize me by when I went to the bathroom he had a streak of quick thinking and I guess had a giant fake spider from Halloween in the basement and thought it would be really funny to put it in front of the door to the bathroom so when I opened the door I got a big shock of a big spider! I screamed and he came out laughing his ass of and I cussed him out which he allowed even tho I was a kid cuz he knew he deserved it. Lol Father of the year!😅😊
YES! THANK YOU! Can't overstate how much I love this. Yours is one of few channels that makes me actually laugh out loud. If I may make a humble request, the Blood Dragons from Far Cry 3: BD might be fun to do.
12:24 what a GODTIER shitpost, holy fuck! I'm in tears!
My dad took me to see this at our local drive-in when it came out. . .so there I was, an arachnophobe watching gigantic spiders on a gigantic screen. . .my skin was crawling for almost the whole movie, but we still enjoyed the night.
I love 8-Legged Freaks. I think it's what fostered my love of Tarantulas and Spiders to this day lol
And sadly there was only 1 tarantula in the whole movie
Yeah no I'm completely the opposite
This movie, or the Ice Spiders or- Just the spider saga, is amazing. Will always be. Carried my childhood
Spider saga? I saw ice spiders
I’m not gonna lie, I was just thinking to myself “Man I wish Roanoke covered 8 Legged Freaks, that was such a favorite of mine” and then saw this and absolutely went nuts. So glad he did lol, I’m gonna enjoy this, I may be late but still
I love that the movie is called arac attack in Germany, the only time our title was better than the original.
Afaik all of the world except the US got that name because it sounded like Iraq-Attack
This movie gives me such nostalgia. When I was a kid I used to catch spiders.. and crickets, and bees, and dragonflies, beetles, butterflies... with my bare hands. Bugs fascinated me. To this day I’ll never understand it. But I love this movie.
Ah yes, the movie that started my Arachnophobia when i was a kid. Classic
Roanoke is so good. I had such a good laugh while also learning a bunch about spiders.
Thanks for covering this Roanoke. This probably caused a bit of discomfort, so I appreciate the effort. personally love spiders, but I get why people don't.
I love them too. But I phobias are a choice. Roanoke chooses to fear and hate spiders. I choose to give spiders proper respect and learn about them. Because I have NO phobias to hold me back.
This movie gave me such a distinct fear of trapdoor spiders, more than any other spider out there.
Still love to hear those gears of war ost’s in the background. I feel nostalgia for the game and the movie at the same time, it’s great
I loved this movie as a kid. I always found it funny, especially the little cartoon noises they added
That's the VA of nibbler doing the voices of the spiders
First time I watched this was a few years ago with my partner. She likes spiders while I'm arachnophobic.... When the giant spiders showed up she was hiding under the blankets and couldn't watch while I was laughing at it
Spider: Dear Humanity
We regret being 8 legged freaks. We regret being on earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
That reminds me of hear the quote of Johnson cool quote. Have good day everyone.
I’m an Australian, and this is a Tuesday! Seriously though, great work on this one. I always adore seeing a new video of yours in my notifications.
Are you sure that your not a reptilian, like an Australian saltwater crocodile?
@@riot-0096 I assure you that I am just a humble human mammal. I enjoy the same activities as you such as thermoregulating and rearing live young. I even have lips that cover my specifically omnivorous teeth, that I have lost and regrown only a single time each.
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😄 ok thats cool later
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Wait a minute
Lmaooo i remember watching this at my grandparents after insisting it wouldn’t scare me and then trying to sleep in a pitch black room that my 5 year old self was convinced had giant spiders EVERYWHERE
Can't wait to re-watch this when it gets re-uploaded haha.