Tarantula

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Tarantula

Release Date: December 14, 1955

Year	:	1955
Slogan	:	«More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape!»
Genres	:	Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Production Companies	:	Universal International Pictures
Director	:	Jack Arnold
Producers	:	William Alland
Writers	:	Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley
RunTime	:	80 mins.

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.