There seemed to be an interest in infectious diseases and dangerous insects at this time in the movies. I think there was a killer bee scare at the time. Anyway, some people in Venezuela are killed by a spider which then hitchhiker with the body returning to California. People start to die and Jeff Daniels has the job of figuring things out. When he realizes it's spiders, he is terrified, being an arachnophobe. Of course, there is no shortage of stupid people who get themselves killed because they think it's something else. An elderly doctor tries to get autopsies done on the bodies but there is resistance---until he, himself, is killed. The spiders have the ability, through breeding with other arachnids, to set off a plague. It's a pretty good story. Better than most. Jeff Daniels is good as the suffering investigator.
Review of Arachnophobia
