Tarantula - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Tarantula or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Tarantula

[scarlett]

Second uncredited theatrical movie of Clint Eastwood (Jet Squadron Leader). His first being Revenge of the Creature (1955).

[duane]

The tarantula was an actual live spider. Air jets were used to make it move in the desired way over a miniature landscape.

[ruby]

Mara Corday (Stephanie "Steve" Clayton) was the lead female in this movie, with Clint Eastwood appearing briefly at the end as Jet Squadron Leader, her last four movies, Clint Eastwood was the star and she had small brief roles.

[kenzi]

Professor Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll) predicted that by the year 2000, the human population will be 3.6 billion. In fact it was almost double that at that time.

[janice]

Leo G. Carroll and this movie's title, "Tarantula", were mentioned in the song "Science Fiction Double Feature" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

[elmer]

The spider that portrayed the giant tarantula later appeared in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) as the spider threatening the shrinking man.

[jesse]

If you look carefully at the stained glass windows in the funeral parlor, you can see that at least one of them was used in the hallway of the Bates house in Psycho (1960) and its sequels. The "Psycho" franchise were made at Universal Studios.

[ivan]

The first of four movies in which Clint Eastwood played a pilot, the others being "Escapade in Japan", "Lafayette Escadrille" and Firefox (1982).