Horror season is officially here, and monsters are lurking around all corners of streaming platforms. From the eerie shadow lurking beneath the surface in Jaws to the monstrous werewolf of An American Werewolf in London, creature features deliver some of the most thrilling scares and are top picks for horror movie marathons every October. Horror fans looking for another chilling scare can add another title to the list after an underrated monster movie crawled to a new streaming home just in time for Halloween.
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If you’re terrified of creepy crawlies, particularly spiders, then you may want to pass on Arachnophobia on Tubi. Frank Marshall’s 1990 creature feature starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman started streaming on Fox’s free streaming service on October 1st. Despite being tagged as a horror comedy, Arachnophobia isn’t for the faint of heart. The movie centers around a rural California town invaded by a deadly spider species, leaving the town’s residents, including arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings and exterminator Delbert McClintock, to fight the infestation before it’s too late.
Arachnophobia Is Easily one Of The Best Monsters Movies of the 1990s
Arachnophobia works incredibly well as a monster movie because, unlike far-off monsters like the Xenomorph from Alien or the giant ape in King Kong, the movie heightens a common, grounded fear of creepy crawlies lurking out of sight in the everyday, safe setting of a family home. In Arachnophobia, spiders lurk in all of the place you’d expect – inside a slipper, the shower, on a bedroom wall – meaning no place is safe. Regardless of how wild Arachnophobia gets and how bizarre and memorable the kills become, the movie succeeds in creating genuine fear and making the familiar feel unsafe and will have even the bravest of viewers checking over their shoulders for those eight-legged critters.
Arachnophobia isn’t just pure scare, though. The movie effectively balances that primal fear and scenes that make your skin crawl with a humorous edge. From the absurdist and realistic reactions of the characters to the spider infestation to the witty dialogue, Arachnophobia is the perfect kind of scary, the type of movie that will make you squirm in your seat and laugh out loud at the same time.
Other Horror Movies Now on Tubi
Movie lovers looking for a scare this Halloween season definitely need to check out Tubi. Every month, the streamer adds dozens of new streaming options to its content catalog, and October brought a massive lineup of horror titles for fans of just about every subgenre. Viewers specifically looking for more creature features can stream vampire movies like 30 Days Of Night and its sequel 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days or even the iconic werewolf film An American Werewolf In London. Titles like The Grudge, The Omen, and The Ring are perfect viewing options for those looking for supernatural horror. Other titles now streaming include Dark Harvest, The Hills Have Eyes, and Jennifer’s Body.
Tubi is scheduled to roll out even more horror titles throughout the month. Eraserhead is set to hit the platform on October 6th, followed by Sting on October 11th, Don’t Breathe on October 15th, and Don’t Turn Out The Lights on October 25th.
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