タランチュラ
あらすじ
タランチュラ (1955) この古典的なSFスリラーでは、天才的だが偏屈な科学者であるディーマー博士が、砂漠の研究所で秘密実験を行っています。彼の最新の作品は、成長と発達を加速させる血清であり、先端巨大症の治療につながることを期待しています。 しかし、事態は暗転し、ディーマーの研究所助手であるジェニーが、わずか4日で発症した先端巨大症の加速症例で突然死亡します。町の医者であるグロスマンは、この前例のない出来事に衝撃を受け、ディーマーの真の意図について疑念を抱きます。 捜査が進むにつれて、ディーマーが血清の効果をテストするために、自分自身で実験を行っていたことが明らかになります。彼の体は急速に変化し始め、手は日に日に大きく、グロテスクになっていきます。町の人々は、ディーマーの変貌にぞっとし、それはまるでタランチュラの成長を彷彿とさせます。 事態が制御不能になるにつれて、グロスマンはディーマーが完全に認識できなくなり、人間の面影をすべて失う前に阻止するために、必死の競争を繰り広げます。町の安全が瀬戸際に立たされている中、グロスマンは自分の恐怖と疑念に立ち向かい、怪物のような生き物が町に大混乱をもたらすのを防がなければなりません。 タランチュラは、科学の暴走、強迫観念、傲慢さ、そして神を演じることの危険性をテーマにした、心を掴む物語です。映画の不気味な雰囲気と、示唆に富んだ前提は、今日に至るまで観客を魅了し続けるSFホラーの古典作品としての地位を確立しています。
レビュー
Greyson
The monster is created by humans, and ultimately killed by humans. What did the spider do wrong?! Seeing Clint Eastwood running bit parts back then, involved in many monster movies~ Although he only showed his eyes at the end, he was still very handsome!
Dylan
Looks like Arnold loved spiders.
Jeremiah
Too sleepy to catch the midnight showing, but there's always the morning matinee. Absolutely loving these cheesy B-movies from the 50s… full of guilty pleasures!
Scarlett
The special effects in old movies are just fantastic. When I dream about being chased by monsters, it always has that hazy, dark, and blurry tone. And the female lead's costumes are so eye-catching! Before the spider even appeared, I was constantly checking out the characters' clothing, the architecture, and the props. That's one of the great things about watching black and white movies. It's like how a blind person's hearing becomes more acute. By removing color, the age, fabric, thickness, and function of things... somehow become clearer. (Thinking about it this way, black and white movies must be the most difficult to make, since you can't rely on the beauty of nature to enhance the film. So those groundbreaking classics must have come from flashes of inspiration...)
Mia
I remember this movie played on local TV. I stumbled upon it once during a holiday meal. The plot revolves around a scientist developing a drug that can make animals grow rapidly. As a result, the scientist's friend injects the drug, and his face becomes abnormally deformed and twisted. The enraged, deformed man tries to kill the scientist but accidentally shatters a glass container, causing a giant tarantula to escape from the laboratory. A town doctor is suspicious of the deformed man's death, and a female assistant from out of town, who has come to assist the scientist, gradually uncovers the scientist's secret. The carcasses of cattle and horses, eaten clean, and the scattered white, poisonous slime all over the ground, lead the doctor to suspect... (*Tarantula!*)
