`Spider' isn't about arachnids, but director still obsessed with them.

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: March 13, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Caro

CHICAGO _ Director David Cronenberg would like to stress that no actual spiders appear in his new movie "Spider."

"A lot of people have arachnophobia, and the mere word `spider' just terrifies them, actually paralyzes them, including one journalist I just talked to in Washington," the Canadian filmmaker said. "She almost couldn't see the movie because it was called `Spider.'"

Yet the assumption that Cronenberg might inflict nasty ...

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`Spider' isn't about arachnids, but director still obsessed with them.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) ; Byline: Mark Caro CHICAGO _ Director David Cronenberg would like to stress that no actual spiders appear in his new movie Spider. A lot of people have arachnophobia, and the mere word `spider' just terrifies them, actually paralyzes them, including one journalist I just ...