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THE HERALD Wednesday Movie Review- Arachnophobia spins chilling web By DIAHANN Herald Special Even you like spiders and I counted myself among those peo ple will chill you to your toes And if you are scared of them to begin with well this film might just do you in A funny horror movie is by turns terrifying and laughable although the emphasis is more on fear than comedy Jeff Daniels plays Dr Ross Jen nlngs a Yale graduate who moves to a small California town to take Video cassettes family darlings OTTAWA The video cassette recorder offspring of the high tech age has become the darling of family entertainment And it s slowly strangling a progenitor the cinema A peek at family spending through much of the 1980s shows the startling growth in video technology caused a major shift in consumer preferences In the fight for leisuretime dollars the video recorder and film cassette are the winners The cinema is the big loser As the decade drew to a close Canadian families reported ding more money on VCR pur chases and tape rentals than movie theatres according to a Statistics Canada review of expen on culture By more than half of all households had a VCR Four years earlier only 12 per cent of homes had one of these machines The effect on the cinema has been dramatic From the late 1970s to the mid 80s family spending at movie houses plunged 28 per cent Even families who reported going out to movies cut their average spending by almost 20 per cent In New Brunswick family spending on videotape rentals in was more than double the expenditure on tickets to the movies The burst in home entertainment spending surprised some analysts at Statistics Canada but not a Carleton University film expert Prof Peter Harcourt who has observed the trend with a heavy heart We re all giving up cinema because it 74 bucks to see some crappy film badly projected Some screens aren t that big and your feet are stuck on somebody else s Coca Cola he commented Sticky pop on the soles of theatregoers will offend many but within the soul of the industry there are other problems Har court explained The old art of the cinema has really been killed by television he said Films are far less personal and more appear to be made for television Unlike the stylish old westerns the action and talking head films of today VIDEO PLUS West of Geo getown Mo tie BRING HOME A STAR NOW IN Hard To Kill Blaze Cheetah Happy Togolhar Everybody Wins riertd Friend From Hell IMi Tht Out Mora Hell St lint nil AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO lie FOB YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST S 8773388 look just as good on the small screen he added There s very little personal style any more There s not the same reason to go to the cinema Harcourt also noted the wide variety of films now available to video viewers and the improved quality and lower prices of home entertainment equipment And video gear has a technical ad vantage v ith its ability to fast forward or slow on screen action and to play back portions of films he said Young people especially like to see the good bits over again But if video is vanquishing the cinema it appears as yet to be of no challenge to the perform ing arts Over the same period spending on plays and live con certs jumped per cent Statistics Canada officials are cautious in their approach to the data drawn from their various cultural surveys However the conclusion that more families are spending more on the performing arts is inescapable hTh UN ST I I I 8771234 7J0O RT Mil I I I TRY KING PIZZA SUBMARINE 10MOUNTAINVIEWRD GEORGETOWN 87751778 PIZZAS DELIVERED WITHIN 30 MINUTES OR ITS IN TOWN ONLY FREE POP WITH PIZZA SLICE PICK UP ONLY Choose from our food Pzza Pizza Slcts Submarines Baked Hal an D shes Ch cken Dishes and Gf lied Foods ail tor your favoured taste SAVE 200 over a retiring doctor practice Unfortunately a killer spider from Venezuela has arrived at the same time and pretty soon some very suspicious deaths are taking place Jennings starts tracking the cause down but he is afflicted by severe arachnophobia which is not the kind of thing you want when deal with monster arachnids from some pnmeval valley On the way he is aided by the fearless I m bad Mc Clintock John Goodman the local exterminator and the coldly intelligent yet sexy Julian Sands a spider expert who was on the expedition that brought the culprit bug to the S in the first place Will our fearful doctor conquer the killers before they conquer him As the town death toll mounts you begin to wonder A satisfyingly scary climax left this reviewer on the edge of her seat is not as good as the other comedy terror movie from earlier this year Tremors The comedy isn t as obvious as funny John Goodman is meant to provide a lot of the laughs but he t seem to have enough screen time and despite his large presence appears a little subdued Jeff Daniels is very good though and he tolds the picture together well Harley Jane Kozak plays the down toearth wife and Mark Taylor is the unlucky photographer whose death leads to the invasion of the town The movie comes from Entertain ment Steven Spielberg s company He is the executive producer is a fun film and should be taken in the spirit intend ed go in prepared to be a little scared and you should enjoy yourself And the next time you see a spider heading down your wall you might just let your heart skip a beat Home of The Best Country Music For July LINDA BROWN July JENNY SI Brampton 6000 COUNTRY LANE SUMMER SPECIAL Try Our New Batting Cages Softball Hardball Country Lane Line River mi from 8772254 GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 CINEMA LAST WEEK HARD2 DIEHARDER rjkHMgi Evenings at 7 1 5 Dally Matlnes at 2 00 m CINEMA 2 NOW PLAYING Evenings at 7 9 1 p 3rd GREAT CLASSIC Jungle FAMILY Daily Matinee at 2 p m CINEMA 3 LAST 2 DAYS THE HIGHSPIRITED NEW COMEDY I Evenings at7 Dally at p PASSWORD This Weak Is THURSDAYS IM A FRESHMAN COMING FRIDAY THE FRESHMAN