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”Scary” animal scenes that becomes less scary the more you actually know of animals
In Dr No James Bond’s enemies tries to kill him by releasing a spider into his room. That spider is a Tarantula one of the more calmer Spiders species whose bite is not much worse than a bee sting. Also spiders in general don’t deliberately bite humans. I find this example particularly unintentionally funny because if you have no knowledge of spiders this scene is a scary assassin attempt but if you do it comes across more like Bond’s enemies were pranking him.
In the movie “Holes” supposedly dangerous “yellow spotted” lizards are played by bearded dragons that IRL are non-venomous and unable to seriously harm humans with their bite and are know to be pretty calm and docile.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark with the ironic exception of the cobra used in this shot most of the supposed dangerous snakes in this scene are either non-venomous snakes or legless lizards.
The other funny thing about the spider assassin is that after being released into his room, it dutifully goes straight to Bond, rather than scuttling into a cupboard or finding somewhere to shelter as a normal spider would.
Humans generally don’t interest spiders, unless they corner them or piss them off.
The whole "planting a dangerous animal in a room to kill someone" trope doesn't really work with venomous creatures. Most of them use venom for defense and would likely try to hide somewhere in the room first, rather than attacking a human. Sending in bunch of hornets, a hippo, a honey badger, or other such "nature's assholes" would be a far more realistic assassination attempt.
The master assasin, expert in the ways of shadows, releases an adult male hippo in a 4x4 room... in new york...in the fifth floor, in what was supposed to be a "make it seem like an accident" job
I mean this genuinely when I say I would love to see the forensics work involved in pinning an adult male hippo to an assassin. It might not look like an accident, but I highly doubt he's getting caught if he could smuggle that beast to the fifth floor.
Imagine Bond waking up in the arms of yet another supermodel, only to find an enraged hippo in their five-star suite and being forced to battle it using a floor lamp, chairs, and a martini bottle. That is something I would definitely watch—and it’s no more unrealistic than an attacking tarantula.
Can he have some weird gimmicky communication gadget going off the whole time so he has to answer it without the supermodel knowing, and then hold the whole double conversation without MI6 realizing he’s fighting a hippo?
On the subject of 'pranking' people with tarantulas, it always makes me sad because they're pretty fragile creatures and can be injured badly if the recipient of the prank flips out and throws the spider, which they often do.
Or gross-out reality shows where they have to eat a live tarantula, things like that.
They get such a bad rep, but my friend had a chilean rose which loved to curl up in the middle of people's hands because to them, we're lovely and warm.
Kingdom of the Spiders was the worst tarantula movie I ever saw. They got 5,000 tarantulas for that movie and a ton of them were killed. I remember one scene where they just drive over a bunch of them with a car and it was horrifying because I knew it was real. The movie is a bad horror movie but the blatant animal cruelty was awful.
Then after the movie, they just let the rest go into the wild, and there were so many of them it apparently was noticable for a good bit after that. They were everywhere.
In the original Friday the 13th film there's a scene where the characters kill a snake. The scene was shot for real with an actor killing a scene with a knife.
The snake owner wasn't told that they were actually going to kill his snake and he had to be stopped because as soon as the snake was killed, he ran on set to try and attack both the actor who did it and the director (which would be fair enough, especially to the director)
I was watching the new fear factor house show and levied this issue to my mom. You've got spiders, rats, and snakes all being used in such harmful manners. I said I can't see the people that bring these animals on shows like these to be actual animal lovers because they're endangering their animals. The snakes didn't ask to be trampled on. The rats don't want to be put in a confined space with a human speeding past them on all fours with dead relatives hanging from their mouths. Shits fucked up.
At some point iirc contestants have to crawl through these square acrylic paths with dead rats in their mouths held by their tails. While stepping over snakes and possibly alive rats? Just terrorizing the live animals who are trying to run up the walls to escape/avoid being trampled
The Friday movies were almost all complete nightmare productions.
Animal cruelty, forcibly drugging actors, dangerous stunts, rampant sexual harassment in several different ways, and they even filmed a topless scene with an underage girl.
I do vaguely remember that a couple of the movies had good productions apparently but it's a rabbit hole I don't want to dive back into any time soon.
Apparently in Part 3, they were actively snorting lines of coke and firing guns at animals because the director was just a loose cannon. At least Part 6's director was a lot better and had a much friendlier and professional environment, favorite Friday of mine for a reason.
As far as I'm aware, no one has been arrested for anything that happend during the production of one of these movies.
I think some people involved in the movies had stint in jail at some point for other crimes, but I don't remember hearing about anyone working on these movies being fired.
If someone more knowledgeable on the subject could correct me on this, please do and I'll amend this comment.
A disturbing amount of people become blind to animal abuse when the animal in question doesn't have puppy eyes and a cute nose and toe beans. Spiders are just as alive as any other creature but it's deemed alright to massacre them because they're a little icky.
I'm not even a big animal rights guy or a vegan or anything, I just hate how often you see people cheer on the killing of bugs, even when they're harmless or even healthy for the ecosystem.
I remember years ago reading a story online from someone that worked as a zoo educator. They had a millipede in their hand that they were showing to guests publicly and some kid freaked out, knocked it out of their hand, and proceeded to stomp it to death. The educator was devastated, and as someone in the same line of work, I completely understand. I would feel horrible if something like that happened to any of the animals under my care, regardless of the species.
I'm still mad that the guy who fed a wild fish laxatives and glued it's anus shut got away with it. He excused it by saying they were an invasive species- okay? They don't know that. They aren't some evil monster plotting to hurt people. They're animals trying to survive. Can you imagine if he did this to a dog, a cat? Internet would have doxxed and swatted him. But it's a fish, so it's fine.
You definitely don't have to be a vegan or animal rights advocate to be uncomfortable with how we treat things. I'll always be on the side of, at the very least, a humane death.
What the actual fuck?! Just because it's invasive doesn't make it okay to torture it for no reason! I understand the importance of removing invasive species before they can cause significant harm, but there are quicker, less painful ways to kill an animal. This guy is just a psychopath, end of story.
Which makes it nice to know that in Home Alone there was particular care taken to not scare it IIRC, Marv's actor did a silent scream when he had the tarantula on his face and the audio was recorded in post.
That's an awesome TIL. It always crosses my mind how the tarantula remains chill during the shouting when doing the mandatory Christmas rewatch if the movie, but now I finally know the why
Yeah I went to animal training school and I remember being very careful not to drop madagascar hissing cockroaches and then with the tarantulas we'd be even more careful.
Or is just fucking arachnophobic. I'd freak out badly enough with a common house spider, but if someone sneaks a whole bloody tarantula up on me, that person is out of my life by the next nanosecond. I know they're generally docile and whatnot. They're still yuge fucking spiders with way too many legs and eyesand... yeaurgh
I save my tarantula molts, and my mom really doesn't like it when I forget to put then away and leave them hanging out ontop of their enclosure lol she cares for them when I go on long back country trips and she thinks the spider escaped at first. So I guess unintentionally prank people with tarantula molts if you want to.
When I was on deployment one of the dudes on my fire team racked out, was like fully snoring and everything. One of the other dudes threw a dead scorpion on him. That was pretty hilarious to see even though I don't really like pranks like that.
Fear Factor was the worst when it came to animal cruelty. And the cruelty was part of the point. They’d even play up the cruelty sometimes. I still remember a challenge that traumatized me as a kid where they had to eat sheep eyes. They set up the room so there was a sheep with an eyepatch standing right next to the contestants, implying that the eyes came from living sheep (removed from the fact you realize that’s probably not true, but that’s what they wanted you to think happened), to get a stronger reaction from the contestants and audience.
I watched Holes before being a Bearded Dragon owner and I am so glad I did. I know I would not have been able to take them seriously when I've caught my Bearded Dragon wearing her food as a hat.
Yes! And they're always played by female rats because no one wants to look at a humongous, distracting nutsack. (I mean, head on over to /r/RATS and you'll find lots of us weirdos who think they are hilarious and adorable)
Every time I see something in a movie or show that portrays "disgusting" or "scary" rats, it's the cutest little curious rat you've ever seen
Bonus points when the scary "wild" rats are very obviously a fancy breed with a coat that would never occur without years of selective breeding.
I watched a 70s horror movie this weekend and in a scene that's supposed to be scary and disturbing the camera flashes to a pair of naked women holding some plump and adorable hooded rats (white bodies, black heads).
I admittedly haven't owned rats in probably about 15 years, but the first half of my life I was known as the weirdo at school who had pet rats and snuck them to school sometimes in my sweatshirt, so those are my credentials.
Rats are the best pets I have ever had, without a doubt, but they do require a lot of attention and care and maintenance, and a ton of cleaning. They were all my best friends, I loved training them and bringing them to fun places with exciting new smells, and changing people's perceptions of the species by showing people how chill and friendly and sweet they are. And smart! So unbelievably smart!
The short life span was the big reason I stopped having them in my life. I just couldn't take it anymore, losing my little heart buddies every 2-3 years. I can still feel the little warm ball of pressure on my chest sometimes when I lay down and remember all those years of reading in the summer with a little rat or two curled up on my lap or my chest. They really are such a special type of pet.
Aren't the snakes in raiders of the Lost Ark more of a phobia for Indi? While not being dangerous, being in a pit full of snakes would be terrifying to anyone let alone someone with ophidiophobia
Thanks Wayne Industries. Great product. Huh...you know it's crazy they invented this right after Batman used something similar. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Also the shark the story that jaws was loosely based off was about a bull shark not a great white. Bull sharks are one of the few species that will kinda chomp on whatever’s around. When they autopsy a bull shark they’ll find like street signs and random crap in their stomach. But obviously even bull sharks aren’t gunna ram a boat
At one bit Phibes lowers a cage into the room of one of his victims, the guy is woken by strange noises and flapping. He looks and sees gasp Fruit Bats!
Seriously though, fruit bats? They’re the most adorable type of bat in the world and like all but vampire bats, only bite if they feel threatened and are shy little rascals. The only real danger they have is the diseases they can carry.
We even get closeups of their ridiculous little faces as they threateningly lick, oh the horror!
More than 1% of surveilled wild bats in the US are carrying rabies, and a bat landing on you is abnormal behavior, and bats tested because of abnormal behavior run like 5-10%.
Bats are cute but if a wild bat landed on me I'd be furious because rabies shots suck and I'm going straight to my doctor.
The danger isn't the bat, it's the potential rabies! Even a tiny, imperceptible bite is enough to pass it on. Although at this point he might as well cuddle the heck out of them, since he'll probably have to get his rabies exposure shots anyway after being in such close proximity.
The part where he boils up sprouts to paint on the nurse, so that locusts will eat her face is also a good example.
And in the sequel its even more convoluted.
when he makes a clockwork snake, to fool a manservant into picking up a real snake with clockwork taped to it.(non poisonous) so he will be bitten, call the ambulance. Which will set off a booby trapped phone to fire a snake shaped dart into his ear.
They're smaller than you think and they are very much afraid of humans. If you see one you can yell at it and it'll run away. The only time you might be in danger is if you're wandering the desert alone and they are very hungry and desperate.
I remember a Mr. Beast video where for every snake you let get put into the same bathtub as you you would get 1k. I was so fucking mad when the snake handler brought out fuckinh BALL PYTHONS. They fuckkng PUPPIES of snakes! They were so adorable and I would have gotten so many put in with me!
I got struck by a ball python once. Though it was my fault, I was holding the mouse with my hand and the snake missed. Barely caught my hand and drew a bit of blood.
I assume thats as close to aggression id ever get from that snake.
That probably was the point though, they look scary for the general audience, maybe for the participant, but the production doesn't have to worry about amyone actually getting poisoned or killed
There is a B movie called Kiss of the Tarantula, about a morticians daughter with a basement full of pet tarantulas because she just loves them so much. At one point, she gets back at some of her bullies by sneaking a bunch of them in to their car while at a drive-in, resulting in all four of them dying.
The twist is… none of them are depicted as being killed or even bitten by the tarantulas. Instead they all freak the fuck out, and in their panic die in a chain of events that would strain credulity for a Final Destination film.
I *know* the big, hand-sized spiders that live in my woodpile are harmless. I've seen them eyeball me and scamper off on their own. I still freak the fuck out every time I go to pick up wood, and have one of those fuckers go racing up my arm.
This happens in the movie Giant Spider Invasion, until the "giant" spider shows up, it's an invasion of regular sized spiders that are making people just freak out and crash their cars.
Fun fact, connery was so not into the tarantula, that shot your seeing is actually the spider on a clear pane of glass between it and connery. It never touched him.
I think a lot of people in this thread do not understand acting. Nobody complains when a ballet school graduate who can't even sling webs plays Spiderman but a tarantula wants to play an international spider assassin and that's when suspension of disbelief kicks in? He is a thespian and he should be respected!
Most cinema don't even bother naming the animal actor!! It's terrible. For the longest time I had no idea Sr. Vyper Snakesworth starred in Indiana Jones.
Having a dobermann, I can't take them seriously in any scene they appear in.
They are pretty much always looking at their handler rather than what they are supposed to be facing, and on the rare occasion they seem threatening all I'm thinking is "poor dog is scared."
Contrary to their portrayal in a lot of media, piranhas won't rip you to shreds the minute you enter waters infested with them. They only go into feeding frenzies under extreme starvation and generally tend to avoid humans.
That's something a lot of people don't really consider when thinking about animal behavior. Predators aren't usually aggressive, and prey animals aren't always safe. When any injury can kill you, you tend to only attack when you're either desperate, deranged, or certain you'll win
The Maine Coon is the largest breed of cat, but they're still only as intimidating as a tiny kitten. All of Church's "actors" could never be made to look mean and always were trying to cuddle and nuzzle up to the cast, and they were especially affectionate towards Jason Clarke/the main character, who's clearly often struggling not to outright laugh at the feline teddy bears "menacing" him. It was so bad they had to use a CGI eldritch horror for some of the more intense scenes!
Also as a snake enthusiast, I feel compelled to mention don't use the 'red-touch-yellow-dead-fellow'/'red-touch-black-ok-jack' rhyme scheme to determine if a species of snake is safe.
If you don't know what kind of snake it is, don't go near. There's species of snakes that buck the color trend that can be potentially medically significant.
At least two thirds of the time they show dogs acting "scary" in a movie they've dubbed in some aggressive barking and growling over a dog that is happily following commands. You can see in their body language that they expect a treat any second now. The camera will move a lot and they'll do quick cuts to help conceal the wagging tails.
Not that dogs can't be a threat to human life, but the one's you see on screen are sweet, complaint animals.
I heard it was challenging making “Cujo” because the dog actor was too friendly especially when a the kid actor was suppose to scream in terror because the dog would try to comfort him.
More people should read the book - iirc Cujo has a POV that shows he's just as confused and scared about what's happening to his mind and body as everyone else. It's very sad.
My aunt and uncle had a St. Bernard, and she was without a doubt the sweetest dog I've ever seen in my life. It was funny, because she was strong as hell and would move furniture and ripped a hole in a chain link fence, but with people and other animals she was gentle as can be.
There's a great scene in Moonraker where a bad guy sets two 'vicious' dogs on one of the ladies. She runs away, pursued by two snarling, baying HOUNDS OF HELL! Both of which are happily wagging their tails, and have their tounges lolling out as they chase her.
Any film where the characters are 'attacked' by rats. Like there was this Italian horror film, I forgot the name but someone was being attacked by rats in a lake and all of the actual rat shots just showed them casually hanging out or happily walking on the actor that they were supposedly mauling.
I have pet rats and "vicious", "dangerous" wild rats in movie and TV always crack me up, because they're invariably glossy coated fancy rats, usually with purpose bred markings, always girls because male rats have enormous bölls, and always looking so happy and attentive because they're doing their trick and about to get their treat.
There's a short clip of Harrison Ford backstage during the filming of the Last Crusade sequence with the mounds of rats, snuggling one of the rats and talking to her.
That's kind of the point of the movie though, you don't even need to be a bird expert to know birds don't care about you mostly, so it's suddenly scary that they've gotten all aggro.
As someone living in a city with a lot of aggressive crows during the Spring-Summer, they're a bit scary at least. Personally had one divebomb me and claw into my head (broke flesh, though not that deep) while I was just walking down a sidewalk a couple years back.
Any scene with dogs, or cats does this for me. The protagonists are always like “oh no this dog is dangerous and scary, but if you look closely at the animal they’re showing no signs of stress at all and they’re seemingly having a really good time actually.
This doesn’t exactly fit the trope either but the babies in the walking dead always seem to be having a great time too.
I have such feeling about movies/TV where a "wolf" is "attacking" someone, and it's a purebred GSD or husky looking mild AF, and they just put a fake growl in the audio.
In a lot of those scenes with dogs, they actually have to edit the tail in post because the dogs won't stop wagging them, they are just having the time of their life on set.
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Jurassic Park - The dinosaurs are much less threatening when you realize they’ve actually been extinct for quite some time
(sorry, I do want to come up with a real example but it’s really late)
People overstate that. Velociraptors were still the size of a medium sized dog with massive claws and the ability to jump extremely well and fall from heights with little to no damage. They probably wouldn't try to attack you but if they did they could absolutely do some serious damage
Fucking thank you. Velociraptors are still predators and more comparable in niche to small canines like jackals and coyotes. Like you said yeah, if you meet one IRL they probably wouldn’t try to hunt you down in the same sense that you can easily scare away coyotes as long as you stand up straight and make yourself firm.
People gotta stop this whole “dinosaurs are giant chickens!” spiel because it’s just as misinformed and untrue as the big scaly monster depictions, but on the opposite extreme.
There's been kind of a rennaissance of dinosaurs recently with Prehistoric Planet coming out which has led to more people seeing dinosaurs as animals, not monsters, which is good obviously but many of those people then forget that animals, while not actively malicious, are still fckn dangerous
Which is missing the point of the documentary completely because the entire scene involving Velociraptors show them as adept hunters performing cliffside parkour to hunt nesting pterosaurs…
Just because bears look fat and cute doesn’t remove the fact that bears are BEARS.
I think they were supposed to be deinonychus since utahraptors were discovered during filming well after the books were published. The author just thought velociraptors sounded cooler, which he’s right.
If I recall correctly, they had to do several takes and tie down the tail(?) of the titular dog in the horror movie Cujo, because the dog actor wouldn’t stop wagging his tail during shooting.
This is a common problem with dog actors. They can't act. You can train them, but they're still gonna be a dog. I always watch for the actual dog behavior when I see a vicious dog in a movie.
For this reason, I loved hearing the director of Good Boy talk about making the movie with just his one dog. There's a scene (non spoiler) where the titular good boy gets really stressed when the owner leaves the house, staring out the screen door and whining. BTS magic to get the reaction was the owner pretending to play catch with an imaginary dog in the front yard 😭😂
In fairness the point of the snakes in Indiana Jones isn't so much how dangerous the snakes are, but rather how deathly afraid he is of them. He's being forced to face a traumatic phobia, and that wouldn't change even if every single snake there was harmless.
But! They are implied to be put there to protect whatever grave or pit he stumbles upon, so the original architects would still have chosen harmless snakes as protection
Similar to the Dr No example, there's a 'Hound of the Baskervilles' where Christopher Lee as the young heir is inexplicably menaced by a tarantula. I guess it kinda makes sense that Stapleton brought it back from South America - but as you say, they aren't particularly venomous.
There’s a terrible horror movie named Hollow Gate where the owner of a compound killing teens releases a bunch of dogs to kill them. But the dogs aren’t Malinois or German Shepherds or any vicious breed, but several adorable golden retrievers lmao
If I wanted to strike fear into my enemies with ferocious dogs, I genuinely can't think of a worse breed to do that than Golden Retrievers. Even covered with prop blood and body parts I would want nothing more than to tickle their tums.
Even Malis tend to be massive derps. My neighbors have one who will bark at me like I'm a home intruder but will show me his belly the second he gets near me. He has the personality of a BPD crack head but in the cutest way possible.
If you really want a dog to act aggressive, poodles are fuckin psychos. They still probably won't actually attack but they'll bluster and threaten pretty readily if not trained properly.
One of the VHS movies tried to do something similar. The dog they showed was supposed to be attacking someone but the body language just wasn’t that of a dog that was attacking, it was just jumping up on the person.
This is true of every "vicious guard/attack dog" in a movie. 99% of the time, you have a Pit Bull, Rottweiler, German Shepherd (although this is rarer) or Doberman (and sometimes something like a Mastiff-type) that has its tail taped to its leg so it doesn't wag blatantly trying to play with the actors.
Trained guard dogs don't act like that - they don't act mindlessly vicious either. They'll sit and watch you for a bit, bark to scare you off and only chase you when you look like you're going to cause trouble or when they're told to.
Junkyard/criminal guard dogs don't act like they do in the movies either - they just try and bite the hand off of anything that comes near them, not because they're vicious, generally, but because they're terrified since they equate being approached = being hurt.
The movie version of Cujo had this problem - the book is about a rabid St. Bernard... unfortunately, it is borderline impossible for a St. Bernard to even act aggressive. Seriously, you'd have better luck trying underwater knitting.
The “lethal bug” that Mad Eye Moody controls with the Imperious curse in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an IRL insect known as a tailless whip scorpion.
Whip scorpions are neither venomous, nor deadly and the tailless subspecies doesn’t even have musk glands. The most one will do is pinch you with their claws when agitated. They make great pets!
look man i totally agree and respect them hugely, HOWEVER! I respect a lot of things that I’d much like FAAAAAR AWAY FROM MY FACE
whip scorpions might just be the scariest possible animal to me. being an ecology nerd with arachnophobia is quite the experience lemme tell ya, espically in an area with semi-tropical huge ass orb weaver spiders
The 1990 film arachnophobia uses huntsman spiders which to us folks in Australia and NZ are the least scary spiders around. You just let them chill in your house and they’ll eat bugs.
There is a scene where the actors actually kill a snake. The snake was a beloved pet of a crew member, who had no idea it was going to be killed. He was completely distraught after finding out.
Snakes in general are completely misunderstood by average people. This sentiment is justification to treat them with extreme cruelty that is vile to any snake owner who knows how gentle and sweet snakes can be.
Surprisingly subverted in James Bond. One of the movies (I think Thunderball) has Bond trapped in a pool, that then gets some sharks releases into it. The sharks completely ignore Bond, just casually swimming past him, and Bond uses their entry tunnel to escape from the pool.
Then the sharks maul the henchman that was also trapped in the same pool, so not entirely subverted.
To add a counterpoint to this, the sharks in Emilio Largo’s shark pool in Thunderball are referred to as “Golden grotto sharks” and are suggested to be the most dangerous sharks in the world.
The sharks that they actually used for filming are tiger sharks, which actually are some of the most dangerous sharks in the world in terms of number of attacks and the fatality rate of their bites. Obviously, as with most sharks, the actual danger they pose is lower than the perceived danger, as they rarely do bite. But if there were any shark that one would really not want to end up in an enclosed space with, it’s a tiger shark.
Plus, Sean Connery actually did have a very close encounter with one during filming - they built a clear, plexiglass barrier to protect him from the sharks during the pool scene. But one managed to swim through a gap and into the safe area, forcing him to quickly escape the pool.
Generally, any "creepy" animal like snakes, rats, lizards, scorpions, and spiders are whatever the nearest pet shop happened to have in stock.
Same goes with any "vicious guard/attack dog" - you see a Pit Bull type, a Rottweiler or a Doberman with its tail taped to one of its legs so it doesn't wag, blatantly trying to play with the cast.
Trained guard dogs don't act like that - they don't act mindlessly vicious either. They'll sit and watch you for a bit, bark to scare you off and only chase you when you look like you're going to cause trouble or when they're told to.
Junkyard/criminal guard dogs don't act like they do in the movies either - they just try and bite the hand off of anything that comes near them, not because they're vicious, generally, but because they're terrified since they equate being approached = being hurt.
(Source = somebody who lived near my paternal grandparents when I was a kid had a Bullmastiff who'd been a drug dealer's guard dog. When the police found him, initially, they had to tranquilise him because they couldn't get him out of the yard without him trying to attack them... because he'd come to associate people coming near him with people hurting him. He was a big sweetie when we knew him.)
The movie version of Cujo had this problem - the book is about a rabid St. Bernard... unfortunately, it is borderline impossible for a St. Bernard to even act aggressive. Seriously, you'd have better luck trying underwater knitting.
in pluribus, carol needs to scare away a pack of desert coyotes because they’re trying to dig up her wife’s grave in the backyard. they’re very clearly wolfdogs, and mostly dog… they don’t look like coyotes at all https://giphy.com/gifs/uwX6EJRJnzhXOYqCJB
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The other funny thing about the spider assassin is that after being released into his room, it dutifully goes straight to Bond, rather than scuttling into a cupboard or finding somewhere to shelter as a normal spider would.
Humans generally don’t interest spiders, unless they corner them or piss them off.