Arachnophobia (film) town from San Francisco. He faces a lack of patients due to elderly rival Sam Metcalf, who was supposed to retire and shift his patients to Ross, but decided to maintain his practice. The Amazonian spider mates with a female domestic house spider and makes a nest in Jennings' barn, producing hundreds of infertile drone offspring, all of which have a lethal bite. Ross, along with his son Tommy, has arachnophobia, making them targets of ridicule to wife Molly and daughter Shelly. Ross's first patient, Margaret Hollins, dies after being bitten. Metcalf diagnoses a heart attack, although Ross suspects that
Fear of Music vocal performance" and its nuances and called "Fear of Music" "a quantum leap" for the band. Tom Bentkowski of "New York" concluded, "But what makes the record so successful, perhaps, is a genuinely felt anti-elitism. Talking Heads was clever enough to make the intellectual infectious and even danceable." AllMusic's William Ruhlmann claimed that "Fear of Music" is "an uneven, transitional album", but nonetheless stated that it includes songs that match the quality of the band's best works. In the 1995 "Spin Alternative Record Guide", Eric Weisbard gave the record a rating of nine out of ten and called it Talking