Arachnophobia (film) in 1999. The film was released on Blu-ray on September 25, 2012. VHS and DVD releases by Hollywood/Buena Vista Home Video curiously omit the original poster art's spider from their cover design, however the Blu-ray now reinstates it. Unusually, the video game version of "Arachnophobia" was also released in 1991, for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and DOS. There is also a novelization of "Arachnophobia" written by author Nicholas Edwards. A soundtrack album for the film, also called "Arachnophobia", was released in 1990. It included Trevor Jones's instrumental music from the film as well as dialogue excerpts and songs such
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