Arachnophobia (film) helped produce it. Marshall meant for the film to be like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and added, "People like to be scared but laughing, like a roller coaster. No one wants to be terrified." The film also has similarities with the 1977 film "Kingdom of the Spiders". Producer Igo Kantor hinted in his "Fangoria" interview that "Arachnophobia", which Spielberg produced, bears several similarities to "Kingdom of the Spiders". "I thought it was a copy", Kantor stated, "but you don't go and sue Spielberg!" Jamie Hyneman, of "MythBusters" fame, stated in "Popular Mechanics" that "Arachnophobia" was one of the first movies
A Reflection of Fear Fear"" has been so ponderously paced and fatally overdecorated that performances can't count for much." Paul Mavis in his mixed review on DVD Talk enounced that, "there's no getting around the fact that much of "A Reflection of Fear" flat-out doesn't make sense. And that's okay up to a certain point, because the main story arc still comes through fairly clearly, and the scares and atmosphere help make up for the film's other shortcomings." "TV Guide" lauded Locke's delivery of her character, saying, "Locke is very effective in her psychotic role, giving the story an eerie quality that is otherwise