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
The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" or "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in "The Blue Fairy Book" (1889). The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, "Good Bowling and Card Playing" (). It is classified as its own Aarne–Thompson index type 326 of a male protagonist's unsuccessful