Cultural depictions of spiders the West", and was remade as a 1967 Hong Kong cinema production. Many horror films have featured the spider, including 1955's "Tarantula", exploiting America's fear of atomic radiation during the nuclear arms race, the 1975 low-budget cult film "The Giant Spider Invasion", and "Kingdom of the Spiders", a 1977 film starring William Shatner, depicting the consequence of hungry spiders deprived of their natural food supply due to pesticides. The fear of spiders culminates in "Arachnophobia", a 1990 movie in which spiders multiply in large numbers. On the other hand, a person who admires spiders is referred to as an "arachnophile";
Fear of a Black Republican Klux Klan’s co-option by the Democratic Party during Reconstruction through the 1960s and the Kennedy-Nixon-Goldwater-Johnson era. Archival footage, some rarely seen, is included in the film and comes from sources as varied as the National Archives and ABCNews. ^ Williams, Vanessa (March 21, 2012). "Documentary Fear of a Black Republican dives into gray history of party’s racial politics". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 14, 2015. Thompson, Gary (June 13, 2012). "‘Fear of a Black Republican' explores GOP's complicated relationship with African-American voters" Philadelphia Daily News. Retrieved May 2, 2015. Williams, Kam (April 14, 2011)."DVD Review: Fear of A Black Republican"