Arachnophobia (film) Students and staff were used in the football scenes and group events. The locker room and players were the actual students and players from CUHS. To create the sound effects of spiders being stepped on or squished, Foley artists stepped on mustard packs or squashed potato chips. "Arachnophobia" was the first film released by Hollywood Pictures. Advertisers were uncertain as to whether they should market the film as a thriller or a comedy. Therefore, television spots promoting the film billed it as a "thrill-omedy". "Arachnophobia" debuted at #3 behind "Ghost" and "Die Hard 2" with $8 million in its first
Fear Clinic (film) attempt. Wandering through the building, Sara discovers Andover's records where he states that the creature is actually a manifestation of fear and that his Fear Chamber was effectively starving it of what it needed to survive: more fear. Andover is pulled into a strange cocoon-like structure on the wall, which enables the fear creature to take over his body. Meanwhile, Blake ended up succumbing to the influence of fear and becomes the shooter once more. He then proceeds to murder one of the clinic's employees while the fear creature incapacitates or kills several of the clinic's inhabitants through its influence.