Horror Movies That Audiences Walked Out Of

The 1990s wasn't the best decade for horror, with slasher series' like "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Halloween," and "Friday the 13th" falling into self-parody, and graphic bone chillers like "Saw" still waiting for the new millennium. But there were nevertheless a few creepy standouts that managed to get under audiences' skin, and foremost among them was "Arachnophobia," a 1990 horror movie starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. While it's not the most shocking or disturbing film on this list, and even has something of a comedic slant to it, the film's subject matter is understandably enough to have some fans bailing for the exits.

As you can imagine from the movie's title, the film centers on a mass infestation of spiders, these of the deadly kind, mistakenly brought back to a small town from Venezuela by accident. As the body count rises around the little burg, it's up to Dr. Ross Jennings — a fearful arachnophobe — to battle the little beasties.

Full of those creepy crawlies, "Arachnophobia" probably wasn't ever an appealing movie to anyone with their own fear of spiders. But peruse online forums and you'll find plenty of folks describing just how scary it really is, whether you're predisposed to fear spiders or not. In fact, it even proved educating for some, like one Reddit user who claimed, "I walked out of the movie 'Arachnophobia' because it taught me that I have arachnophobia."