# Movies with Arthropods **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494 "2001-03-18T20:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/21 "2001-03-19T01:54:36Z")
**Q** uatermas and the pit. An old Hammer horror featuring three legged Martian arthropods. I think that counts. **W** ho Framed Roger Rabbit? I’m sure there must have been a bug in there somewhere, it had every other type of animal. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/22 "2001-03-19T03:45:31Z")
**Y** is for _Yog – Monster from Space_ (1971 US Release) who is a parasite that mutates earth xreatures (including a crab) into giant freaks of their former selves. Hey, I never said it was a _good_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/23 "2001-03-19T04:30:16Z")
Did anyone mention **Lobster Man from Mars** , with Tony Curtis, yet? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/24 "2001-03-19T05:30:18Z")
This poor child is going to have a list of the most esoteric movies on earth. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/25 "2001-03-19T06:38:59Z")
Which I had seen this thread sooner: [Insect Fear Film Festival](http://www.life.uiuc.edu/entomology/newsletter/newsltr1999/fearfilm.htm) at U of Illinois. Here at Rutgers, we’ll be showing _James and the Giant Peach_ this month and _Wasp Woman_ next month. Maybe the grad students will have some leftover mealworm cookies (surprisingly tasty) from Ag Field Day instead of popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/26 "2001-03-19T07:13:53Z")
Z= A Zed and Two Noughts (1988). According to the VideoHound’s movie guide, this movie is about two zoologists who film “the decay of animal bodies absconded from the zoo.” It’s described as “heavily textured and experimental.” I haven’t seen this film, but that sounds like maggots to me. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/27 "2001-03-19T14:53:31Z")
Here’s a few of the toughies: Q: “Queen Bee” (1955) starring Joan Crawford W: “Where the Green Ants Dream” (1984) - a German film about Australian Aborigines directed by Werner Herzog. Z: brachys’ “A Zed and Two Noughts” is a pretty good possiblity. I saw it, but it was a long time ago. I can’t be sure it had maggots in it, but as brachy says it almost certainly did. However, as an alternative I can offer “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” (1983), a concert film about David Bowie. X, as in most alphabet quizzes, is going to be the killer. I have only found eight movies beginning with X, and none of them sound like great possibilities. The most likely are: “Xanadu”: I fortunately have never seen it. Does Olivia Newton-John perhaps eat a shrimp at some point? “X-The Man with X-Ray vision.” “X the Unknown” ---
**Author:** ![barton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@barton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/28 "2001-03-19T16:32:59Z")
I can’t remember if Toad snapped up a fly or two during the film, but if he did, “X-Men” might fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/29 "2001-03-19T17:06:17Z")
Here’s O: “October Moth” (1955) Seems like the only one no one has made a suggestion for is V, and I’m still stumped on that one too. barton, “X-Men” is an excellent suggestion. I seem to recall Toad catching a bug in the movie, but I am not 100% sure. Another recent possibility is the “X-Files,” but as I have not seen it I don’t know if there are any arthropods in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/30 "2001-03-19T17:49:42Z")
IIRC, the _X Files_ movie had a swarm of bees that were to be used as vectors to infect populations with (here my memory gets even fuzzier than usual) an antidote to the black cancer(?) Or am I remembering an episode from the series? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/31 "2001-03-19T17:56:16Z")
The best way to get an “X” movie is to go to IMDB and get a list of all the movies that start with “X”. Then find one of those that has an Arthropod in it. No, I’m not going to do it for you! (kids today…grumble, grumble…) ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/32 "2001-03-20T00:19:46Z")
The thought here is that the thread will end when each letter has a movie, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/33 "2001-03-20T01:32:10Z")
Hey, I have one for V. In “Vampire’s Kiss,” Nicholas Cage eats a live cockroach. That should do it, except it would be nice if someone could confirm that either X-Men or the X-Files actually has an insect scene in it. To summarize, and with thanks to Max Torque’s list (and with a few new ones thrown in): A - Arachnophobia/Antz/Alien Resurrection/Attack of the Crab Monsters B - A Bug’s Life/Beetlejuice/Believers C - Charlotte’s Web/Creepshow/Curse of the Spider Woman D - Deadly Mantis/Daddy Long Legs/Dr. Doolittle E - Exorcist II: The Heretic/Emperor’s New Groove F - The Fly/FernGully G - Giant Spider Invasion H - Helstrom Chronicle/Honey, I Shrunk The Kids I - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom/Island Claws(giant radioactive crabs)/I Know What You Did Last Summer J - Jurassic Park/Joe’s Apartment/James and the Giant Peach K - Kingdom of the Spiders L - Lord of the Flies/Lobster Man from Mars M - Men in Black/Mothra/Mimic N - The Nest O - October Moth P - Phase IV/Predator/Psycho Q - Queen Bee R - The Relic S - Skeeter/The Swarm/Silence of the Lmabs/Seven T - Ticks/Tarantula/Twilight of the Cockroaches U - Ulee’s Gold V - Vampire’s Kiss W - Wasp Woman/Where the Green Ants Dream X - X-Men?? X-Files?? Y - Yellow Jack (about the discovery that mosquitoes carry Yellow Fever)/Yog Z - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars/A Zed and Two Noughts (?) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/34 "2001-03-20T01:48:40Z")
Yeah, X-Files had bees. ---
**Author:** ![ellimac007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellimac007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ellimac007)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-arthropods/58494/35 "2001-03-20T02:38:20Z")
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