Questions for Americans...
Watching this movie I was started by the number of shots of menacing looking tarantulas crawling about. It seemed every establishing shot did a rack focus to one crawling about and of course there's that dream sequence.
My question is:
Are there really that many tarantulas crawling about in rural America? I was under the impression they were fairly tropical creatures. I know Wes loves using spiders in his movies, but he usually puts them in places like the desert of "Hills Have Eyes" or the Carribean in "Serpent and the Rainbow", not down-to-earth locales like in "Deadly Blessing".
So is it an artistic license (sure was creepy!) or is it fairly accurate in that regard?