Tank (Eight Legged Freaks)

The Tarantula is a giant spider. It serves as the secondary antagonist in the comedy/horror film, Eight Legged Freaks.

It is exposed to noxious chemicals that causes it to grow even bigger than a man.

It is possibly the tarantula seen at the beginning of the film that bit Joshua, causing him to knock down the other spider cages and freeing them.

When he is fully grown, he is shown to be the biggest spider in the film.

The Tarantula is one of the spiders that attacks the town. It knocks down Harlan's trailer, flipping the spider on it's back, though it quickly gets to it's feet. He jumps on the car, but is unable to catch it and the humans escape.

Soon after, it appeared with all the others spiders, and Harlan remembers it as the one who busted up his trailer, and assumes it is the leader (this is incorrect though; it is Consuela who is the leader).

The giant rips open the steel gates that the humans are using and allows the other spiders to attack the humans.

It's legs are seen pushing a tracter that the humans were using to block the spiders away, and then the smaller spiders chase after the humans. The Tarantula is killed along with the other spiders in the explosin.