Arachnophobia is still one of the best PG horror movies

Not to be all “they don’t make ’em like they used to” — a common complaint about movies that’s somehow both self-evident and often wrong — but PG horror really does seem to be facing complete extinction. Scary movies that are genuinely frightening but also clean enough to have the whole family squealing in delighted terrorused to be a blockbuster staple, especially in the ’80s. Now, nobody is making them.