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Spider (Robotic Insects)  
  Scuttling insect robots.  

Maniacal bad guy played by KISS' Gene Simmons creates scuttling insect robots with acid-tipped stingers; they chase Tom Selleck. What more do you need to know?


(Killer-Spider-Robots attack Tom Selleck in Runaway)
Technovelgy from Runaway, by Michael Crichton.
Published by Tri-Star Pictures in 1985
Additional resources -

These little guys were pretty scary - and they worked in packs.

See this video (*spoiler alert!) for creepy details.

Here's an excerpt from the movie script:

I can't have any witnesses.

The spiders have been programmed to

kill the first one off the elevator.

They'll let you in.

But they won't let you out.

There's nothing you can do!

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