Holy Spider
عنکبوت مقدس
Overview
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
- Revenue
- $1,252,637
- Production
- Profile Pictures, One Two Films, Nordisk Film Sweden, Film i Väst, Why Not Productions, ZDF/Arte, ARTE France Cinéma, The Imaginarium Films, Rotor Film
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ali Abbasi
- Writers
- Afshin Kamran Bahrami,Ali Abbasi
- Producers
- Ditte Milsted,Jacob Jarek,Sol Bondy,Ali Abbasi
- Cinematography
- Nadim Carlsen
- Composer
- Martin Dirkov
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CinemaSerf
January 23, 2023
Over a relatively short period of time, over a dozen dead women are found bundled by the roadside - and the police are baffled? The women have not been sexually assaulted, but strangled using a knot tied in their headscarves. Not convinced that everything is being done by the authorities, investigative journalist "Rahimi" (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) decides to get to the truth. Meantime, we follow the life of taxi driver "Saeed" (Mehdi Bajestani) and his daily life helps us to realise that the deceased …
Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
April 23, 2023
**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** “Holy Spider” is a disturbing crime thriller that’s based on the true story of the “Spider Killer” Saeed Hanaei, a man who murdered 16 female sex workers in Iran in the early 2000s. It’s a chilling tale of the intersection of religion, culture, social status, and sexism, and despite director Ali Abbasi sometimes crossing the line into more sordid territory, it’s a genuinely alarming film with a distressing universal message about the value of women…