Holy Spider Not rated. In Persian, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 56 minutes. In theaters. Starring Alongside Stitch: Cast members from the original 2002 animated film and the live-action ...

Based on the Spider Killer’s 2000-2001 crimes in Iran, Holy Spider takes place in the dark underbelly of Mashhad. Rahimi (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) is a journalist who enters the city with the intent ...

to be pawed at and cast aside by men as blind to her humanity as her eventual killer. “Holy Spider” itself isn’t entirely blind to that humanity, but its sympathies extend only as far as the ...

Or is a devout Muslim waging jihad against prostitution? Holy Spider is based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, who murdered 16 women in Mashhad in 2000-2001. Dubbed the Holy Spider, Hanaei was ...

The gripping Iranian serial killer film, "Holy Spider" is set in the holy city Mashhad, where Saeed (Mehdi Bajestani) is murdering sex workers. (The pre-credit sequence depicts his ninth victim).

Abbasi won the Best Director award at 2022 Fantastic Fest. “Holy Spider” is the official Danish submission for the 95th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category. Abbasi co ...

A lurid and purposefully nasty piece of work, writer-director Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider” tells the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a construction worker and decorated veteran of the Iran-Iraq ...

Zar Amir Ebrahimi (also known as Zahra) should be basking in the glow of her best actress win at Cannes for “Holy Spider ... the best-reviewed movies of 2022. But before the red carpets ...

“I always had a very specific sense of urgency with this idea,” said Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi of wanting to make a film noir based on the true story of the “Spider Killer” Saeed ...

Holy Spider‘s plot synopsis: “Female journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer who believes he is doing the work of God ...

Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s Close, Danish director Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and Swedish director Ruben Ôstlund’s Triangle Of Sadness lead the nominations for the 35th European Film ...