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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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, who had to flee Iran after an intimate tape was leaked, has been transfixed by the protests erupting there as her film “Holy Spider ... Oct. 22, 2022 “I know that fear ...

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the ...

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 ...