![]() There have been no clues to his identity for six months, or at least that’s the convenient explanation for his continued exploits. (It also casts considerable doubt on Hanaei’s claim that killing afforded him no psychological kick, expressed even by how he disposes of an apple.) Whether those forces secretly support him - or if he is a cog in a conspiracy of multiple murderers - are theories investigated by Arezoo Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), a composite-character journalist whom Abbasi has created from whole cloth.Īfter rumors of social impropriety run her out of Tehran, Rahimi arrives in Mashhad to write about the Spider Killer. ![]() Holy Spider certainly communicates the manner in which Iran’s curdled culture and craven codification of faith contributed to a lack of urgency to apprehend Hanaei. If these women “chose” this degradation, these people believed they deserved such a fate. At the time, Abbasi was baffled by a conservative consensus on Hanaei’s crimes that lionized and lifted up his vicious violence as he justified it - a righteous, religious duty to purge the profane in alignment with Islamic teaching. ![]() Hailing from Iranian director / co-writer Ali Abbasi ( Border), the film adapts the true story of Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), a serial murderer known as the Spider Killer who targeted female sex workers in Mashhad, Iran, in 20. ![]() If morality-minded Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi produced an adaptation of a James Patterson potboiler, it might look a lot like Holy Spider (available on VOD beginning tomorrow). ![]()
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