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Spider

United Kingdom, Canada

2002

98 Min
Color
1.78:1
English
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DIR David Cronenberg

EXEC Jane Barclay, Charles Finch, Simon Franks, Victor Hadida, Sharon Harel, Zygi Kamasa, Martin Katz, Hannah Leader, Luc Roeg

PROD Catherine Bailey, David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida

SCR Patrick McGrath

DP Peter Suschitzky

CAST Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Bradley Hall

ED Ronald Sanders

PROD DES Andrew Sanders

MUSIC Howard Shore

Cannes (In Competition), Toronto: Best Canadian Feature Film, Telluride, AFI FEST (Special Screenings)

Synopsis

Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality. —IMDb

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David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father’s path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled, modern-vampire variations of Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977), following an experimental apprenticeship in independent filmmaking and in Canadian television programs.

Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding, telepathy-based Scanners (1981) after the release of the much underrated, controversial, and autobiographical The Brood (1979). Cronenberg become a sort… read more

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Zach Closs

25Nov11

Slow-burning and chilling. Seriously got under my skin, which I consider to be a very good thing.

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Tigrane

6Nov11

Fucking great film, surprisingly slow and calm from Cronenberg.

Anna

9Oct11

The only C's film I really loved, so far.

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A WEB OF INSANITY

By meancre​ek on January 29, 2011

This film has an odd structure, and its hard to understand the aim of the film, or even the plot at times. The structure is it’s main downfall, and it’s not quite represented or executed as well as…  read review

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By Carlos Quintão on June 26, 2009

Um dos filmes mais contidos do cineasta canadense Cronenberg, dado a explorações mais viscerais de doenças e degenerações do corpo e do sexo. Mas essa contenção é apenas ilusória. Aqui, Cronenberg…  read review

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By Sam Cooper on June 1, 2009

It’s been a few years since I’ve last seen this, but after seeing the majority of Cronenberg’s work now I can easily say that this ranks as one of his best. A haunting tale of a deeply disturbed man…  read review

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