The Spider Labyrinth

Original title: Il nido del ragno

1988
Unrated
1h 27m

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Alan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus" while a mysterious killer in on the loos... Read allAlan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus" while a mysterious killer in on the loose...Alan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus" while a mysterious killer in on the loose...

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The original script for this movie, written by Tonino Cervi, Riccardo Aragno and Cesare Frugoni, dated from a few years earlier its release. As director Gianfranco Giagni explained, "It seemed a bit dated to me, so I called scriptwriter Gianfranco Manfredi and together we tried to give it a more modern framing story." Firstly, Giagni and Manfredi changed the setting from Venice to Budapest, frequently visited by Italian cinema in those years: "It is a city with many Gothic elements, with disquieting buildings in an apparently rational context ... cities like Budapest, Prague or Sarajevo suggest a sense of anxiety: behind their 'normality' there lies in fact a hidden 'abnormality."

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7/10

this strange supernatural giallo really needs a good DVD release

This one starts off pretty slow. After a brief scene involving two boys playing, a man is sent to Budapest to investigate what is going on with a professor there who was supposed to have sent something. It starts to pick up once he gets there and meets the professor. The professor is a nervous man who slips him something once his wife leaves. The investigator says he'll come back later that night to talk more. When he does, the police are there, and it seems some of the people he met may not have been who he thought.

Clearly the movie had a budget. It has lots of locations, some nice special effects, and camera-work that involves cranes.

What seems initially to be a giallo movie (and arguably still is) becomes a bit more supernatural than is usual for that subgenre. There's a woman with enormous strength, an exhibitionist research assistant, an old man with a warning, spider-shaped scars, heavy rolling balls, and it just keeps getting stranger. Some good murder set pieces, and a totally bizarre climax. The ending was pretty satisfying.