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Triangle of Sadness among leaders of European film award nominations

Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning satire is up for four awards, while Penélope Cruz and Paul Mescal feature in acting categories

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2022

Review: The serial killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ gets stuck in its own morally murky web

On April 8, 2002, Saeed Hanaei was executed for the murders of 16 women between 2000 and 2001 in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The media dubbed him the “Spider Killer” for the way he lured his victims into his lair — the same apartment he shared with his unsuspecting…

Los Angeles Times · Nov 4, 2022

Iranian serial killer film "Holy Spider"

"To show the underbelly of a violent place, you can't do it with a feather pen," the filmmaker tells Salon

Salon · Oct 28, 2022

Deep in the paradox

In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon.…

Bangkok Post · May 24, 2022

Holy Spider review – Iranian crime thriller takes real case and makes it implausible

Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022