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Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who targeted street prostitutes and killed at least 16 women from 2000 to 2001 in Mashhad, Iran, the film depicts a fictional female journalist investigating a serial killer. Holy Spider was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in May, [4] where Ebrahimi ...
Killer Spider (Persian: عنکبوت, romanized: Ankabut) is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed by Ebrahim Irajzad and written by Oktay Baraheni based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film screened for the first time at the 25th Busan International Film Festival .
Ali Abbasi's ambitious follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 'Border' tackles the real-life story of one of Iran's most notorious murderers.
Saeed Hanaei or Said Hanai (Persian: سعید حنایی; 1962 – April 8, 2002) was an Iranian serial killer, arrested in 2001 for the murders of at least 16 women in Mashhad. [1] Hanaei was referred to as the "Spider Killer" for the way he lured his victims, mainly prostitutes, back to his home before strangling them.
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Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American thriller film directed by Lee Tamahori. It is the second installment in the Alex Cross film series and a sequel to the 1997 film Kiss the Girls , with Morgan Freeman and Jay O. Sanders reprising their roles as detective Alex Cross and FBI agent Kyle Craig.
Giant spiders appear in several role-playing games, such as Lolth, the Spider Queen of Dungeons & Dragons, [125] [126] and the first edition of Warcraft, where spiders are described as being "of staggering size—perhaps 15 feet around—with great furred body." [127] Lolth is the main goddess of the dark elves.
Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...