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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: HOLY SPIDER review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing HOLY SPIDER (2022), currently available on Netflix.  Directed by Ali Abbasi, from a script by Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami and story supervisor Jonas Wagner, the film is based on true events that occurred between 2000 and 2001. In the film, journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) comes to the holy city of Mashhad to investigate the murders of sex workers at the hands of the "Spider Killer," who's been in touch with a local journalist and proclaiming his belief in doing holy work as he is cleansing the streets of these corrupted women. The killer...