Holy Spider

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

Cast

Zar Amir Ebrahimi

as Rahimi

Mehdi Bajestani

as Saeed

Arash Ashtiani

as Sharifi

Forouzan Jamshidnejad

as Fatima

Sina Parvaneh

as Rostami

Nima Akbarpour

as Judge

Sara Fazilat

as Zinab

Alice Rahimi

as Somayeh

Ali Nazarian

as Lawyer

Sima Seyed

as Saeed's Mother

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Over a relatively short period of time, over a dozen dead women are found bundled by the roadside - and the police are baffled? The women have not been sexually assaulted, but strangled using a knot tied in their headscarves. Not convinced that everything is being done by the authorities, investigat...

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** “Holy Spider” is a disturbing crime thriller that’s based on the true story of the “Spider Killer” Saeed Hanaei, a man who murdered 16 female sex workers in Iran in the early 2000s. It’s a chilling tale of the intersection of religion, culture, social ...

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