Spider

Spider

2002 · 98 min · EN · R · 6.6 (981 votes)
Dir. David Cronenberg · Starring Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Philip Craig · Music Howard Shore

“The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again.”

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A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

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This is a deeply unsettling, melancholic slow-burn that plunges into the fractured psyche of a man haunted by his past. It's a tense, claustrophobic journey through unreliable memories, painting a bleak portrait of trauma and mental illness with stark, psychological realism.

unsettlingmelancholicpsychologicaltensebleakslow-burnpsychological realismclaustrophobic atmosphereunsettling visualscharacter-driventraumafractured memorymental illnessperception vs. realityisolation
london, englandbased on novel or bookpsychopathasylumpastchildhood traumabed and breakfast (b&b)british pubhaunted by the pasthalfway house
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