Based on the Spider Killer’s 2000-2001 crimes in Iran, Holy Spider takes place in the dark underbelly of Mashhad. Rahimi (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) is a journalist who enters the city with the intent of ...

The gripping Iranian serial killer film, “Holy Spider” is set in the holy city Mashhad, where Saeed (Mehdi Bajestani) is murdering sex workers. (The pre-credit sequence depicts his ninth victim).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A serial killer roams the streets at night, picking off desperate prostituted women, many of whom are hooked on crack, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How should we balance a movie’s aims and execution, when the two very evidently diverge? In dramatizing the true story of ...

Director Ali Abbasi captures the true crime story in the official Danish Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film. Inspired by a terrifying true story, “Holy Spider” untangles the web of a ...

The film is having its world premiere in Cannes on May 22. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent A female journalist in Iran goes on the hunt for a serial killer in the first trailer for Ali Abbasi’s ...

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 ...

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the ...

Will is a freelance writer who has been seen in a variety of print and online publications. See you at the movies. Based on the brutal true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who murdered 16 women ...

How should we balance a movie’s aims and execution, when the two very evidently diverge? In dramatizing the true story of early-aughts serial killer Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), who murdered 16 sex ...