As someone who actually lives in the city the events of this movie happened in any bad review of this movie usually containing bad and broken english is not a real person and either is someone trying to make this movie look bad or it is someone working for the corrupt islamic regime of iran, this movie perfectly shows the social situation of iran and the city mashhad especially ,women are treated unjustly and un-equally even this movie is labeled as "dishonoring holy beliefs" and therefore is illegal and dont get me started on the cencorship laws perventing this movie ever going on screen in iran atleast under the islamic regime ,but anyways the movie.

Unfun fact the interview footage at the end of the movie is based of what the son of saeed hanaee(the spider killers real name) actually said in an actual interview...

Where to even start the cinematography ,the lighting ,the atmosphere the feeling it gives you as characters panic you are on the edge of your seat panic-ing with them everything about this movie is just perfect but a warning to anyone light hearted or anyone who gets uncomfortable easily and all that this movie for lack of a better word decimates you ,at about the halfway point I was physically exhausted and had to take a break ,I noticed I was tense and was contracting muscles in some really disturbing scenes ,This movie is just something else ,A True Masterpiece.

When this very acclaimed director announced he was going to make another feature, I naturally rushed to the theater to see it. And it was sure a great start to the 2023 movie season.

It is a very disturbing and graphical depiction of a serial killer-mystery thriller, and it doesn't shy away from the gore, yet doesn't wallow in it. It's certainly not for the faint of heart, but all is in service of the important and terrifying script.

The script is, in itself, astonishing. Based on a true story, it's a paralel tale between the killer and the journalists chasing him. You actually feel some kind of sympathy for the serial killer, something that is not easy to convey.

It's a very beautifully made film, with great cinematography, incredible award winning acting and an important yet hard to fathom theme.

It's certainly bound to be one of the best films of the year.

A serial killer in Iran is the subject matter as a religious zealot strangled sixteen prostitutes before being caught by the police.

A journalist wearing a head scarf is the main character throughout the film and I do not know how much of what is presented is fact and what is fiction.

The reporter hounds law enforcement to solve the series of brutal murders against the backdrop of a theocratic society with little regard for women selling their bodies in order to feed their drug addictions.

The people of the sacred area where the hookers offered their wares were, for the most part, supportive of the killer.

Religious fanaticism in all of its forms are equally dangerous and Holy Spider portrays them in a realistic manner.