Web of the Spider (1971)

Original title

Nella stretta morsa del ragno

Directed by

Antonio Margheriti

Genre

horror film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A writer accepts a bet to spend a night in a haunted castle. He meets the owner's sister and has a strange encounter that leads him to believe the house is full of ghosts.

gothicatmosphericcreepyghostlyeerieslow-pacedmysterious

What happens

Web of the Spider (Italian: Nella stretta morsa del ragno) is a 1971 horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti. The film is about the writer Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) who accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and his friend Thomas Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to stay a night in Blackwood's castle. At the castle, Foster meets Blackwood's sister Elisabeth (Michèle Mercier) and Julia (Karin Field). Foster has sex with Elisabeth and wakes up to find that she was stabbed by someone whose body vanishes, allowing Foster to realize the house is possessed by ghosts. Web of the Spider is a color remake of Margheriti's earlier film Castle of Blood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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