Underplayed Gems

Spider (2007)

Spider poster
Directed by
Nash Edgerton
Genre
drama, comedy
Country
Australia
Runtime
9 min
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 133 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A short black comedy about a man who plays a seemingly harmless prank on his girlfriend. The joke goes very wrong and sets off a chain of unexpected and grim consequences.

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What happens

Spider is a 2007 Australian black comedy short film directed by Nash Edgerton and written by David Michôd and Nash Edgerton. The film had its world premiere in competition at the Sydney Film Festival on 17 June 2007. After that the film competed at number of film festivals and was later released theatrically together with Edgerton's feature-film The Square. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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