Spider
Labyrinth
Italy 1988. Director: Gianfranco Giagni
Cast: Roland Wybenga, Stéphane Audran, William Berger
Aka: Il Nido del Ragno
Another stylish Argento-ish yarn, which some received with ill-concealed enthusiasm when it first arrived. Today not many even remember it and for a good reason too. The director Gianfranco Giagni is perhaps best known for the better episodes of the highly successful Valentina TV-series and he has some sense for style apparently. Withouth revealing too much of the plot it centers around an American lecturer (Roland Wybenga) who arrives in Budapest to meet a Professor Roth who has stumbled onto an over 4,000 years old mysterious evil sect.
Italy 1988. Director: Gianfranco Giagni
Cast: Roland Wybenga, Stéphane Audran, William Berger
Aka: Il Nido del Ragno
Another stylish Argento-ish yarn, which some received with ill-concealed enthusiasm when it first arrived. Today not many even remember it and for a good reason too. The director Gianfranco Giagni is perhaps best known for the better episodes of the highly successful Valentina TV-series and he has some sense for style apparently. Withouth revealing too much of the plot it centers around an American lecturer (Roland Wybenga) who arrives in Budapest to meet a Professor Roth who has stumbled onto an over 4,000 years old mysterious evil sect.
The film does look good and it has some very cool underground sets, although most of it seems to have been built in a studio. But it also relies too much upon heavy special effects by Sergio Stivaletti, which aren't that interesting, and a hopeless screenplay which only functions as a link between various stylish and violent set-pieces, some which are suspiciously Argento-looking. Good to look at, but best forgotten. Still, it could have been worse, you know, Luigi Cozzi could have had a hand in it.
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