Holy Spider. 2022.
A journalist travels to the city of Mashhad to investigate the murders of sex workers by a killer who calls himself "The Holy Spider".
This was a blind buy and had no idea what I was getting myself in for, the actors I have no clue about or ever heard of them so that was a good start.
The film opens up with a prostitute doing her work (there is a scene of her performing oral and it is hardcore) and then meeting her death. Zar Amir Ebrahim is the female journalist and we are introduced how tough the laws are on women on their own in the city. Early in the film we are seen who the killer is and then the suspense builds up on how to catch a killer who leads a normal family life that's almost like the BTK killer Dennis Radar. The kills can be mild but also in one part can be brutal and we see the aftermath. The film was made in Iran and does contain subtitles.
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The film is based on a real crime that happened in Iran between 2000 and 2001.