Holy spider
2023
Blu-ray
Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed sixteen women between 2000 and 2001.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (118 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- LPCM 2.0
- wide screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Ankabut-e moqaddas (Motion picture) [Blu-ray].
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
- Special features: Q&A with Ali Abbasi, moderated by Ana Lily Amirpour; Q&A with moderator Reza Safai at Laemmle Town Center; Q&A at IFC Center with Ali Abbasi; Interview with director Ali Abbasi; Interview with actor Mehdi Bajestani; Interview with actor Zar Amir-Ebrahimi.
- Title from container.
- Director of photography, Nadim Carlsen ; editor, Olivia Neergaard-Holm ; music, Martin Dirkov.
- Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Mesbah Taleb, Alice Rahimi, Sara Fazilat, Ariane Naziri, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Firouz Agheli.
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, LPCM 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- Audio track in Persian (Farsi), captions in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: UTP00008B
Control Number: 3267069
UPC: 760137125600
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Utopia, [2023]Subjects:
- Journalists -- Iran -- Fiction.
- Serial murder investigation -- Iran -- Fiction.
- Serial murderers -- Iran -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Crime films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Persian.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Abbasi, Ali, 1981- film director, screenwriter, film producer.
- Agheli, Firouz, actor.
- Akbarpour, Nima, actor.
- Arte France cinéma (Firm), production company.
- Ashtiani, Arash, actor.
- Bahrami, Afshin Kamran, screenwriter.
- Bajestani, Mehdi, actor.
- Bundy, Solomon, 1823-1889, film producer.
- Ebrahimi, Zar Amir, actor.
- Fazilat, Sara, actor.
- Film i Väst (Firm), production company.
- Jamshidnejad, Forouzan, actor.
- Jarek, Jacob, film producer.
- Naziri, Ariane, actor.
- Nordisk Film (Firm), production company.
- One Two Films, presenter.
- Parvaneh, Sina, actor.
- Profile Pictures, presenter.
- Rahimi, Alice, 1996- actor.
- Taleb, Masbah, actor.
- Utopia Films, publisher.
- Why Not Productions, production company.
- Wild Bunch (Firm), production company.
- ZDF/Arte (Firm), production company.