Review of Holy Spider

Holy Spider (2022)
8/10
With God on His Side
2 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A serial killer in Iran is the subject matter as a religious zealot strangled sixteen prostitutes before being caught by the police.

A journalist wearing a head scarf is the main character throughout the film and I do not know how much of what is presented is fact and what is fiction.

The reporter hounds law enforcement to solve the series of brutal murders against the backdrop of a theocratic society with little regard for women selling their bodies in order to feed their drug addictions.

The people of the sacred area where the hookers offered their wares were, for the most part, supportive of the killer.

Religious fanaticism in all of its forms are equally dangerous and Holy Spider portrays them in a realistic manner.
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