Web of the Spider

This article is about the 1971 film. For the topic, see spiderweb. For other uses, see Spider Web (disambiguation).
Web of the Spider
Italian film poster
Directed byAntonio Margheriti
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Bruno Corbucci
  • Giovanni Grimaldi
Produced byGiovanni Addessi[2]
Starring
Cinematography
  • Sandro Mancori
  • Memmo Mancori[2]
Edited byOtello Colangeli[2]
Music byRiz Ortolani
Production
companies
  • Produzione D.C.7
  • Paris Cannes Production
  • Terra-Filmkunst Gmbh[3]
Distributed byPanta Cinematografica
Release dates
  • 26 August 1971 (1971-08-26) (Italy)
  • 16 March 1972 (1972-03-16) (West Germany)
  • 8 February 1978 (1978-02-08) (France)
Running time
110 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
  • West Germany[1]
Box office₤232.442 million

Web of the Spider (Italian: Nella stretta morsa del ragno) is a 1971 horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti. The film is about the writer Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) who accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and his friend Thomas Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to stay a night in Blackwood's castle. At the castle, Foster meets Blackwood's sister Elisabeth (Michèle Mercier) and Julia (Karin Field). Foster has sex with Elisabeth and wakes up to find that she was stabbed by someone whose body vanishes, allowing Foster to realize the house is possessed by ghosts.

Web of the Spider is a color remake of Margheriti's earlier film Castle of Blood.

  1. ^ Paul 2005, p. 177.
  2. ^ a b c d e Curti 2017, p. 37.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference filmportal.de was invoked but never defined (see the help page).