Web of the Spider
- Year: 1971
- Country of origin: Italy, France, West Germany
- Genre: Horror
- Director: Antonio Margheriti
- Length: 102 min
Film Synopsis
Web of the Spider (1971) centers on an American journalist who challenges the supernatural tales of Edgar Allan Poe and accepts a bet to remain inside a notorious castle on the night of All Souls’ Eve. As ghostly apparitions, tragic reenactments, and increasingly sinister encounters intensify throughout the night while the castle’s dead inhabitants reveal the horrors that bind them to the estate, his confidence in reason begins to collapse. This Italian-French-West German gothic horror film examines mortality and temptation within a haunted world where the boundary between the living and the dead no longer exists, as fear begins to overtake reason, with ghosts, vampirism, and supernatural doom.
Web of the Spider Blu-ray editions
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| Disc Extras | Film Masters BD-A/US 2024 | Garagehouse BD-ALL/US 2017 |
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| Audio Commentary by Keith Crocker and George Reis | ||
| Audio Commentary by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman | ||
| Audio Commentary by Stephen Romano | ||
| Deleted Scene | ||
| German Super 8 Version | ||
| Stills Gallery | ||
| German Theatrical Trailer | ||
| Video Trailer |
Edition and Packaging Notes
- Film Masters’ “Special Edition” Blu-ray also includes Creature with the Blue Hand (1967). It includes a 24-page booklet with writing by Nick Clark (“‘Creature with the Blue Hand’ and Germany’s Undersung Branch of Genre Cinema”) and Christopher Stewardson (“Cobwebs and Castles: Comparing Antonio Margheriti’s ‘Castle of Blood’ and ‘Web of the Spider’”), and a trailer for Castle of Blood (1964).
- Garagehouse’s Blu-ray includes trailers for Castle of Blood (1964), Castle of Blood (1964) / Hercules in the Haunted World (1961), Lightening Bolt (1966), The Wild, Wild Planet (1966), War Between the Planets (1966), The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974), The Squeeze (1978), Killer Fish (1979), Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983) and Code Name: Wild Geese (1984).
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Collector’s guide
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| Extras | Audio Commentary by Keith Crocker and George Reis Garagehouse BD |
| Audio Commentary by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman Film Masters BD | |
| Audio Commentary by Stephen Romano Garagehouse BD | |
| Deleted Scene Garagehouse BD | |
| German Super 8 Version Garagehouse BD | |
| Stills Gallery Garagehouse BD | |
| German Theatrical Trailer Garagehouse BD | |
| Video Trailer Film Masters BD |