The Spider Labyrinth

1988 [ITALIAN]

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

9
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1352 1.4K

monster budapest, hungary underground loss of loved one professor catacombs

Plot summary

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

Director

Gianfranco Giagni Photo
Gianfranco Giagni

Top cast

William Berger Photo
William Berger as Mysterious Man
Stéphane Audran Photo
Stéphane Audran as Mrs. Kuhn
Valeriano Santinelli Photo
Valeriano Santinelli
Margareta von Krauss Photo
Margareta von Krauss as Celia Roth
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
795.4 MB
1280*690
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 1
1.44 GB
1920*1036
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by trashgang 5 / 10

forgotten and rare flick

Not only do I hunt the independent flicks, I also try to track down those flicks that were never released in a proper way, no DVD or official VHS was released. Sometimes they were only available on VHS at a rental base. Most of those flicks are well sought after and aren't cheap to buy. But sometimes if you hunt and are patient you can find those gems. This is one of them. It's an Italian horror movie but I wouldn't say that it is a giallo. Therefore there are to much strange things going on, the occult takes an important factor in the storyline. It never bores but as always with the Italian ones the sound isn't what it should be. The added sounds like doors closing or the wind is always too loud and that makes you look for failures. Like when the wind blows hard you see leaves flying away in front of the street but further the trees are standing still. Do I need to say more. But the movie works and has his creepy moments. the killings aren't bloody or gory but they work and that's good, isn't it. There is some stop motion used with the rip off of the spiderhead scene in The Thing, but still it's worth seeing. The version I have is English spoken with Japanese subs and clocks in at 87 minutes, uncut. And for those perverts out there, yes, some nudity is involved but due the Japanese release private parts are blurred, you know what I mean...
Reviewed by juliamacon 6 / 10

Some Really Startling Imagery

The Spider Labyrinth, to my knowledge, has never had an official DVD/Blu-Ray release and that's a shame. Much of its power comes from its creepy visuals. The dialogue and a few plot developments don't always work, but there's no shortage of imaginative moments throughout.A young man ravels overseas to see what the hold up is with a professor and finds the man incredibly paranoid to the point of stark raving mad. He's found murdered the next day and this leads to an investigation into the occult.The Spider Labyrinth is similar in mood and story to some of Dario Argento's supernatural giallos and it also has a nicely paranoid feel like a Roman Polanski horror film. Maybe not everything works, but it's a journey worth taking.
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