Spider
by David Cronenberg
List Price:
Our Price: $6.68
You Save: $8.30 (55%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.00 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Ralph FiennesDirector: David Cronenberg
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Spider
Movie Review: We Can All Go Home Now.
Summary: 5 Stars
Spider. He remembers everything and nothing.
He likes to go into a picture that is hanging in this caf? he visits. In the picture, he and 2 of his friends say and do the most hilariously perverse things to one another. Then Spider takes nudey pics out of his pants and it's flippin' uproarious
Spider likes to put together jigsaw puzzles but instead of taking a break when he gets stuck, he freaks out and throws the puzzle all over the floor! Missus whatshername yells at him that he has to pick all the pieces back up and you know damn well he's not going to do what she says.
Spider gets completely hypnotized by the gasworks across the street from his house, he just stands there and he can't even move. His best friend has to come and literally drag him back into the house. I think he killed his mom that way but I wonder if he knows. He must because he can't move when he looks at the gasworks. Yet his mind is working just like that gasworks, automatic. I'm still so confused and I've scene this bloody movie 5 times.
He smokes like a total fiend, so much so that his hands are all yellow, he'll smoke at really inappropriate times, too, like when he's laying in bed. He writes and writes and I'm not convinced yet that he can speak coherently. It's all face and eyes. Mostly eyes.
His hair cut makes him look like a little kid when it's clean and when his mate breaks a huge mirror and tries to kill himself, Spider steals (he's an expert theif) and then turns in the piece of glass he's stolen. But he can hardly speak, so damaged.
And when he takes a bath, he lays on his side in the rust stained water, completely still, joyless, cold. Hard.
You just want to heal this man, at least I wanted to. Ralph Fiennes (Super Hot? And what does that mean this time around?) is spot on as this afflicted damaged schizophrenic suffering and dangerous man. I've seen everything Fiennes has ever done and for me, this is IT.
The Best. EVER.
Summary of Spider
A brilliant and powerful psychological thriller about a deeply disturbed boy, Spider, who 'sees' his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute. Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, his delusional account of his past begins to unravel and Spider spirals into fresh madness. Starring: Academy Award? Nominee Ralph Fiennes (Red Dragon,Schindler's List,The English Patient), Golden Globe Winner Miranda Richardson (Enchanted April, Damage), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Enemy of the State), Golden Globe Winner Lynn Redgrave (Shine, Gods and Monsters), Directed by award winning David Cronenberg (eXistenZ, Crash).Internal madness is hypnotically externalized in David Cronenberg's Spider, a disturbing portrait of schizophrenia. Adapted by Patrick McGrath from his celebrated novel, this no-frills production begins when "Spider" Cleg (Ralph Fiennes, in a daring, nearly nonverbal role) returns to his childhood neighborhood in London's dreary East End, where a traumatic event from his past percolates to the surface of his still-erratic consciousness. Released from a mental institution and left to fend for himself, he pursues elusive memories while staying in a halfway house run by a stern matron (Lynn Redgrave), unable to distinguish between past, present, and psychological fabrication. The distorting influence of Spider's mind is directly reflected in Cronenberg's cunning visual strategy, presenting a shifting "reality" that's deliberately untrustworthy, until the veracity of nearly every scene is called into question. With an impressive dual-role performance by Miranda Richardson, Spider falls prey to its own lugubrious rhythms, but like the acclaimed 1995 indie film Clean, Shaven, it's a compelling glimpse of mental illness, seen from the inside out. --Jeff Shannon
Art House & International DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Current Crop of Scariest Flicks!
TimecrimesRelease date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $22.99
Price in other shops:
BelowRelease date: 2003-03-11; DVD
Best price: $4.85
Price in other shops:
SpiderSony; Release date: 2003-07-29; DVD
Best price: $4.67
Price in other shops:
Open Water (Widescreen Edition)LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2004-12-28; DVD
Best price: $1.85
Price in other shops:
Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)Universal; Release date: 2004-10-26; DVD
Best price: $1.99
Price in other shops:
Them (a.k.a. Ils)MPI; Release date: 2008-03-25; DVD
Best price: $15.73
Price in other shops:
Wolf CreekWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2006-04-11; DVD
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)Release date: 2003-10-21; DVD
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
Resident Evil (Special Edition)Release date: 2002-07-30; DVD
Best price: $25.35
Ju-on (The Grudge)Lions Gate; Release date: 2004-11-09; DVD
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2005-10-04; DVD
Best price: $11.15
Price in other shops:
The Dead Zone (Special Collector's Edition)Paramount; Release date: 2006-09-26; DVD
Best price: $6.19
Price in other shops:
Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition)Universal; Release date: 2007-12-23; DVD
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops:
A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series)MORTENSEN,VIGGO; Release date: 2006-03-14; DVD
Price in other shops:
The BroodTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2003-08-26; DVD
Best price: $4.90
Price in other shops:
ScannersTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2001-08-28; DVD
Best price: $3.79
Price in other shops:
CrashRelease date: 1998-11-17; DVD
Best price: $11.57
Price in other shops:
VideodromeUniversal; Release date: 1998-09-08; DVD
Best price: $4.66
Price in other shops:
Dead RingersWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-06-07; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
eXistenZRelease date: 1999-10-19; DVD
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops: