Spider

Ralph Fiennes plays a grown man haunted by his childhood in David Cronenberg's stylized psychological drama Spider. Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider (Fiennes) takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of the film ...more

David Cronenberg is a filmmaker so full of ideas that he sometimes seems to have trouble coming up with a narrative framework which will support them all; at times Videodrome and eXistenZ seemed to exist more for the sake of their subtexts rather than their principle story lines. But while Spider is one of his most powerful and compelling voyages into the human psyche, it's also a rare example of a film where Cronenberg doesn't seem to have quite enough material to flesh out a full-length ...more