Stumbling upon the 1988 Italian movie "Il Nido Del Ragno" (aka "The Spider Labyrinth") here in 2024, by random chance, I opted to sit down and watch the movie on account of it being a movie that I had never seen before, much less actually heard about.
I can't claim that writers Riccardo Aragno, Tonino Cervi, Cesare Frugon and Gianfranco Manfredi put together a script and storyline that was overly impressive or entertaining. Sure, it was watchable, but it felt somewhat bland and a bit pointless actually. The narrative in the movie was somewhat slow paced, and there wasn't enough of anything interesting happening throughout the course of the 87 minutes that the movie ran for, and that made it feel extraordinarily slow paced and uneventful.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here. Then again, late 1980s Italian cinema never was my thing. The acting performances in "Il Nido Del Ragno" were adequate enough, though the actors and actresses had precious little to work with in terms of an interesting script, characters and dialogue.
If you enjoy horror movies, then I wouldn't exactly recommend that you spend 87 minutes to sit through director Gianfranco Giagni's 1988 movie "Il Nido Del Ragno".
My rating of "Il Nido Del Ragno" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.
I can't claim that writers Riccardo Aragno, Tonino Cervi, Cesare Frugon and Gianfranco Manfredi put together a script and storyline that was overly impressive or entertaining. Sure, it was watchable, but it felt somewhat bland and a bit pointless actually. The narrative in the movie was somewhat slow paced, and there wasn't enough of anything interesting happening throughout the course of the 87 minutes that the movie ran for, and that made it feel extraordinarily slow paced and uneventful.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here. Then again, late 1980s Italian cinema never was my thing. The acting performances in "Il Nido Del Ragno" were adequate enough, though the actors and actresses had precious little to work with in terms of an interesting script, characters and dialogue.
If you enjoy horror movies, then I wouldn't exactly recommend that you spend 87 minutes to sit through director Gianfranco Giagni's 1988 movie "Il Nido Del Ragno".
My rating of "Il Nido Del Ragno" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.