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In an extended review and analysis of the new Persian language horror Holy Spider, Martin Jameson queries some of the tenets of horror film making.

This isn’t horror as storytelling, it’s horror as confrontation, and it poses its own particular challenges. However the detail has been fictionalised, Saeed Hanaei’s victims were real people, so does that mean the film maker has different and more complex responsibilities in dramatizing what happened to them? Is it asking something exceptional of the audience as well; demanding that we think very carefully about how we respond to it?

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