A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.
- Villager in Tavern
- (uncredited)
- Villager in Tavern
- (uncredited)
- Villager in Tavern
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe print on the wall above Greville's bed depicting a mutilated man impaled on the branch of a broken tree is from Goya's "Disasters of War" series. The triptych that Greville finds in the woods contains a crude copy of the man-eating bird from the right hand panel of Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights".
- Quotes
Huber: Mr. Greville, superstition also breeds in the forest. There have been many stories and, I'm afraid, some tragic events. Death!
Paul Greville: Oh?
Huber: You didn't know? Accidents, apparently. But nonetheless tragic; nonetheless mysterious.
Paul Greville: How?
Huber: A strange sort of paralysis, unless there were spiders crawling all over the body. Well, you can't blame the simpler people here from digging into their memories of folklore, attributing the cause of death to the Spider Goddess.
Paul Greville: Oh, Herr. Huber, you're no simple peasant. What sort of junk are you trying to feed me? Anna, I suppose, is the spider Goddess?
Huber: It's what the people believe. I have no cause to prove it either way. Wasn't it your English poet who said, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of"?
Venom otherwise known as Spider Venom otherwise known as The Legend of Spider Forest is a curious little tale that I suppose would be horror, but just barely.
It tells an absolute mess of a story that revolves around a painter visiting a small town, a mysterious girl who lives in the forest who the locals call the spider queen and a Nazi conspiracy to weaponize spider venom.
It all sounds fairly interesting but the delivery is awful, worse than I could actually put into words. Sure the cast are competent enough, but they can't save a movie with the writing quality of a Sharknado (2013) film.
Venom is one of those titles I get the impression IMDB do not have the full brief on. It claims this is UK made and filmed exclusively in England but the movie comes across dubbed, has some foreign cast and some of the scenery is certainly not British.
I really wanted to like this but by about the half way point came to the conclusion that simply wasn't going to happen (And I wasn't wrong).
It looks the part, it's well acted and the concept is there but the writing is so appallingly bad it leaves the movie DOA.
The Good:
Neda Arneric
Some very interesting ideas
The Bad:
Plot is an unfettered mess
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Men simply shouldn't wear scarves of any description
- Platypuschow
- Sep 4, 2018
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Spider's Venom
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- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1