The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 59 min | 2,54 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 59 min | 2,54 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writer: Eric Taylor (original screenplay)
Stars: Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant
Gale Sondergaard (The Mark of Zorro) returns as the sinister Spider Woman, a role she originated as the femme fatale Adrea Spedding in the Sherlock Holmes whodunit The Spider Woman. In this non-canonical spin-off, she is even more diabolical as Zenobia Dollard, a wealthy blind woman shrouded in mystery. Jean (Brenda Joyce, Jane in several Tarzan films) is hired as Zenobia's caretaker after all the preceding caretakers vanish without a trace. She becomes entangled in a web of horror as she discovers that her employer, aided by a hideously deformed household servant played by legendary creeper Rondo Hatton (The Pearl of Death), has used the blood of her predecessors to create a death serum when it is mixed with spider venom – and that her own blood is now being harvested at night, while she is in a drugged sleep, to continue the experiment.
Veteran director Arthur Lubin (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) delivers a terrifying tale chock-full of bizarre blood-drinking plants, old-dark-house spookiness and the wickedness of the Spider Woman!
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Audio Commentary by Film Historians Tom Weaver and David Schecter (2021)
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