Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

kclipper Here's an Italian virtuoso giallo horror film shot entirely in Budapest for maximum effect regarding mood and atmospheric tension. Professor Alan Whitmore is sent to the Hungarian town by his most distinguished colleagues to unlock the key to a mysterious project after his predecessor has a lapse in communication. Whitmore gladly accepts the task, unbeknown to the facts of whats to come. There he meets his beautiful guide, Genevieve (Paola Rinaldi) and a handful of strange locals who do not seem to be very welcoming. After his colleague is found murdered, the professor is taken on a spiral journey into a bizarre and intricate world dealing with a murderous sect that seems to be related to some sort of spider-God. This combines many fantastical elements including; bloody murders by a maniacal spider-like vampire woman, strange tattoos, spectacular set designs, sexual intrigue and just about every ingredient that makes up the classic Italian-horror cinematic achievement in all its wonder and originality including the classic H.P. Lovecraft weirdness and imagery. Horror special effects buffs will love the final moments of this underrated film as the ending is quite satisfying indeed, and if you find spiders giving you the 'creepy crawlies', then this one might get under your skin for sure! The only con to this is a slow-to-go pace and a weak male lead character, at least up until its bravado ending. Behold, rare Italian thriller buffs, this is one for your collection!

jrd_73 A professor sent to Italy to check on a reclusive colleague finds himself in a world whose reality seems less and less certain. That's about all one needs to know about the plot. Most Italian horror is mood driven not plot focused. The Spider Labyrinth certainly owes a debt to Dario Argento. We have a mystery, a sect, a hotel with strange residents, and the unsettling feeling that the protagonist left reality behind the moment he stepped off the airplane. The world of the film is one of magic, just like in Suspiria or Inferno, yet the film does not fall into the trap of being a rip-off of those films. Only one scene, the murder of a maid in a room with hanging sheets, suffers from being overly familiar. Otherwise, the film has the feel of an Argento film without coming across as theft. While The Spider Labyrinth is not without problems (some hokey FX; an at times easy to predict plot), it seems more daring and evocative than Mother of Tears, Argento's last Three Mothers film. I am surprised by how little attention the film has gotten in the U.S. even with horror film fans like myself.

cynical_666 I just got the import Midnight Video bootleg/USA Public Domain Release of the film. I must say I've been at this since I was 10 years old...watching horror films...reading Fango...searching for those lost treasures...after years of seeing horror films everything starts to blur and become the same old thing...stories retold, murders recreated..scares duplicated...Basically, you realize that there is not much new or novel out there...ghosts, monsters, zombies...psychos...that's about all. Spyder Labrythn is the first film in years that I can say caught me off guard and drew me in...It is this weird mix of Suspiria and The Beyond...but where The Beyond was stupid...story wise and in presentation...this film was not and where Suspiria dragged in parts of the narrative for the illusion of suspense...Spyder Labrynth doesn't. A beautifully simple tale of a professor sent to Budapest to investigate the lost communication of his colleague only to get drawn into the madness of the town and the secret it's people are protecting. The film is not predictable...the effects are gruesome and amazing and it has this claustrophobic eeriness that has only recently been recaptured by The Descent...A must see for any Horror Fan...it's a shame the film is Public Domain and will never get a decent release...

pumaye Not really bad Italian production of the late Eighties, with a story of an ancient religion of a spider-god survived till our days in a ghostly photographed Budapest. A few scenes are well done (like the death of a maid similar to one of the finest scene in Argento's Suspiria) or evocative (like the nightmarish underground voyage of the American professor in the spider nest, full of human remains), while the major faults of the movie are in the dialogues and in the fact that a good idea is wasted in a too derivative ending