Review of Holy Spider (2022) by Elizabeth Weitzman for TheWrap — 27 Oct 2022

Bajestani is believably repellent as someone whose split lives as an obsessive loner and respected family man are disturbingly concordant. And Nadim Carlsen’s gritty camerawork pushes the film’s sense of grim social realism further still, providing a viscerally authentic horror.

Abbasi doesn’t seem to realize, though, that he’s creating much of that horror himself.