Spider
Dir: David Cronenberg
2002
**
I love Spider's bleakness, I love it's simplicity. It's never in your face which highlights certain important scenes brilliantly and more importantly, disturbs more convincingly. The performances were very good, Gabriel Byrne in particular does a great job. Its not your typical David Cronenberg film, it's not in his usual style and you'd be forgiven for not realising it was his work. It is however, as beautiful as his other work, as suspenseful and is as well edited. It's quite a strange one though because, as you can see, on paper I really like it but in reality, I just couldn't get into it,it's hard to explain, it's a masterful film but it just doesn't entertain.