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True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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!

An American professor of archeology Alan Whitmore is ordered by his superiors at his university to go to Budapest.He travels there to work with another researcher and stumbles into pagan worshippers of a giant subterranean spider monsters.A crazed demonic killer is slaughtering those who stumble unto the secrets of 4000 year old cult and there seems no way out of the labyrinth."Spider Labirynth" is an eerie and very stylish homage to Italian horror as well as the film with extremely dense Lovecraftian atmosphere of terror and menace.The use of colors in "Spider Labirynth" reminds me Dario Argento's brilliant "Suspiria" and "Inferno".The special visual effects by Sergio Stivaletti are gruesome and bloody and the suspense slowly builds up.9 out of 10.Along with Michele Soavi's "Deliria" definitely the best Italian horror movie of late 80's.

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

SPIDER LABYRINTH is a late Italian Horror film, obviously inspired by the classic works of Mario Bava and Dario Argento. However, this is a classic in it's own right. A young scientist travels to Budapest to investigate the reasons for unexpected problems with a top secret project. He soon becomes, ah, entangled in the web of a sinister society... Highly recommended.