Venom

1971
PG
1 Std. 31 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.

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4,6/10

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Wissenswertes
The print on the wall above Greville's bed depicting a mutilated man impaled on the branch of a broken tree is from Goya's "Disasters of War" series. The triptych that Greville finds in the woods contains a crude copy of the man-eating bird from the right hand panel of Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights".

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Huber: Mr. Greville, superstition also breeds in the forest. There have been many stories and, I'm afraid, some tragic events. Death!
Paul Greville: Oh?
Huber: You didn't know? Accidents, apparently. But nonetheless tragic; nonetheless mysterious.
Paul Greville: How?
Huber: A strange sort of paralysis, unless there were spiders crawling all over the body. Well, you can't blame the simpler people here from digging into their memories of folklore, attributing the cause of death to the Spider Goddess.
Paul Greville: Oh, Herr. Huber, you're no simple peasant. What sort of junk are you trying to feed me? Anna, I suppose, is the spider Goddess?
Huber: It's what the people believe. I have no cause to prove it either way. Wasn't it your English poet who said, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of"?

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Referenced in No Easy Rides: Ken Rowles' Life in Filmmaking (2024)

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7/10

'Venom' brings a terrifyingly vivid meaning to the phrase 'better dead than web'!

The palpably flawed, but nonetheless entertaining 'Venom' remains a deliciously odd, avidly arachnophobe triggering Brit-horror curiosity. Partly shot in what handsomely appears to be the eerily bucolic Bavarian mountains, 'Venom' tells the bizarrely esoteric tale of the deadly mysterious man eating 'Spider Woman! This memorably malign mistress of multi-legged misanthropy is excitingly played with vulpine verisimilitude by the delectable starlet, Nada Arneric! An increasing number of libidinous young men have been inexplicably expiring whilst traversing the horror haunted forest. Are their obscure sudden deaths solely due to the dastardly machinations of the nubile nymph, Arneric? Or are there far more preternaturally sinister forces at work? 'Venom' even throws in a ubiquitously loony, medically deviated German scientist for some additionally lurid interest! Peter Sykes's mythologically muddled mishmash of hallucinatory 1970s Brit-horror kookiness brings a terrifyingly vivid meaning to the phrase 'better dead than web'!