Web of the Spider

Web of the Spider (1971, Italy/France/Germany) is a Horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti

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Main Details

• Released on August 26, 1971 (Italy)
• Color
• Running time: 109 min.
• Production Co: Produzione D.C.7 | Paris Cannes Production | Terra-Filmkunst Gmbh
• Directed by Antonio Margheriti
• Produced by Giovanni Di Addessi
• Screenplay by Bruno Corbucci, Giovanni Grimaldi
• Starring Anthony Franciosa, Klaus Kinski, Michèle Mercier
• Music by Riz Ortolani

Plot Summary

• The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ghosts of the castle search for blood to tide them over for another year. In the castle Foster meet and fall in love with Elizabeth Blackwood.

Also Known As

• (original title) Nella stretta morsa del ragno
• Belgium (video title) (Flemish title) In de greep van de spin
• Denmark Skrækuhyret slår til
• Spain (video title) Hilos de muerte
• La horrible noche del baile de los muertos
• (alternative title) Prisionero de la araña
• France (reissue title) Edgar Poe chez les morts vivants
• (reissue title) Le prisonnier de l'araignée
• Les fantômes de Hurlevent
• Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title) Sto monopati tis arahnis
• (video title) Ston isto tis arahnis
• Italy Nella stretta morsa del ragno
• Netherlands Dracula in het kasteel der verschrikking
• Sweden - Vampyrernas slott
• Turkey (Turkish title) Disi örümcegin pençesinde
• Germany (8mm release title) Dracula - Die Nacht des Grauens
• Germany - Dracula im Schloß des Schreckens
• World-wide (English title) Dracula in the Castle of Blood
• World-wide (English title) In the Grip of the Spider

Taglines

• Based on Edgar Allen Poe's "Night of the Living Dead"
• A Classic Tale of Horror!