Spider (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Nash Edgerton |
| Produced by | Nicole O'Donohue |
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David Michôd Nash Edgerton |
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Joel Edgerton Mirrah Foulkes Nash Edgerton |
| Music by | Ben Lee |
| Cinematography | Greig Fraser |
| Edited by | Luke Doolan Nash Edgerton |
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| Distributed by | IndieFlix Apparition (USA) |
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9 min |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Spider is a 2007 Australian black comedy short film directed by Nash Edgerton and written by David Michôd and Nash Edgerton. The film had its world premiere in competition at the Sydney Film Festival on 17 June 2007. After that the film compete at number of film festivals and later theatrically released with Edgerton's feature-film The Square.
Consummate joker Jack plays a prank on his girlfriend Jill that goes too far. But like mum said, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."
The film earned mainly positive reviews from critics. Jason Sondhi of short of the week gave film the positive review said "It’s for sure a superior film, I just think I loved everything about it except the parts that I assume everyone loves." David Brook of blue print review gave the film four out of five stars and said "A simple one-gag comedy-short that works surprisingly well due to some accomplished naturalistic direction and performances. A nice touch at the end, although unnecessary, went down well with the audience too." Wesley Morris of Boston.com said that "as well-delivered as its shocks are, this film is cleverness in the service of cruelty."
Spider was released on DVD with The Square, on 24 August 2010.
Edgerton directed a follow up of Spider, a short film entitled Bear which was released in 2011.
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