{"id":43899,"date":"2024-05-22T19:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43899"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:39:37","slug":"the-spider-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/22\/the-spider-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spider (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-tc2YlCqCk?si=0Brhnzm1Y90bRmHV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Andy Chen\u2019s \u201cThe Spider\u201d could be appreciated as a multiverse interpretation where the story of Spider-Man is not about a superhero but a body horror tragedy. \u201cThe Spider\u201d is basically \u201cSpider-Man\u201d as told by David Cronenberg and takes all the basics of Peter Parker\u2019s tale and transforms it in to a gruesome genre hybrid. With the excellent prosthetics and make up from Alen Stubbs, he and Chandler Riggs help to realize a slick and entertaining take on Spider-Man that is pitch black in tone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What\u2019s more is there\u2019s the implication that nothing in this Marvel verse has resulted in the fantasy superhero tales we\u2019ve grown up with. Everything has a terrible and blood soaked result. Star Chandler Riggs is very good in the role of Peter Parker, the high school student bitten by an experimental spider. After his fated turn of events, he begins to experience a metamorphosis that is less than spectacular. Although he can crawl on walls and jump high ledges, he also begins to lose body parts, spew from various orifices and even has an insatiable hunger he can\u2019t quite put his finger on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe Spider\u201d is a fun and sick twisted take on the Spider-Man lore with its tongue planted firmly in cheek. There are a lot of allusions to this universe included in the nine minutes with a peek at this universe\u2019s J. Jonah, and even Gwen Stacy. Thankfully \u201cThe Spider\u201d doesn\u2019t skimp on the pay off with wonderful looks at the effects, much of which look like excellent combinations of traditional make up and some well placed digital enhancements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe Spider\u201d is a fun and grotesque fan film in the vein of the Cronenberg\u2019s \u201cThe Fly\u201d and I had a good time with it. It\u2019s short and sweet, and I hope we can see more from director Andy Chen very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Chen\u2019s \u201cThe Spider\u201d could be appreciated as a multiverse interpretation where the story of Spider-Man is not about a superhero but a body horror tragedy. \u201cThe Spider\u201d is basically \u201cSpider-Man\u201d as told by David Cronenberg and takes all the basics of Peter Parker\u2019s tale and transforms it in to a gruesome genre hybrid. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[345,477,501,906,938,964],"class_list":["post-43899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-fan-film","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43901,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43899\/revisions\/43901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}