Spider (film): Difference between revisions

* [[And That Little Girl Was Me]]: That we're seeing a [[Flash Back]] isn't made apparent until we see Adult Spider repeat and eventually pre-empt Boy Spider's lines.

* [[Award Snub]]: Despite almost universal praise from critics, the film was ignored at Cannes and the Oscars.

* [[Double Entendre]]: A staple of Yvonne's [[Sarcasm Mode|highly cultured conversation]].

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Spider is taken back to the asylum after nearly killing his landlady. But he appears to be starting to come to terms with the fact he killed his own mother.}}

* [[Funny Schizophrenia]] / [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: Averted; this is a ''very'' anti-Hollywood portrayal of mental illness.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: This was the film that marked Cronenberg's transition from [[Body Horror]] to intense psychological drama that would later be seen in ''[[A History of Violence]]'' and ''[[Eastern Promises]]''.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dennis Cleg is nicknamed Spider by his mother because he likes to make webs with string. The movie is the story of his mental web being constructed and simultaneously unravelled.

* [[Mind Screw]]: [[Foregone Conclusion|It's a Cronenberg film]].