***Web of the Lovely Spider Woman in the Black Forest*** Released in 1971 (but not until '75 in America), this English flick is known by several names: "Spider's Venom," "The Legend of Spider Forest" or simply "Venom." It's a mystery/horror about an artist (Simon Brent) who stumbles upon a village with secrets in the Black Forest, Germany: A beautiful redhead frolics the local woods and seemingly leads men to their deaths, but people in the hamlet only willingly speak of the matter in hushed tones late at night when the fires burn low. The tangled web includes lethal spiders, neurotoxin and…
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