Alternative title: The Legend of Spider Forest
“They say I’m dangerous.
If anyone touches me, the
spiders come. Does that
frighten you?”
Somewhere in the middle of a convoluted story of Nazi scientists and stolen paintings is the tale of a feral girl in a forest who believes she’s cursed – any man who touches her will be set upon by incredibly venomous spiders and killed instantly.
As such, whenever she gets close to anyone they die a horrible death, which has caused her to adopt an increasingly outcast life that strengthens the superstitious feelings of the local townspeople.
Like a female version of Martin, she has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, preferring to die with her mad doctor father in a laboratory fire than to escape with the chance of a normal life.
This is the debut feature (if you don’t count the hour-long psychedelic satire The Committee) of Peter Sykes, who subsequently made Demons of the Mind and To The Devil a Daughter.
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