A technical masterwork that ranks among one of David Cronenberg’s most intricately plotted, with visual storytelling and essential symbolism. Spider‘s web falls apart when the technical side never gets to completely eclipse with the screenplay. Every scene is a slow dance to a point realized two steps in. The thriller format proves to be poor as the film never manages to attach thrills to any of its scenes due to how misaligned the plot is with the narrative. An impressive, palpably unimportant bore.