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Spider (2002)

★ 6.6 · 928 ratings on TMDB

The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again.

Spider poster★ 6.6

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

DirectorDavid Cronenberg
CastBradley Hall, Cliff Saunders, Gabriel Byrne, Gary Reineke, John Neville, Lynn Redgrave
GenresDrama, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

Spider keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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