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| Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: *** |
After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST, British director Peter Sykes landed a job for legendary British horror production Hammer for DEMONS OF THE MIND, with more money, bigger names and continuing the psychological-horror sub-genre, only VENOM is a lot more affective...
Mostly set in a tree-shrouded, shade-soaked, shadow-splintered forest where lovely Neda Arneric (a combination of Sarah Miles and Mia Farrow) plays Anna, a nature-traipsing wild girl with an enigmatic spider tattoo on her shoulder, following bland/handsome journalist Simon Brent around until he winds up, seemingly safe in a local tavern where, once back in the forest, he has more problems connected to a gang of muscularly rural locals liken to the 60's British thriller THE SHUTTERED ROOM, only these guys are no (and there really needed someone intriguing like an) Oliver Reed...
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| Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
Making the only real problem of this otherwise decent gothic programmer the lack of anyone else charismatic enough beyond Anna or secondary seductress Sheila Allen, daughter of the resident doctor who's a Nazi that, as described in the summary, has created some sort of nerve gas using spider venom...
But all the scientific expository stuff happens so far along it really doesn't matter... making VENOM only really matter when centering on Neda Arneric's energetic prowess and sensually exploitive, ravaging beauty.
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST with Sheila Allen
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| Opening from VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST with Simon Brent
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Sheila Allen in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Simon Brent in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| From VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Neda Arneric in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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| Simon Brent in VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST |
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