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Director: Peter Sykes
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Shelved for nearly five years after completion (reputedly for tax reasons), this was Sykes' feature debut: not - contrary to appearances in an opening sequence involving nude bathing and a mysterious nymph - sexploitation but a spirited horror/adventure movie. The script, about mysterious goings-on in a Bavarian forest (with the hero tangling with a supposed spider goddess, murderous villagers, and evilly-experimenting Nazis) is full of holes; but the action remains tautly visual, and the direction is imaginative enough to gloss over the worst narrative clichés.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Sykes
Producer: Michael Pearson, Kenneth F Rowles
Cast: Simon Brent, Neda Arneric, Derek Newark, Sheila Allen, Gerard Heinz, Gertan Klauber full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 91 mins
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