Holy Spider

Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who murdered sixteen women in the holy city of Mashhad between 2000 and 2001 — and was widely celebrated as a vigilante cleansing the streets of sin. Shot in secret in Jordan after being refused permission to film in Iran, Ali Abbasi constructs a chilling procedural that is really an indictment of a society's moral logic. Zar Amir Ebrahimi plays the journalist investigating the case and won Best Actress at Cannes. The horror is not the killer. The horror is how many people agreed with him.