User reviews

The movie is well made, and Mohsen Tanabandeh's acting is good. But one negative point for the unrealistic and customized dialogue between the mullah and the killer at the end of the movie.

Going to the movies and watching Iranian films has become more of a social experience to me than an actual cultural and artistic activity. As for Ebrahim Irajzad's adaptation of the spider killings, let me tell you how disappointed I am. You can't just criticize a misogynistic and flawed system by pointing the finger at other women. When will come the time for men to just own up to their charges and shoulder the blame? Unfortunately, this is observed all throughout history. Even Shakespeare portrayed shrews deceiving men to accomplish their goals, and in this case, a mother who whispers conspiracy theories in her son's ears. I admit that Saeed Hana'ei's mom was no saint, but neither was his wife. Nor were all the people close to him. Their gender was simply irrelevant. They all shared the view that prostitutes should be eliminated, even lauded his actions afterwards. What's this cheesy monster-in-law characterization prevalent in films? This is how you attempt at fixing a false narrative? And where did that veteran background of Hana'ei's go? Like that was not at all constructive to the making of a murderer.

Another misleading point in Oktay Baraheni's (Reza Baraheni's son, the scriptwriter) narration was this: Those poor women had no other choice but to sell sex; they had mouths to feed, etc. Ergo killing them was wrong. NO! Even if they had other choices, but picked this line of job, you had no right to kill them. Iranian filmmakers claim to be fighting the corrupt, immoral, and inhuman system, but they eventually end up helping that very corruption by taking the middle ground when it comes to sensitive issues.

An untrue and completely custom movie! The documentary made about this criminal clearly shows that the majority, including the killer's family, supported his actions. These are the results of rotten thinking that has been prevalent in the Middle East for many years and can even be seen in 2022.

Mohsen Tanabandeh acting was good, I somehow remembered Robert De Niro youth!

I think this film is the best film in the history of Iranian movie .because they speak about something that was taboo and in Iran we see most people are in illusion that they are God and should kill people in the way of God.

The film was very good, but some of the dialogues were not related to that time (I mean the words of the update that were used) because the main story of Maleh is twenty years ago and in Iran, the opinions of the people at that time were 80 to 20 (these crimes ) And the further we went, the better the opinions became, and now it has reached about 60 to 40.