How should we balance a movie’s aims and execution, when the two very evidently diverge? In dramatizing the true story of early-aughts serial killer Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), who murdered 16 sex ...

Holy Spider is about a serial killer. The film follows a man who preys on female sex workers because he believes it's his God-given duty to "wage a jihad against vice." The film's release came at a ...

That superb Swedish allegory on racism and misogyny sprang from the imagination of writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. Holy Spider is drawn from Iranian media coverage of the serial killer Saeed Hanaie. In ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say authorities have executed in public a man convicted of raping dozens of women over two decades. Wednesday’s report by the state-owned IRAN newspaper said ...

Will is a freelance writer who has been seen in a variety of print and online publications. See you at the movies. Based on the brutal true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who murdered 16 women ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Satellite television channels are widening the divide between Arabs and Iranians by airing alleged calls by Iran for revolt in Gulf states and what Tehran sees as Western-driven ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian man convicted of raping dozens of women over the past two decades has been executed in public, the country’s state media reported on Wednesday. The state-owned IRAN ...