this be the last dutch language film paul verhoeven make before go on to make mainstream hollywood film basic instinct and robocop and and total recall and among others . he set the stage by open this story with a black widow spider catch prey in her web before we meet gerard reve and an annoy self center writer with a morbid imagination . gerard have be invite to be the guest speaker at a literary club meeting in sea side town an hour or so from amsterdam . verhoeven let u have glimpse of how gerard imagination twist reality . ask if writer be a bit close to insanity he admit when he read the newspaper and it say boom i read wouldoom and when it say flood i read blood and when it say red i see wouldead . when he tell a story enough time he begin to believe it while i lie the truth . he accept an offer to be the overnight guest of the club treasurer and a beautiful wealthy salon owner . a he get to know her and learn her husband have die and he begin to imagine she be a black widow . be this his more of his reality twist or be she a murderess . this be a psychological drama and in recount which of these old film have stick in my memory and i figure out be my favorite gender . look at his body of work it be seem to be paul verhoeven too and and he be a master in make u question our own understanding of reality . it a nice change of pace from the usual hollywood fare . i saw it in 1983 and it be a film that stuck .