this combo of favourite italian giallo supernaturale aesthetic and lovecraftian wierd or cosmic terror plot while il nido del ragno or the spider labyrinth deserve far more attention . prof. alan whitmore while a standard lovecraftian man of science ( haunt by a childhood experience of be lock in a closet with a strangely sentient spider seemingly watch him from it web ) and be co coordinator of the intectus project which be study an ancient mysterious and world span cult . sent to budapest and hungary to recall data obtain by colleague and prof. whitmore be send into the vortex of madness a the hideous truth of his childhood nightmare spin a web of the great horror . my first knowledge of the spider labyrinth come from travis crawford review in the eyeball compendium and a other reviewer here have point out this film be easily obtainable on boot leg and but cry out for a good dvd release . gianfranco giagni have certainly craft a classic and beautifully merge the cinematic supernaturalism of mario bava ( kill and baby kill . and lisa and the devil ) and dario argento ( suspiria and inferno ) and lucio fulci ( the beyond and manhattan baby ) with the literary plot work of h. p. lovecraft ( the call of the cthulhu and the whisperer in darkness and the dunwich horror and and the piece which inspire lovecraft arthur machen novel of the black seal ) .