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MAG 110 - Creature Feature
The Magnus Archives
Dexter Banks' Obsession With the Japanese Spider Movie
Dexter Banks had a minor obsession with the Japanese spider movie that may or may not have ever existed. He called it widows weave, and while the script pages he brought were apparently based on this unnamed book of his, the shots were drawn from his memories of the first film version. Once production started, Dexter became secretive and jumpy. The crew were mostly regulars he'd worked with before, but weirdly for him he seemed to take almost no interest in casting at all. For all he kept telling me about how this was his dream project that he was electrified to finally be making, he seemed to have almost entirely checked out of the process of actually making it.
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