The Spider & the Fly

Seduction is only the beginning

Late one evening, a domineering father and his young daughter are drawn off a deserted road into a place that seems to pulse with its own hunger.

Inside, music throbs. Bodies blur. Desire hangs thick in the air. What feels at first like liberation quickly reveals itself as something more calculated, a theatre of seduction where innocence is currency and charm is a trap.

The daughter, intoxicated by attention and freedom, drifts willingly toward the magnetic host who rules this world. He offers glamour, flattery, and belonging.

Above them, unseen but not absent, the father hangs suspended, silenced, cocooned, forced to witness the slow tightening of a web he cannot break.

In this surreal fable of appetite and control, seduction is not romance. It is strategy.

The screenplay was adapted from Mary Howitt's classic poem titled The Spider & the Fly.

• Format: short film

• Genre: experimental/surreal

• Themes: seduction and manipulation, power and control, illusion and entrapment, innocence and corruption

• Content note: this film contains stylised depictions of drug use, sensual imagery, and brief scenes of physical aggression.

• Running time: 15 minutes

• Produced by: Savant Films