Black Widow (2005) || tt0479863
Crime | Musical | Mystery | Canada | B&W/Colour | 48min | Director: David Mortin
Cast: Sarah Slean, Martin Tielli, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Tom McCamus, Julian Richings, Jan Filips, Gary Reineke, Ian D. Clark, Dwayne Hill, Diane Fabian, Robert Fulton
A film noir-style musical telling the story of how a man met his end by getting sucked into a web of lies and deceit by a beautiful, dark-haired singer.
A severed head tells the tale of how he came to be in this unfortunate situation.
His story begins with a beautiful dark-haired woman, a classic femme fatale.
The poor man’s fate is sealed the moment their eyes meet, and he soon becomes ensnared in the beguiling predator’s web of deceit.
Black Widow stars several Canadian recording artists, including Sarah Slean, Martin Tielli, and Mary Margaret O’Hara, as well as acclaimed stage and screen actors Tom McCamus, Julian Richings and Gary Reineke. Shot in black and white in a visually expressionistic style, Black Widow is a playfully macabre homage to film noir cinema of the 1940’s.