Netflix does not stop launching new productions that quickly become all the rage on the platform, as recently happened with The Spider’s Head, an intrigue and science fiction production that is among the most chosen.

The Netflix movie that just premiered and is all the rage: starring Chris Hemsworth
The Spider’s Head is a science fiction film that lasts one hour and 47 minutes. It stars the popular actor Chris Hemsworth, was scripted by the same creators of Deadpool, and is based on a story by George Saunders.

This film tells the story of a prisoner housed in a jail who has a scientist who specialized in testing drugs on detainees in a remote and state-of-the-art penitentiary.

Synopsis of The Spider’s Head, Netflix’s furious movie

The official description of this production summarizes: “A prisoner in a high-tech prison begins to question the purpose of the drugs to control the emotions that he is testing for a pharmaceutical genius”.

Cast of The Spider’s Head, the film that breaks it on Netflix

Chris Hemsworth
Miles Teller
Jurnee Smollett
Mark Paguio
Tess Haubrich
Angie Milliken
Stephen Tongun

Chris Hemsworth began a professional relationship with Netflix in ‘Tyler Rake’ and it seems that he has taken a liking to collaborating with the platform. We recently saw him making a cameo in ‘Interceptor’ and ‘Tyler Rake 2’ is in full post-production. Also, this Friday, June 17, he returns to the world of direct streaming releases with ‘Spiderhead’.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, currently very fashionable for his great work on ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Spiderhead’ is the adaptation of a science fiction short story written by George Saunders, but also a movie that almost seems like the perfect example of a project that could go ahead when the restrictions due to the coronavirus were especially harsh.

Spiderhead barely has a handful of characters and only three end up having real weight in the plot beyond a specific scene. In addition, it takes place almost entirely in a closed space, which helps to have everything under control. That’s all good, but the problem is when you have to do something with the striking premise from which it starts beyond its presentation.

The film was written by Rhet Reese and Paul Wernick, the same duo behind the script for ‘Deadpool’, which takes us to an isolated center where some inmates have agreed to undergo a series of experiments consisting of taking drugs that alter their emotions. The first few minutes of footage are the best in that direction, even flirting with a certain presence of humor to underline the particularity of the situation these volunteers face.

As an addition, we have Hemsworth at the forefront of these experiments, who here has the opportunity to show his most playful side -although in return his intentions are too obvious from the start-. And it shows that the protagonist of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ is having a good time, but there comes a point where the way of tackling the enigmas of Spiderhead loses steam, he turns on the same ideas and when he puts all the cards on the table It’s been a long time since we were clear that the story was going in that direction.