Italian Spiderman is a film parody of Italian action-adventure films of the 60s and 70s currently being developed by Alrugo Entertainment, an Australian film-making collective formed by Dario Russo, Tait Wilson, David Ashby, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky[1]. The film is a reference to foreign movies that misappropriate popular American superheroes such as: the Indian version of Superman (1987)[2], I Fantastici Tre Supermen (3 Fantastic Supermen) (1967) and La Mujer Murcielago (The Batwoman) (1968)[3].
The project began as a fake trailer for a non-existent film, produced as a student film at Flinders University[4]. The first installment of the feature film premiered across the Internet on 22nd May 2008, with further installments to follow on a weekly basis.
The film operates on the fictitious premise that Italian Spiderman was a 1968 Italian action-adventure film made by Alrugo Entertainment, which was deemed "un-viewable" by Italian distributors and never released. The story has the only 35mm print of the film being lost at sea, but recovered in the present day, thereby allowing Alrugo Entertainment to release the film through YouTube.
