The Black Widow

Not to be confused with the 1987 Bob Rafelson/Debra Winger thriller of the same title, the 2005 Black Widow stars Giada Colagrande as Eleanora, a woman amorously involved with the shady and eccentric Karl. When Karl dies, Eleanora embarks on a trip to his bizarre home — known as ‘The Rubber House’ — in an aggressive attempt to uncover her paramour’s darkest and strangest secrets. Once there, she becomes erotically involved with the residence’s weird caretaker, Leslie (Willem Dafoe) — little realizing that he harbors bizarre, hidden eccentricities to rival anything in Karl’s life. Colagrande directs, from an original script that she and Dafoe (real-life husband and wife) co-authored., Giada Colagrande (who co-wrote and directed) stars as a lonely Italian woman who travels to New York City to inherit a house and becomes involved in a kinky relationship with the caretaker (Willem Dafoe, who co-wrote the script with his real-life wife, Colagrande). Seymour Cassel. Also known as “Before It Had a Name.”