Tarantella

Name: Tarantella
Genre: Horror
Released: 1989-09-12
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Roko Belic, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan

1989·Horror·5m

6.3

★

"Tarantella" was an early Super 8 short film directed by Christopher Nolan with his childhood friend Roko Belic. It was made in 1989 while Nolan was studying at University College London. The film aired on "Image Union," a PBS programme in Chicago. It is about the suffering of a young man while he has nightmare about spiders and demons.

Directed by Christopher Nolan and Roko Belic

darkness

spider

surreal

short film

Rank

#54 in 1989·#5654 overall

IMDB

N/A

Cast

Roko Belic

Young Man

Christopher Nolan

Man in Black

Jonathan Nolan

Man in White

Crew

Christopher Nolan

Director

Roko Belic

Director

Christopher Nolan

Writer

Roko Belic

Writer

Christopher Nolan

Editor

Roko Belic

Editor

Christopher Nolan

Director of Photography

Roko Belic

Director of Photography

Christopher Nolan

Producer

Roko Belic

Producer

Popular Reviews

213 reviews

Thomas

Christopher Nolan acting debut goes crazy

Vuria

7.0★ · 07/11/26

Having made several short student films before, I know that 5 minutes is long enough to have an actual plot and events. Tarantulla doesn't have any of that. Nolan just wanted to be weird. Is that a crime? Clearly worked in his favour!

Petter

3.0★ · 07/02/26

Kanksje en av, om ikke den mest meningsløse filmen til Christopher Nolan. Det er gøy at Christopher Nolan faktisk er skuespiller i denne. Men den hadde ikke noe ordentlig handling, jeg ble nesten ikke litt imponert. Men den var kul visuelt da, heldigvis.

A Random Guy

5.0★ · 06/21/26

Ele TEM q fazer filmes de terror

space

i cant sleep and i probably shouldn’t have watched this because it looks like my sleep paralysis 👎🏽