Micro Queers: Anapidae (Call Me) (2025)

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4.7 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Arachnophobes beware: we're discussing writer/director Mathieu Morel's 44 minute film Anapidae (Call Me), which is about an unusual graveyard caretaker who befriends the grieving widow of his dead lover.

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0:00.0	We're gonna carry on and plan the sequel, because let's face it, baby, these days, you gotta have the sequel. And welcome back to Micro Queers.
0:27.8	It's our sporadic queer horror movie Roundup, and I'm Joe.
0:31.5	And I'm Trace, and we are discussing Matthew Morell's Anna Paday, parentheses, call me, close parentheses.
0:40.7	A movie about, I'm going to say grief and a parasitic spider.
0:45.5	Yeah, I have questions about whether or not this spider is real.
0:50.3	Yeah, this whole, I was going to call it a short, but it's about 40 minutes long. So it's like between a short and a feature, what is the novella of a film? It's just that. You've just named it. Yeah, it's the novella of a film. This is very art-housy to me. So I did view the spider as a metaphor. Yes. And I think you're right. This is principally about grief.
1:12.3	It's about somebody who can't let go.
1:14.6	Well, actually, several characters who can't let go.
1:17.2	But yeah, folks, this is mostly notable because it is produced by one Jan Gonzalez,
1:23.4	who of course, spoke should recognize from Knife Plus Heart,
1:27.4	a.k.a. the best queer film of the century.
1:31.2	Yes, director of that. I believe he also wrote it as well. So, yeah, I think when we saw his name come across our email, we were like, oh, jump at this opportunity to watch this film.
1:39.4	And it is, I mean, it is horror like. There are definitely horror elements to it. But at the end of the day, I mean, this is what thislike. There are definitely horror elements to it.
1:44.4	Sure.
1:44.9	At the end of the day, I mean, like, this is what this movie is about, everyone.
1:47.2	So we have a man named Meno, played by Thomas Dukas.
1:50.4	He is the gatekeeper at a secluded village cemetery where he lovingly cares for the dead,
1:55.4	visiting mourners, and also inexplicably a giant spider.
1:59.9	So when the eccentric Maya, played by Julie Morel, appears, the pair are drawn to one another
2:05.3	by the ghosts of a man, Noe, played by Fabian Burtad, a man they once loved.
2:11.3	The movie is kind of, like, not really divided in the chapters, but we get these inner
2:15.7	titles of what seems to be a mortician's
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