Driving a motorcycle, wielding shotguns, and chain-smoking cigarettes are hardly qualities many expect from Spider-Man, and Italian Spiderman doesn't sport anything similar to the iconic Spider-Man costume. David Ashby's (credited as Franco Franchetti) interpretation of the alter-ego free Italian Spiderman has nothing to do with Marvel Comics' Peter Parker, which is part of where the film's charms lie. Marketed as a lost Spider-Man movie, Italian Spiderman was deliberately filmed as if it were a film from the 1960s or '70s. Various creators at Marvel have taken kindly to the parody, even though the film was never an official Marvel project, including Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and even Stan Lee himself was impressed, stating "Spider-Man with a mustache, maybe we should have done him this way." (via Youtube).
Created by filmmaker Dario Russo, and released in 2007, Italian Spiderman was one of the earliest independent movies to achieve viral status online, parodying the exploitation movies of the 1970s and '80s.
Despite being unlicensed by Marvel, and acting as a parody of the titular Marvel Comics character, Australian film Italian Spiderman still has an important place in Spider-Man's cinematic history.
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