COBWEB (The Spider Beast) EXPLORED
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- Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained. As requested today we’ll be exploring Cobweb, the recently released horror film written by Chris Thomas Devlin and directed by Samuel Bodin.
Starring Woody Norman, Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr and Caroline Coleman, Cobweb revolves around the young Peter, who discovers a perturbing tapping noise from within his walls that begins to torment him. Unfortunately, sharing the new discovery and its impact on him with his delightfully eccentric parents Carol and Mark, gives him no comfort. It's the stuff of childhood nightmares, yet his parents brush it off as a mere figment of his overactive imagination.
As the eerie echoes persist, Peter's conviction strengthens, pushing him on a journey of familial discovery. Unearthing some dark revelations, it becomes clear that his guardians might also be custodians of a sinister secret. Through Bodin's trademark lens, we're served a tantalizing cocktail of childhood scars, the perils of parental overreach, and monsters they can create.
In this video, we’re going to explore the story, the characters and the meaning of its ending.
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This is another one of those situations that could've been solved by some communication. If the parents just told him "your sister is a deceitful spider monster, she's going to kill us, you, and everyone around if she gets out" I'm sure he would've been a bit more hesitant on letting the his arachnid sister out
Yeah but then the movie would have been 2 minutes long lol.
Oh yeah..., exactly what you tell a 10-year old who's freaked out by a knocking coming from his bed room wall.
I guess some people just don't have a parental bone in their body.
@@kiillabytez what’s the alternative? Don’t tell him and get him and yourself killed
@@livid_spidersoundproof the kid's room. Move the spider kid into a separate building. If the spider kid can't be safely moved without risking life and limb, you'll have to go Old Yeller on it.
@@Hawk7886I don't think the parents believed the girl was able to get out of her pit. It may have worked better if they hinted or showed this directly for some people. Sarah says she taught herself to climb and other tricks. The mother had keys and every door was locked down. The house was ran like a prison because it was a prison.
I have a feeling that Antony is going to have a hard time shaking off the homelander persona. I certainly hope it doesn’t though, he’s phenomenal
Have you seen him in the show "Banshee"??
I watched it after seeing "The Boys." He's pretty good and doesn't seem typecast as Homelander. Of course the show was before he did "The Boys."
Antony is a wonderful actor and people are better at separating the character from the actor (look at what happened to the kid who played Joffery in GOT).
I have doubt he will be typecast as an evil psychopathic superman lol.
You think it's Homelander but it's just him. Minus the psychosis and super powers
I mean...if you saw Banshee watching The Boys is way weirder than you'd think. He'll be fine I think.
His fans will have a hard time to stop seeing him as homlander...
“He doesn’t have a violent bone in his body”
Said the mother of every mass murderer, serial killer, etc.
You mean, said the child murdering egg donor.
in all fairness tho i think that is because most serial killers or mass killers are ether very protective and loyal to family or very dominant and abusive to their family none really fall in the middle like normal people do it''s normally one of those extreme's so i imagine alot of the mother's who say that do actually believe it.
I didn’t believe Sarah when she said her parents killed the trick-or-treating girl - I thought she presented a false version of what really happened as part of her plan to manipulate Peter. It seemed to me that Sarah actually killed the girl, then the parents buried the body in the back yard to cover it up, and then that’s when they locked Sarah away (to keep her from doing that sort of thing again)- was I way off?
That was also my interpretation. Despite being emotionally abusive and distant, Peter's parents weren't really physically abusive so it didn't make sense they would just straight kill a girl rather than just leave town, imo.
You are probably right to not believe Sarah. It is clear that she is in fact a monster, who kills with glee and with a clear resentment for her "normal" brother. Why wouldn't she manipulate him into believing that their parents were the killer? It is completely within her M.O. to do this and she was likely the killer of the little girl as well.
The only difference between your interpretation and mine I think, is that I think that she was locked away sooner than the murder of the child. I think Sarah was really a monster from the beginning. That at first her parents tried to hide her away but just kept her at home, until it became clear that they couldn't hold her due to her aggressive nature. So, they put her in the basement. This might have worked for a while but something happened that made them decide that they needed the hole. Perhaps a measure to put her there when she was too erratic, some sort of time-out pit. Until everything went horribly wrong on Halloween Eve and she escaped. She escaped and killed a little girl. But a parent can't give up on their child, they couldn't give their daughter to the authorities, so they did what any "good parent" would and covered it all up... They literally buried their shame and their daughter was now placed inside the walls of the house, a place that she wouldn't be able to escape from on her own. (Though she did try, the bleeding wound on her fathers arm is proof of that). And that's how I interpret it all. The parents weren't killers if you ask me, they were just ill-equiped to deal with a daughter like Sarah...
i believe she killed the girl and they covered it up.
You are spot on
I’m pretty sure they did kill her because she saw his sister and they were trying to hide her from the world.
It was hard to get rid of that "Homelander" feel at first but then it was just gone and I fully enjoyed Antony's performance. In fact - every single performance in this film was great. The movie was really cool and creepy, full of unsettling atmosphere and good soundtrack. Will definitely re-watch in the future.
This was surprisingly a breath of fresh air. A very good modern-day horror movie. And It actually came out of nowhere. Decent popcornflix.
Listen Antony Starr gives me so much anxiety he truly brings so much tension and unease in his characters. Amazing actor. Seeing him in this with dark hair and facial hair, I think this is the first time I can see someone else, him, playing as wolverine if they do have to replace the character soon some day, unless they go the younger route
Physically deformed child aside, the parents were awful people. This is confirmed by the way they treated Peter, who had no physical deformities. The parents were very cold, controlling, dismissive & lacked empathy. One could argue that their characteristics are the results of dealing with their daughter. But what they decided to do with their daughter after discovery her deformity tells me all I need to know about them
I'm guessing she killed the missing kid so they're hiding her to prevent her from doing it again.
I would've hated my daughter if she killed kids y'know
I know! And if they were better parents, then Peter may have been more hesitant to let Sarah out
Yeah, not releasing this on Halloween is actually a crazy unfortunate call, this movie deserves a lot more attention. Hopefully a cult following can give it some much deserved appreciation. New ideas that actually have love and effort put in feel like a rare breed these days, here's hoping for more
This movie was absolutely awful. The pacing was terrible, the twist was weak, plot made no sense, huge questions unanswered, and probably the worst ending Ive seen to a movie in years.
@@Fresh-Spence that's sad that you completely missed all that. Maybe, you should stick to movies like "Barbie".
@@matthewbyrd398 Not even a similar movie. Terrible suggestion.
The best part of the movie was Sarah's voice. From kinda innocent to this bitter anger, her true voice at the end of the movie
This man makes amazing content that scares the fuck out of me. Keep it up. You’re a great lad.
Thanks brother :)
It's cool watching real life monsters cover for their failed initiation and assimilation tactics
@@filmcomicsexplainedNo, thank YOU for having such a terrific TH-cam Channel!
One of the scariest horror films of the year maybe even decade. It’s a phycological thriller playing against your very fears . Nothing is what you expect until there’s nothing left but you cowering alone in an empty house stowed away in a dark room staring down an empty hallway through an open door between what you know is there and what you wish really wasn’t . Until the footsteps you’ve been hiding from reach your bedside . It’s a beautiful ride .
The fact that the sister told Peter about the girl makes it sketchy the parents did it and it was most likely the sister and her instinct to kill.
The smirk when they bring it up at the table belies the truth that it was the parents who killed the girl.
@@itzybitzyspyder
More that they know who killed her and how uneasy the son feels about his parents.
@@itzybitzyspyder lol no
I thought Peter did it
Overbearing parents that are equally as emotionally distant we have I heard this before?
Of fricking course this is uploaded when I'm going to bed.😳
Sweet dreams.😱
Hehe
I have been subscribed to your channel since high school, and I worked on this film. So to see it on your channel is absouletly wild!!! Keep up the great work!!
The actor who plays Peter's father, Mark, seemed familiar to me, but it wasn't until I heard him speak a bit that I was able to place him. The fact he doesn't have blond hair threw me off, but yes, that voice... funny how such a mild sounding voice can be so menacing!
Debra Wilson voicing Sarah’s monster voice is scary. There are a lot of people out there who know that voice, and Debra can get scary if she wants to.
The same Debra Wilson from MadTV?
@@Iron-Bridge yes, that Debra Wilson
Jesus, I truly had no idea, even after watching several times and viewing the credits. Fantastic vocal work.
This is my favorite channel for content review. You pick background music that sets the tones of film, cover the psychology behind the writing and implementation, and cover everything in linear and organized manner. Keep up the good work!
I just saw this film a week ago, not bad except that since it takes place in Halloween season feels like it would have been more fitting for an October release. And it kind of remided me of an episode from earlier Treehouse of Horror of The Simpsons. ( This film is definitely something I wouldn't show to people afraid of spiders or contorsionists.
There are people afraid of flexible people?
@@Hawk7886 believe It or not yes, I have seen people who really felt uncomfortable.
@@Hawk7886Im not afraid of contortionists but a lot of them acting like being a dingbat is an art makes me unreasonably hate them. Its like freestyle jazz by someone that just picked up a trumpet that day.
I’m afraid of spiders. This movie didn’t help.
Just get vaxxed, it kinda protects against spiders
I feel that, on a spiritual level..
The movie is titled Cobweb...
Are you afraid of other arachnids and/or insects as well?
@@Aygostfaceprobably just spiders since other arachnids are cools looking
Cool, I've always wanted to learn what the movie was about. Ill be getting it on Blu Ray in October. I even heard that this is a very messed up movie
Wonderful to see a more original take on the spider monster trope. Usually it's just a vilification of wild animals that naturally avoid us. This added an interesting twist in that monster is a deformed young woman with incredible abilities, much like how Oswald Cobblepot was in the Batman Returns film. Some times the easiest way to create monsters, is to breed them in the belly of a monster who looks normal on the outside but has a soul as evil as sin.
Spiders? Meh.
But Australian Spiders? “BRING IT ON!” Joe Swanson
Saw this movie and pretty cool. That kid is an awesome actor.
How do the walls contain this spider-human, who is supernaturally strong. I can break through my walls by hand, can't she just claw her way through the sheetrock?
Yeah plus feeding her and having a bathroom issue. I think the whole family must be some sort of supernatural, the parents were pretty homocidal and their daughter was not just malformed but some sort of super creature.
She could. She chooses not to.
@@eryqeryq but why tho?
@@ZacharyBrandprobably just to mess with Peter, just torturing him mentally, you know?
Homelander did such a good job in this movie resisting the urge to kill and use his powers
Great work, man! Keep it up ❤️
Aww Thank you brother! :)
Oh those secrets in the walls they just won't keep quiet.
This is reminiscent of The Boy. You think Brahms is haunting the doll and thus the house, but he's actually living in the walls!
I liked the film but it suffered by not giving any real explanation why his parents apparently had a supernatural spider child. Plus the ambigious ending was frustrating.
Thank you I feel like this movie was just missing a lot of important information and just left me scratching my head at the end
literally scratchnig my head ssooo hard rn lol yes it was a scary & anxiety provioking ut the whole defomred daughter narrative is kinda lame & makes no sense
@@crazykitten4845
She's not Supernatural, just malformed.
Pls make a video on A Nightmare on Elm Street
Maybe if you were transparent with your children, they wouldn’t be forced to seek outside help
Or don’t ignite their cries for help
It's a movie.....
Gotta watch this now!
Excellent video Niyat 👌
Brilliant!
I believe that thematically the movie is about anxiety. As the abuse against the child worsens, his anxiety increases until he eventually becomes a paranoid schizophrenic. I think the sister represents the thoughts swirling in the child’s mind.
From the beginning, we know he hears a tapping noise on his wall and he may hear the noises, but his reaction is over the top. He catastrophizes over the noises, even being so afraid that he dreams his mother is making the noises and attempts to kill him in the middle of the night. These aren’t just dreams, they are the manifestation of his thoughts. He really believes that this could be a possible explanation for the noises and that’s how anxiety can affect a person, especially a young and imaginative child.
Throughout the movie the abuse from his parents become worse and this leads him to become even more fearful and anxious. The abuse from his parents is nothing to scoff at and has been going on for years. After they lock him in the basement, his sister talks to him and tells him they are going to kill them. However, we see that while they are abusive parents, they have no intention of actually physically harming their child. It’s not the threat of physical violence that makes him act, it’s the emotional trauma. The boy knows that his parents are the source of his anxiety. Through his sister, which may represent a deprived extension of himself, he rationalizes that they have to die for his suffering to end. In this way, his sister may just be a person his mind invented to justify committing such a terrible act as killing his own parents.
The movie further solidifies this idea by the ending. His sister tells him that she will always be with him because his sister isn’t just a tangible being. She is a representation of all his fears and anxieties. She is the psychological manifestation of the trauma he endured by his parents hands and even though they are gone, that trauma remains and he solved nothing by killing them or by locking the sister back up. And that’s also why she said the bars can’t hold her. She will always find him because she will always be with him.
It also makes perfect sense that the kid is terrified of spiders and his sister is a spider like monster. That’s just another example of how the sister simply represents the kids anxiety.
I watched this movie last night an absolutely awesome movie many thanks for this outstanding video!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@filmcomicsexplained 🙂👍
A much more gruesome version of Charlotte's Web🕷🕷🕷🕷
Sarah's web is nasty
Zuckerbergs famous pig 23
You keep on knocking but you can't come in you keep on knocking but you can't come in come back tomorrow night and try it again.
Your gonna hit a big M soon mate, can’t wait to see it happen 🫶
Thank you good sir!
This was such a nice surprise film!
Holy shit when the mom ran out with her hands up😭😭 i was both horrified and ammused 🤣🤣 how can something be so scary and funny at the same time🤣
The parent don't make sense in this to me. Like they just start acting really strange and bad out of nowhere forcing him to his sister
Idk if you’ve covered it but I’d love to see you explain Suspiria
Love your work! Thanks!
Yessss
That's okay...I didn't need to sleep tonight.
I mean like they had her isolated because she was mutated before the girl saw her, and then they put her in the pit so no one would see her again, she probably wouldn’t have been so evil if they’d have loved her like a normal child instead of letting the rats and spiders raise her, unless I misinterpreted part of it?
She killed the girl on Halloween night that went missing so they locked her up
Wow .. i absolutely and unexpectedly loved this! Great Autumn film 🎃
This movie is the embodiment of arachnophobia
Yeah its like an evolution of it
Like many, many horror movies like it, it suffers tremendously by the reveal. Somehow knowing and seeing this not-scary and ridiculous spider girl is enough to make the movie feel silly. I think the two parents was the best part of this movie. A bit campy at times, but I love the "unhingedness" of them both, like they are two walking time bombs of madness that could go off at any time. Peter is also wonderfully played. Child actors can be hit or miss but this kid just had a genuine face of hopelessness and deer-in-headlights throughout the movie.
We watched it last night. Really enjoyed it! Well done!
When i heard "Anthony Starr" my brain instantly went: *oh no* 😥
This one had so much potential but really squandered it in the last 20 minutes. Making her the fucking spider hulk and having the bully’s family come smash up the house was so jarring that it almost ruined what preceded it.
The final act was terrible after the phenomenal build up. One thing no one addresses is: if Sarah is super human, why couldn't she break through the fucking drywall? That made zero sense and was beyond stupid!?!
To me this is an exploration of how your family can be the true monsters to cause you the most harm and they can come in many forms . And also trying to live with the Legacy I've been connected to literal monsters.
I love your video reviews/explanations man. However, I think you might need to make one correction. According to several other sources, the parents did not kill Rebecca Holbrook. Apparently Rebecca knocked on their door on Halloween and somehow Sarah opened the door and killed her. Then the parents tried to cover it up by burying her in the backyard. Sarah even implies this towards the end, saying "just like the girl in the garden" when the bullies enter the home. Someone correct me if I am wrong. It's either the parents killed Rebecca to not have what is going on with Sarah leaked, or Sarah killed Rebecca. Good movie though. I thought it was original and good.
Anthony Starr looks like he wants to kill everyone with something in his hand.😂
I've recommended this film to everyone I know who loves a good horror flick. After I know they've watched it I can recommend this vid to them also.
Just a minute in and getting big Coraline vibes. In a good way
Is anyone else reminded of the Deadtime Stories animated pilot?
Hey is that Homelander?
And where can I watch this? I appreciate streaming, but sometimes I miss standing in a video store for hours waiting for someone to return a movie. If only because I knew exactly what was needed to watch said movie instead of wondering if I need to subscribe to an entire streaming service for a month for one damn movie if the movie I want to watch isn't on one of the other 5 streaming services I already am subscribed to. Of which I barely watch anyway because most movies suck now days cuz politics lol
This remains me of a film where a young child beats on pots and pans and somehow Controls cockroaches
If these 2 are some sorta misguided heroes of parents they shoulda, been loving an caring normal ones while letting him know of the EXTREME danger of "Sarah" if they wasn't willing to try an raise her an help her hide it an MAYBE making her be something different altogether. Someone like "her" coulda been raised to be something else if they hadn't done the kinda psychopathic things to drive her psychotic an choose some kinda evil.
HOWEVER even alot of psychos got their limits sometimes. An if she called him "family" determined to stay with him "always" implying she still calls him family after vengeance on their parents. An he may have some secret darkside guardian now somehow if they can reach some kinda arrangement to keep her from hurting him an those he'll come to carry for except for very specific circumstances
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊 PREY will be coming to Blu Ray on October 3rd. Add it to your collection.
I absolutely love spiders. I was hoping she'd look more arachnid by design, but still cool. I don't see anything scary or creepy about it, personally having a badass spider sister would be awesome in my opinion lol
quite literally Spider-Girl.
wat
The parents should have just said it was a Halloween costume! That way their secret was safe and no one would have to be kidnapped! Easy peasy Chucky Cheesey
I just can't not see Homelander in everything Antony does now lmao
I know, it was hard to shake off, but he is great in this!
See for me I can’t unsee “banshee”.
Anthony is absolutely fantastic. At first I didn’t realize he was homelander but I could finally hear it after a minute and was like “oooobhhh”
The fact that Peter does kill his parents is foreshadowing that he is evil like his sister. I feel like that's the whole point of the movie. He only looked innocent on the outside
I believe you mistakenly credited Cleopatra Coleman as Caroline Coleman.
Great video!
I think the parents are lucky that Sarah decided they weren’t on the menu 💀
Antony Starr is so good at playing a psychopath. Like my god
Never heard of this movie before, was there any marketing for this?
Looks good though, definitely interesting.
The teacher was a snitch, like if a kid calls you begging for help you don't just tell the kids parents who might be the reason for him asking.
Speaking of giant spiders, i’d like to see you do itsy bitsy.
Must be the Entity from Dead by Daylight 😂
Even in this universe Peter cant catch a break
Can you please make a video about the werewolves in the Quarry game?
15:53 So, they battled a mutant freak, locked her in a cage, and got away but didn’t call police to go up in there and smoke her ass!? They just went home like nothings wrong!? Smfh…
I loved Ms. Divine❤️ Great film.
Like that beat at the end
>”analysis” video of media i enjoyed
>look inside
>plot summary
Omg! I just realized this ladies parenting "style" and ruby franke's "style" are almost the same. "Its for your own good.... its BECAUSE we love you!!!!"
Barf.
After getting past the 12 commercial breaks before the recap started I realized I didn’t need to know THAT bad.
Peter: kills homelander
Butcher: you done good lad now behave or ill come back n stomp ya.
Those are quite the jaz hands in the thumbnail
"She's in the walls... SHE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!!!"
Sarah:" I was born this way, and-".
Don't deny it. Lady Gaga was playing in your head at this point.
Homelander the pumpkin farmer
The parents were definitely evil. Locking their daughter away because of birth deformities is cruel and heartless. No wonder she turned out the way she did.
You know what I thought when I saw the trailer of this movie? It would have been cool asf if mid movie it is reveal it's a new Nightmare on Elm Street film, idk like it has a lot to do with dreaming imagine if without any warning Freddy resurrects with his old theme back and his iconic laugh, the viewers would have become mad especially if it's done in a surprising way like no one expects this was a Freddy Krueger come back, but it is. Or at least that's what I thought
You had me at Antony Starr
Sarah (Cobweb) vs Reagan (The Excorcist) who wins?
Reagan easily
Reagan every time.
What an original film concept.
Dude I was thinking the whole time that the bully looked like a young Jake busey 😂
Sarah definitely killed the girl and blamed her parents. You can tell by the way Peter's Mother reacts to him pushing the bully down the stairs, she's terrified she has another murderous child.
Holy shit Starr continues to be phenomenal.
Even if he's got that undercurrent of Homelander beneath him going forward, its a hell of a baseline.
Mothers have the Babadook, children have... This.
That's geniually sad and touching. I will have to watch it one day ❤
I do wish we got a more clear explanation on two things. One what does that ending mean. And Two why does his sister look like that and how did she just learn to crawl on walls and the ceiling.
While both are open for interpretation, I assume the following: the ending is an indication that the events of the house still haunts him. He lives in a constant fear of not only his sister finding him again, but also into becoming like her personality wise.
As for why she looks the way she does as well how she able to do what she does. She was born like this. Either a birth defect/mutation or a curse (it could be paranormal), she was born with a monstrous visage and a musculature that in time would allow her to crawl like that. She saw spiders in her confinement doing it and she discovered that she could do this too...
@@BjornV1994 ok first one is fair but it also makes me think did they just lock her up and leave her there. And I still wonder why she is like that since we don't really get anything directly supernatural in the film that could be a sign that's what made her that way and I'm not sure what genetic deformity let's you climb walls like a spider. I know I'm being knit picky but it does kinda urk me.
@@Colejones9505 Again, there is a lot open for interpretation in this film (which is actually one of the reasons why I'd resonated with me when I reviewed it for Dutch Languaged film site) but I don't think she is just locked up and forgotten about. Clearly she is fed, otherwise she would have died but there is also the unexplained bleeding wound on Marcus' arm. I think that happened when he went to feed her/talk to her.
As for the second, there are clear hints that she is born this way and probably had these abilities inherently in her. Why she was born this way, that is indeed an interesting question the film doesn't answer. And on this I'm personally torn. On one hand, I would have liked an explanation as well, why is she like this, what caused her to be born like this. On the other hand, some things are creepier when left up to the imagination of the viewer. And this an instance were, at least for me, that works. There are films that I despise because they left too much open for interpretation, in a "your guess is as good as mine" kinda way but here, here I felt like they wanted to keep somethings open for interpretation while leaving enough clues to in which direction we might find our answer.
But I can understand why this isn't as appealing for everyone. On the pages I frequent, the opinions about this movie were amusingly split. Literally one half saying: I love this film and the other, I didn't care much for it because things like this...
@@BjornV1994 I mean I like it I like her design and I do think the film is good these two points are me just being knit picky. Also I meant at the end when the boy and teacher leave did they just leave her down there and not call the cops or something.
Because his sister represents his fears and anxiety. The boy is deathly afraid of spiders, so that it why they chose to make his sister a spider monster. There is no good explanation for why a normal woman birthed such a thing, but that’s what the sister is meant to represent. It can be argued that she isn’t even real and that the abuse of the parents over the years turned the boy into a paranoid schizophrenic. The kid was so afraid of the tapping on his walls that he had nightmares that his mother was the culprit and was attempting to kill him. Those aren’t just nightmares, it is also what the kid truly believes and this is furthered by his “sister” convincing him to kill them. That could just be his fear and anxiety talking.
I LOVED this movie
This movie is certainly one of the better horror movies I’ve seen recently, multiple times better than that exorcist sequel in 2023
I like the curveball about the sister being a monster but felt the movie would have made more sense for her to just be a ghost spirit trapped in the walls wanting Peter to get revenge on their parents for killing her. It would have fit more with the parents acting so cold & distant with Peter (because they had a dark secret) and would make them more menacing
This way the monster would be an unseen force rather than just another evil creature, which makes the movie more scary in my opinion