COBWEB (The Spider Beast) EXPLORED 

“He doesn’t have a violent bone in his body” Said the mother of every mass murderer, serial killer, etc.

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

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

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?

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.

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 was surprisingly a breath of fresh air. A very good modern-day horror movie. And It actually came out of nowhere. Decent popcornflix.

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

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

I’m afraid of spiders. This movie didn’t help.

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.

Of fricking course this is uploaded when I'm going to bed.😳 Sweet dreams.😱

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 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.

Overbearing parents that are equally as emotionally distant we have I heard this before?

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.

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.

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!

Oh those secrets in the walls they just won't keep quiet.

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 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!!

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!

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.

Spiders? Meh. But Australian Spiders? “BRING IT ON!” Joe Swanson

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?

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

This was such a nice surprise film!

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

Pls make a video on A Nightmare on Elm Street

Saw this movie and pretty cool. That kid is an awesome actor.

Great work, man! Keep it up ❤️

Maybe if you were transparent with your children, they wouldn’t be forced to seek outside help

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.

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.

Gotta watch this now! Excellent video Niyat 👌

That's okay...I didn't need to sleep tonight.

We watched it last night. Really enjoyed it! Well done!

This movie is the embodiment of arachnophobia

Your gonna hit a big M soon mate, can’t wait to see it happen 🫶

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.

Is anyone else reminded of the Deadtime Stories animated pilot?

Homelander did such a good job in this movie resisting the urge to kill and use his powers

A much more gruesome version of Charlotte's Web🕷🕷🕷🕷

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?

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.

Subscribed, this is great stuff!

I watched this movie last night an absolutely awesome movie many thanks for this outstanding video!

When i heard "Anthony Starr" my brain instantly went: *oh no* 😥

You had me at Antony Starr

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.

Idk if you’ve covered it but I’d love to see you explain Suspiria Love your work! Thanks!

I loved Ms. Divine❤️ Great film.

That's geniually sad and touching. I will have to watch it one day ❤

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.

I just can't not see Homelander in everything Antony does now lmao

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'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.

What an original film concept.

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!?!

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

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🤣

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.

I believe you mistakenly credited Cleopatra Coleman as Caroline Coleman. Great video!

Nobody told me about this. I want to see it!

Homelander the pumpkin farmer

movie was meh. Mostly surface level stuff for the firsts two acts and then a nice final act followed up with a terrible ending. the parents saying they think its his imagination or rats in the walls and not their locked up secret child was ridiculous. when i saw this in theaters i thought the movie was building up that maybe this all was in the kids head, but when it ended up not being, it really falls apart. the ending sucked cause there are about 6 bodies at the house and two of them were killed by the child. are they NOT gonna call the cops? pretty sure the kid is going to have a hard time claiming self defense with killing his parents.

..bet. cant wait. gGs

Just a minute in and getting big Coraline vibes. In a good way

Anthony Starr looks like he wants to kill everyone with something in his hand.😂

Antony Starr is so good at playing a psychopath. Like my god

Speaking of giant spiders, i’d like to see you do itsy bitsy.

>”analysis” video of media i enjoyed >look inside >plot summary

DAMNNN THAT WAS SCARY ASF

Oh I need to see this.

I think the parents are lucky that Sarah decided they weren’t on the menu 💀

Peter: kills homelander Butcher: you done good lad now behave or ill come back n stomp ya.

Even in this universe Peter cant catch a break

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

This remains me of a film where a young child beats on pots and pans and somehow Controls cockroaches

I LOVED this movie

Must be the Entity from Dead by Daylight 😂

Sarah:" I was born this way, and-". Don't deny it. Lady Gaga was playing in your head at this point.

Never heard of this movie before, was there any marketing for this? Looks good though, definitely interesting.

Those are quite the jaz hands in the thumbnail

I liked this movie, but it kind of lost me at the strength of the monster. So it can eviscerate someone in 0.4 seconds and throw around almost grown men like the rubber pencil trick, but she can’t break out of some old shitty drywall?

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…

After getting past the 12 commercial breaks before the recap started I realized I didn’t need to know THAT bad.

Can you please make a video about the werewolves in the Quarry game?

His is name peter? and this a film about a spider monster? Coincidence anyone????

Dude I was thinking the whole time that the bully looked like a young Jake busey 😂

i really enjoyed this movie, i do feel like it had some plot holes, like Sarah the spider monster being strong enough to rip people apart but not burst out of the walls??? Why the parents didn’t finally tell peter the girl in the wall was evil, why they put him in the basement with her cage that shows they had her chained up. Overall i still enjoyed this movie, it had a fairytale vibe with all the music 😊

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊 PREY will be coming to Blu Ray on October 3rd. Add it to your collection.

What streaming service is it on ?

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”

Will you ever do Higanjima/Escape from Vampire Island? I read about halfway, the story is not the best but all the monster designs are good.

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

Sarah (Cobweb) vs Reagan (The Excorcist) who wins?

Just finished watching the FCE on The Meg 2 again and was wondering which one to re-watch next. Imagine my delight when I saw a new one posted 4 minutes ago.

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.