Updated On: 28 October, 2023 10:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
`Cobweb` movie review: It’s a rather typical horror movie replete with traditional tricks and treats of the genre kind

Still from Cobweb
Samuel Bodin’s debut Horror directorial has eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) plagued by a mysterious, constant tapping from inside his bedroom wall. Soon, those nightly noises start to sound like voices. At first, that voice scares Peter, but as his parents refuse to acknowledge their existence, the voice becomes a source of comfort for the lonely boy.
It’s a rather typical horror movie replete with traditional tricks and treats of the genre kind. Supernatural story elements, spiders, the fact that Peter is a victim of bullying, his parents Carol (Lizzy Caplan) and Mark (Antony Starr) don’t seem to have a clue, his teacher Miss Devine (Cleopatra Coleman) worries more about him than his parents and then there’s the other worldly creepy voice…