An eight-year-old boy named Peter. He lives a very isolated life with his overprotective parents and constant bullying at school. Soon begins to hear strange noises and knocks coming from within the wall. He soon finds himself caught in a conflict situation between him and his parents. Overall, the movie itself has its basic formula of a creepy parent film so it doesn't offer much in those categories. Even with the basic plot, I found the film rather amusing they do a good job of setting up the being of the film the setting itself has sort of a muted Halloween film to it from the old setting of the house to the school having sort of this small town feel to it. The kid who also plays is rather decent. Again, he doesn't have much to go off with just coming off as a very awkward boy, but you feel enough for him for what he goes through. Both the parents give decent performances Antony Starr does a good job of playing this on-edge psycho. To be fair it is a little hard to not look at him and immediately think of Homelander from The Boys. Lizzy Caplan is your typical frantic hysteric mother you have seen in numerous films from Carrie to The People Under the Stairs, it's still amusing enough, but it seems there could have been more scenes between her and her son. The whole outside interference from the teacher kind of seems rather pointless. The whole idea of just this substitute who just completely concerned with this one kid doesn't feel as genuine as it should really, she didn't need to be a substitute she could have just been his teacher. The pacing of the film at no point feels like it drags it keeps the story going and does keep you invested although the end of the movie does end on a flat note and will leave many a little disappointed.
Review of Cobweb
