It’s Halloween, and you know what that means: It’s the perfect time to watch horror movies. Vampires, serial killers, haunted houses, the month that precedes Halloween is the prime time to watch scary movies, but not every scary movie is a Halloween movie… and not every Halloween movie is scary.

So it is with great relish that we present the 31 best Halloween movies ever, exclusively featuring films that actually take place on Halloween, or at least during the Halloween season. The point is, if Halloween doesn’t play a major part in the movie it’s not fair to call it a “Halloween movie,” and as long as Halloween shows up in some important way, it doesn’t matter where the film is frightening, funny, or even just for little kids.

We’re narrowing the field down to theatrically released features and shorts and feature-length TV movies. Halloween specials deserve their own list,...

Spooky season is upon us. ‘Tis the time for things that go bump in the night, and we’ve got a curated selection of some of the best new horror movies streaming right now to get you in the mood. There were a number of solid horror films released over the past year, from a couple of nun-centric films to the vampiric “Abigail” to Russell Crowe as an exorcising priest.

There’s a lot to consider, is what we’re saying, but if you pick one of the scary movies on this list we guarantee you’ll be satisfied.

“Abigail” From left to right: Melissa Berrara and Alisha Weir in Universal Pictures’ “Abigail” (Universal)

Streaming on Peacock

While this enjoyable spin on the vampire genre doesn’t quite match the perfection of their uproarious 2019 horror comedy, “Ready or Not,” co-directors Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin have once again assembled a crack...

It’s that wonderful time of year when horror is playing on TV nonstop, thanks to various networks and streaming services embracing Halloween. But if you’ve already exhausted your perennial favorites and watched all the Halloween movies or Night of the Demons, you might be seeking new favorites…

Since it’s the last full week before Halloween, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to recent Halloween horror movies. These five features were released within the last five years and deliver new seasonal frights. Almost all embrace the best holiday of the year in massive, atmospheric ways.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Cobweb – Hulu

It doesn’t get more seasonal than the feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne.” Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) star as parents who...

Technology giveth and taketh away. We can watch most movies with the click of a button from our couch but no longer have the joy of going out to the video rental store. We can also buy and digitally “own” any movie at a moment’s notice, but more and more, physical copies of movies aren’t even being made.

The movie theater has stayed the course, however. Through Covid-19 shutdowns, insane movie budgets followed by box office disasters, the rise of quality TV shows like Game of Thrones, streaming, The Flash… theaters have survived, thank God. That being said, each year, more movies conveniently grace us with their presence at home and only at home.

It’s not always a bad thing for films to skip movie theaters entirely. But I’d be lying if I said it wouldn’t have been nice to have the option to see...

This article contains major spoilers for "Cobweb."

As anyone with arachnophobia can attest, there are few moments more horrible than looking up at the ceiling for the giant spider that was there only a moment ago, only to find nothing there. Well, except maybe the moment where the giant spider reappears on your pillow, a few inches away from your face. Samuel Bodin's 2023 horror film "Cobweb" preys on that kind of fear with a monster who is unseen for most of the movie's runtime, and who hides under on ceilings, under furniture, and inside the walls in the film's blood-soaked final act.

The fact that there even is a monster is hidden for much of the movie, which instead presents young Peter's (Woody Norman) parents, Carol (Lizzy Caplan) and Mark (Antony Starr), as human monsters who just might kill him and bury him in the pumpkin patch if he doesn't behave himself.

Stars: Woody Norman, Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman | Written by Chris Thomas Devlin | Directed by Samuel Bodin

Cobweb begins a week before Halloween when Peter is woken up by the sound of knocking seemingly coming from inside his bedroom wall. You can’t blame him for being creeped out, with its peeling paint and backyard full of rotting pumpkins the house already looks like something out of a horror movie. And then there’s that weird bulging thing the walls in his room do while he’s sleeping.

We also quickly learn that he has no friends and gets bullied at school. His parents Carol and Mark also won’t let him dress up for Halloween, something that may be related to the disappearance of a young girl a few years ago. Unsurprisingly they also don’t believe him about the knocking.

Writer Chris Thomas Devlin, whose only other...

I grew up on Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown, and Goosebumps. These gateway horrors opened up a whole new world for me. The trembling fear I endured when Carly Beth slid on that terrifying green mask still lingers with me even now. And I’ll never forget the chills I felt running down my spine when Sarah launched into “Come Little Children” or the penetrating gaze of Kalabar that seemed to cut into my soul. These images provoked something in me, conspiring to lure me into horror – and I’ve never left. I might be 30-something now, but I can still enjoy nice little gateway horror movies, especially when they’re as compelling as the Halloween-set Cobweb and The Curse of Bridge Hollow.

In Cobweb, screenwriter Chris Thomas Devlin stages an epically creepy story about a young boy named Peter (Woody Norman), whose parents Carol (Lizzy Caplan) and Mark (Antony Starr) rule with a stringent hand.

Indie films have scored some impressive figures at Spanish box office this year.

As the Spanish film industry comes together at Valladolid International Film Week (known locally as the Seminici), one of the big talking points will be how to make independent films stand out at the local box office.

Although Spain’s box office in the year to mid-October has grossed €400m, 35% higher than the same period in 2022, it is still 17% lower than the 2015-2019 pre-Covid average.

US studio blockbusters led the charge, headed by Barbie ($35.2m), Super Mario Bros. Movie ($29m), Avatar: The Way Of Water, ($26.9m) Oppenheimer...

One of the oldest horror tropes in the book, the old, dusty, unfinished basement/crawl space setting has provided a cornucopia of stories about the universal fear of what lurks in the darkest and least-coziest corners of our homes. Yet, in Wes Craven’s 1991 lesser mainstream, still beloved cult favorite The People Under the Stairs, the what’s-hiding-in-the-basement angle is reversed and subverted, as the real monsters are not the othered hiding in the basement, and the home invaders are the heroes. Three decades later, the blueprint for People has imprinted itself onto a couple of other soon-to-be cult favorites, last year’s Barbarian and this summer’s Cobweb— all of which share much more in common than merely their set-ups.

Shifting tonally between biting commentary on social economics and campiness, The People Under the Stairs waivers between Candyman and a Tales From the Crypt episode, as its middle finger to hypocritical,...

Fresh out of movie theaters, Lionsgate’s horror movie Cobweb is now available at home on Digital, and the film has also just been released onto DVD and Blu-ray today, September 12.

The feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne,” Cobweb was released in limited theaters in July with very little promotion and very little fanfare, and it ended up being so hard to find that most fans didn’t even get a chance to see it.

Now you can watch the movie at home, and to whet your appetite we’re sharing an exclusive sneak peek at the bonus features package for the just-released Cobweb Blu-ray.

This is a particularly cool bonus features clip because it reveals the film’s monster – Big Time Spoilers – which was played by a contortionist wearing a practical monster mask.

Cobweb‘s creature was played by actress Aleksandra Dragova.

Bodin explains,...

Also making its mark on the box office chart across a packed National Cinema Day weekend was controversial drama ’Sound Of Freedom’.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Sep 1-3) Total gross to date Week 1. The Equalizer 3 (Sony)

£2m £2.8m 1 2. Barbie (Warner Bros) £1.6m £92.6m 7 3. Oppenheimer (Universal) £960,300 £55.4m 7 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount) £619,000 £9.2m 5 5. Sound Of Freedom (Angel Studios) £589,456 £759,684 1

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has finally lost its place after standing strong atop the UK-Ireland box office chart for six weekends, with Antoine Fuqua’s Denzel Washington starrer The Equalizer 3 racing to the number one spot in its opening weekend,...

Further openers are Sony’s ’Equalizer 3’, Mub’s ’Passages’ and Lionsgate’s ‘Cobweb’ .

Seventeen new films launch into UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend in a sign of the release schedule returning to its pre-pandemic state; as exhibitors look for a post-Barbenheimer success, and to capitalise on this year’s National Cinema Day, on Saturday, September 2.

Tickets for all films are available for £3 at over 630 cinemas across the UK and Ireland; last year’s National Cinema Day brought in 1.46m admissions.

Angel Studios is releasing Alejandro Monteverde’s biographical drama Sound Of Freedom, about a government agent-turned-vigilante who aims to rescue children from sex traffickers,...

As adults, we know that not everyone can be trusted. However, little kids, like Peter in the 2023 Lionsgate horror flick "Cobweb," should be able to trust their parents. Is the knocking sound young Peter hears in his bedroom real or in his imagination, as his mom keep telling him? Or are they perhaps lying to him and hiding a dangerous and terrifying secret? There's a line in the horror film "Silent Hill" that says, "Mother is God in the eyes of a child," so who can a child trust if they can't trust their parents?

The psychological thriller "Cobweb" comes to us from first-time feature director Samuel Bodin and writer Chris Thomas Devlin ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), and /Film's own William Bibbiani called it "one of the best horror movies of the year." You didn't know? You didn't see a poster or commercial anywhere for the film? That might be because...

Directed by Samuel Bodin, Cobweb is a well-made horror thriller, but the problem is that it gets trapped in its own intrigue and doesn’t manage to find a way out of the mess. The story begins by showing us the life of a boy named Peter. He gets bullied at school, and his father is too cold a figure. His mother seems to love him, but even she grows cold as time progresses. All manner of wicked things seem to be surrounding the young boy, and it all has to do with the voices coming from behind a wall in his bedroom. The premise of Cobweb is indeed intriguing, but does it even have a resolution, or is it just a pretext for bombarding the audience with cliches?

Chris Thomas Devlin wrote the film but forgot basic storytelling rules, and at one point, Cobweb started to seem like a...

Cobweb, directed by Samuel Bodin, offers a chilling exploration of childhood dark fantasies, the repercussions of parental negligence, and the enduring impact of unchecked childhood trauma. This horror thriller dives into the secrets of a dysfunctional family and the haunting struggle of a young child attempting to survive in a household fraught with horrifying mysteries. The film features a talented cast, including Antony Starr, Lizzy Caplan, and Cleopatra Coleman, and deftly showcases a great effort to conjure fear and suspense throughout its enigmatic narrative and grim and creative visuals.

While Cobweb successfully taps into the fear of the unknown, effectively keeping us on the edge of our seats, some die-hard horror fans like me may find the storyline extremely predictable and find that it falls short of delivering the satisfactory horror experience they might expect. In comparison to other films in the horror genre like The Babadook, which masterfully explores a psychological horror,...

The following article contains major spoilers for Cobweb.

When most of us think of fairy tales, we imagine singing princesses, magical monsters and enchanted castles. We’ve been conditioned by Disney to view these stories as life lessons or tales of empowerment, but the origin of the art form is much darker. A generalized type of folklore usually containing some sort of magical element, fairy tales have been passed down by oral tradition, changing over the years to reflect the time period. The term was first coined by Madame D’Aulnoy in her 1697 collection of French folklore, Les Contes des fées, but the tales most of us are familiar with come from the collections of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

First published in 1812, the stories collected for Children’s and Household Tales were much darker than the versions we see brought to life in Disney animated classics. For example, the...

One would be forgiven for not realizing it, but a horror movie starring Lizzy Caplan and Anthony Starr was released in theaters three weeks ago just as the Barbenheimer craze was getting underway. Sure, it would be easy to blame the wild success of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" for burying this movie but, quite frankly, it seems like Lionsgate, the studio behind the film, must shoulder some of that blame as well. Not only did the studio do very little to build any awareness for the film but, as it arrived on VOD over the weekend, the domestic box office grosses were never reported.

For people who don't follow this stuff regularly, it is truly rare for a theatrical release of any kind from a well-known studio to not have its box office numbers reported at all. Even movies that make very little will have those numbers reflected on sites like...

Cobweb is a horror thriller film directed by Samuel Bodin (Marianne) from a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin (Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The horror film follows the story of a young boy named Peter, who is plagued by a mysterious and constant noise coming from his bedroom wall, but his parents think that the voice is only in his imagination. As time goes Peter starts to think that his parents are hiding a terrible secret from him. Cobweb stars Woody Norman as Peter, Lizzy Caplan as Carol, Antony Starr as Mark, Cleopatra Coleman as Miss Devine, and Ellen Dubin as The Girl. So, if you loved Cobweb here are some similar movies you could watch next.

The Visit (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Universal Pictures

Synopsis: When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents’ secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with the elderly couple.

Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is an artist and composer from Florence, Italy. Her music has been described as being genre-fluid and having a “chameleon-like nature” (A Closer Listen), melding together sampled field recordings, lush layers of synths, chamber instruments and electronic beats. She draws inspiration from film music, music concrete and nature to create textural electronica, often blending unlikely sounds with one another.

Her feature-length film scoring credits include Netflix film “Night Teeth” (directed by Adam Randall), campy-thriller “Deadly Illusions”, They/Them (directed by John Logan) and the just released Red, White & Royal Blue. Television credits include AppleTV+ Original Series Dickinson (created by Alena Smith), seasons 3 and 4 of NBC Good Girls (created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (created by Sara Goodman) for Amazon Prime Video.

Sofia recently discussed with Wamg her terrifying and thrilling score for Lionsgate’s Cobweb, how...

When Lionsgate first announced that they were developing a genre project called Cobweb, the company – which had previously brought us horror films like The Devil’s Rejects, Cabin Fever, the Hostel films, and of course the Saw franchise – said they were doing so with the intention of taking back their “ownership” of horror. But the movie doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact since reaching theatres at the end of last month. We previously heard that Cobweb will be getting a Blu-ray, DVD, and digital release on September 12th (copies of the Blu-ray and DVD releases can be pre-ordered at This Link)… but now it has been revealed that the digital release is actually going to happen this Friday, August 11th! The digital version of the film can be pre-ordered right Here.

Our own Tyler Nichols thought the movie was good enough to give it an 8/10 review.

Directed by Samuel Bodin,...

We told you last week that Lionsgate’s fresh-out-of-theaters horror movie Cobweb is coming to Blu-ray on September 12, but it’s first going to be available on Digital this week.

You’ll be able to buy Cobweb at home on Digital for $14.99 beginning Friday, August 11.

You can pre-order the movie over on Amazon now.

The feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne,” Cobweb was released in limited theaters last month with very little promotion and very little fanfare, and it ended up being so hard to find that most fans didn’t even get a chance to see it.

Lionsgate’s summer release strategy for Cobweb is a bit of a head scratcher, as the film fully embodies the spooky vibes of the Halloween season. In fact, the whole movie is set right around Halloween, so it’s a perfect one to watch on the road...

Four and a half years ago, Lionsgate – a studio that had once been a prominent force in the horror genre, with releases like The Devil’s Rejects, Cabin Fever, the Hostel films, and of course the Saw franchise – announced that they were developing a genre project called Cobweb with the intention of taking back their “ownership” of horror. The film was given a theatrical release at the end of last month… but we haven’t heard anything about how it’s done at the domestic box office. It hasn’t been listed on any box office charts. The only number we have is a worldwide total that’s just under $2 million. So it seems not many people have seen Cobweb. Maybe it will do better when it reaches home video. Lionsgate will be giving the film a Blu-ray and digital release on September 12th, and copies can be pre-ordered at This Link.

The feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne,” Cobweb was released in limited theaters last month with very little promotion and very little fanfare, and it ended up being so hard to find that most fans didn’t even get a chance to see it.

The good news this week is that Cobweb is headed to Blu-ray in time for Halloween, with Amazon listing a September 12, 2023 release date at the time of this article being written.

Lionsgate’s summer release strategy for Cobweb is a bit of a head scratcher, as the film fully embodies the spooky vibes of the Halloween season. In fact, the whole movie is set right around Halloween, so it’s a perfect one to watch on the road to October 31. Thankfully, you’ll be able to do just that within the comfort of your own home this coming spooky season.

You...

[Editor's Note: This article was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn't exist.]

Parents are the ultimate salvation when you are afraid of the dark or have a monster under your bed. However, it is hard to know where to turn when the people you call out for could be more dangerous than what is lurking in the dark, under the bed or behind the bedroom walls...

Peter is a quiet, reserved and precocious child who is picked on at school. He doesn’t have many friends and his relationship with his parents is a seemingly distant one. One night, he is awoken by the sound of knocking coming from inside his bedroom wall. Fearful of what might be in there he cries out; he is finally tended to by his mother, Carol (Lizzy Caplin). She assures him, stating ‘this is an old house - things are bound to go bump in the night, and Peter will soon discover how right she is.

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It’s nearly time to close out the month of July, which has been another scorching hot one for Trace and me. We kicked things off with Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) to coincide with our coverage of The Red Door, then we talked about another sequel to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Adam Robitel’s Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021).

Now we’re up to a huge milestone: Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho (1960) aka one of the original slasher prototypes. In the iconic film, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) steals $40K from her crappy job before stopping at the abandoned Bates Motel. There she meets young proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) who seems a little…off.

Unfortunately for Marion, soon afterward she’s brutally murdered in the shower by Mother, setting off a chain reaction as first private investigator Arbogast (Martin Balsam), then Marion’s lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) and her...

It’s hard to believe, but Cobweb star Lizzy Caplan hasn’t made a full-fledged horror movie until now. The genre is often a rite of passage for younger actors, especially modern-day performers, but surprisingly, the opportunities never came Caplan’s way despite launching her career 24 years ago. She started out with a handful of appearances on Paul Feig and Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks, as well as the latter’s Undeclared, and she first got to know Seth Rogen through both of the aforementioned comedic projects. Oddly enough, Rogen’s production company, Point Grey, would bring her Chris Thomas Devlin’s Cobweb script two decades later.

In 2004, Caplan’s life forever changed by way of her breakout performance as the witty and brash Janis Ian in Tina Fey and Mark Waters’ now-classic comedy, Mean Girls. So, besides having an aversion to horror movies, Caplan tends to believe that...

As the opening credits begin in “Cobweb,” eagle-eyed audience members might notice the appearance of the Point Grey production company. This is the company formed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, a studio known for its smart, incredibly popular comedy films and TV series. Wait, “Cobweb” is a dark horror film, right? Yes, yes it is. This is your first clue that Samuel Bodin’s directorial debut is anything but your typical haunted house film.

Continue reading ‘Cobweb’ Review: Lizzy Caplan & Antony Starr Are Wonderfully Deranged In Samuel Bodin’s Bonkers & Scary Horror Delight at The Playlist.

Return To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens Stateside this weekend with Film Movement presenting on two screens – NYC’s Bam Rose Cinema and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, expanding to LA and Seattle next Friday.

The distributor acquired the film directed by Li Ruijun after it premiered in Berlin in March, 2022 to glowing reviews, see Deadlines’s here. Hai Quing and Wu Renlin star as a middle-aged couple in a rural province encouraged to marry by their families, who see them as a burden. Love and respect slowly as they scratch out a living of extreme hardship working the land. A 95% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

First released last July in China, it played unusually well for an arthouse title there and appeared on streaming platforms in early September before disappearing later that month without explanation.

Regulators don’t...

Stars: Woody Norman, Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman | Written by Chris Thomas Devlin | Directed by Samuel Bodin

Cobweb begins a week before Halloween when Peter is woken up by the sound of knocking seemingly coming from inside his bedroom wall. You can’t blame him for being creeped out, with its peeling paint and backyard full of rotting pumpkins the house already looks like something out of a horror movie. And then there’s that weird bulging thing the walls in his room do while he’s sleeping.

We also quickly learn that he has no friends and gets bullied at school. His parents Carol and Mark also won’t let him dress up for Halloween, something that may be related to the disappearance of a young girl a few years ago. Unsurprisingly they also don’t believe him about the knocking.

Writer Chris Thomas Devlin, whose only other...

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening?

Barbenheimer.

When the dust settles, no matter which film wins the box office, the word "Barbenheimer" will probably stick with us. Dictionaries will eventually have to adopt "Barbenheimer" into the official linguistic canon as a reference to two seemingly diametrically opposed pop culture events debuting simultaneously.

For you see, two of the most anticipated and publicized movies of 2023 — Greta Gerwig's comedy "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's biopic "Oppenheimer" — come out the exact same weekend. Some folks are looking forward to just one film, some folks the other, but many avid cinephiles are planning to see both. And they're taking those plans so seriously that the question of which movie to see first is literally making headlines.

Yup, it seems like everyone in the world is planning to see "Barbie" and/or "Oppenheimer" this weekend.

Plot: Horror strikes when an eight-year-old boy named Peter tries to investigate the mysterious knocking noises that are coming from inside the walls of his house and a dark secret that his sinister parents kept hidden from him.

Review: When it film comes along that connects with you, it’s easy to let some flaws slip aside. While there have been plenty of great horror films released this year, something about Cobweb spoke to me in a deep way. I always love a film that plays with expectations and this one manages that with gusto. Even watching the trailer, it’s easy to create a certain picture of what the film will be about. But as the story progresses, it takes you on a journey where you’re constantly second-guessing character motivations and picking them apart. And I think a lot of that has to do with the cast.

The...

Cobweb, a supernaturally-inflected, psychological horror film from director Samuel Bodin (Marianne), making his feature-length debut, and screenwriter Chris Thomas Devlin, a 2018 Black List nominee, should be on the “must-see” list of any horror fan, serious, casual, or otherwise. It starts with a tap, tap, tap on a wall, then a whisper, a voice behind a wall, and frayed wallpaper, peeling to reveal someone or something behind the same wall. Whether that tapping, the voice, or even the frayed wallpaper are “real” or the fevered, overactive imagination of Cobweb’s central character, Peter, remains an intriguingly open question for most of Cobweb’s brief, 88-minute running time. For the first hour, Cobweb steadily unfolds as a standard, if well-crafted,...

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Lionsgate’s new thriller “Cobweb” is the kind of film horror fans live for: A tight, terrifying ride that’s filled with surprises but plays fair with the audience — there are a lot of twists and shocks, but no gimmicks in Chris Thomas Devlin’s screenplay. That script, which placed on the Black List in 2018, follows 8-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) as he becomes convinced that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) are keeping a horrible secret — a secret connected to the tapping he hears from inside his wall. The premise is simple, but Devlin takes it in one unpredictable direction after another, keeping the characterizations and situations just realistic enough for us to stay emotionally invested while letting the story spin off into surreal and horrifying worlds.

That’s a challenging tone to sustain, but the ingenuity of Devlin’s script finds its visual corollary in Samuel Bodin’s direction.

Director Samuel Bodin established a talent for crafting bone-chilling scares with “Marianne,” a series that saw a fairy tale nightmare spill over into waking life for its protagonists. For his follow-up, Cobweb, Bodin steps further into the realm of fairy tales for a gateway horror effort that plays like a bedtime story. In the severing of reality, though, Cobweb spins a messy web.

Eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) suffers night terrors that have his parents, Carol (Lizzy Caplan) and Mark (Antony Starr), at their wit’s end. Peter’s insistence that something’s inside his bedroom walls tapping all night long gets chalked up to an active imagination. The sounds become more consistent, and Mom and Dad’s peculiar reactions to Peter’s claims instill suspicion. Not helping the mounting mistrust is Peter’s school life, where his peers bully him. Peter’s new substitute teacher, Miss Devine (Cleopatra Coleman), takes...

After turning heads with the well-received but short-lived Netflix original horror series Marianne, French director Samuel Bodin moves into features with the visually compelling though ultimately disappointing chiller, Cobweb. Written by Chris Thomas Devlin, who took a stab at rejuvenating the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise in 2022, the script landed on the Black List, among the best unproduced screenplays of 2018, as well as its horror counterpart, the Blood List. That pedigree clearly helped draw a solid cast and crafts team, but after a promising set-up, the story’s internal logic gets scrambled.

Suspenseful though seldom scary, the film is set a week before Halloween and hinges for a good part of its run time on the reliable horror trope of the threat coming from inside the house.

It effectively defies the natural family dynamic of parents as protectors of the vulnerable by giving the young protagonist, Peter (Woody Norman, from C...

In the vast realm of horror films, Cobweb emerges as a new addition inviting audiences into a world where appearances deceive and secrets hide beneath the surface. Directed by Samuel Bodin and written by Chris Thomas Devlin, and starring Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Antony Starr and Cleopatra Coleman, the movie’s strengths lie in the established atmosphere of intrigue and suspense. However, it can’t sustain that as it grapples with missed opportunities and a lackluster conclusion that fails to bring closure to its narrative.

Cobweb starts with Peter (Norman) waking up from a nightmare and he hears noises in his bedroom walls. He runs over to the wall and knocks on it — and it knocks back. His mother Carol (Caplan) bursts into the room to find out what’s going on but ends up tucking him in to go back to bed. The next night he hears the voice...

Horror is a genre that constantly tries to upend audience expectations. In this last year alone, horror features like “Barbarian” and “M3GAN” have tried to tell new, unique tales that have franchise potential, so it’s not hard to find a movie that just wants to tell a story in a creative way.

Such is the case with “Cobweb,” a wholly original story written by Chris Thomas Devlin (who wrote the 2022 reboot of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) that appears to draw heavy inspiration from short-form horror content like “Tales From the Crypt” and features like “The People Under the Stairs.” And if you enjoy those inspirations, “Cobweb” sets itself up to be a success, especially with its leads being Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr, two performers who know how to creep people out.

The setup is fascinating almost immediately. Young Peter (Woody Norman) lives in an old house with his parents,...

It’s one week before Halloween in a sleepy Michigan suburb and the pumpkins are already rotting in the backyard. For some reason, Peter’s (Woody Norman) suspiciously strict parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) are intent on shielding the eight-year-old from participating in the holiday festivities, which may have something to do with the spooky and unnerving presence that the boy senses within the walls of their dark and austere home.

Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb isn’t shy about drawing upon the iconography of many a horror film before it—even the name of the town where it takes place is a difficult-to-ignore nod to Halloween’s Haddonfield—yet it weaves a distinctly eerie spell over the audience in its depiction of Peter’s troubled young life. In the film, the boy becomes tormented by tapping sounds emanating from behind his bedroom wall, and after willing himself to knock on the wall,...

Note: This Cobweb interview was conducted prior to the current SAG-AFTRA strike.

Samuel Bodin, the creator of Netflix horror series “Marianne,” returns to the genre with Lionsgate’s horror movie Cobweb, releasing in theaters on July 21.

Cobweb, written by Chris Thomas Devlin, follows eight-year-old Peter as mysterious tappings from within his bedroom walls lead him to suspect his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) are hiding a terrible secret.

Ahead of the film’s release, Bloody Disgusting spoke with both Samuel Bodin and Woody Norman about their gateway horror fairy tale and the scares you’ll find nestled within.

Much like “Marianne,” Bodin injects Cobweb with a fairy tale quality, well-suited for the scary bedtime story-like nightmares its young protagonist endures. While the similarities end there between “Marianne” and Cobweb, it does highlight Bodin’s affinity for building backstories.

The filmmaker explains his approach, “I always try to attack a story as the story demands.

It’s officially Barbenheimer week, so expect the online discourse to be dominated by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, two of this year’s most hotly anticipated movies. They’re both releasing in theaters this week, and the packed theatrical slate for the week also includes one of this summer’s brand new big screen horror movies.

Here’s all the new horror releasing July 18– July 23, 2023!

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First up, a pair of notorious YouTubers make a killer comeback in Screambox Exclusive Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing, which is Now Streaming on Screambox.

The Czech film balances laughs and thrills like Tucker and Dale vs Evil while channeling the absurdity of Dumb and Dumber with a modern twist.

In the film, Shoky and Morthy are best friends and successful YouTubers, but their fame is slowly beginning to fade.

This week marks the theatrical release of Lionsgate’s new horror movie Cobweb, and Bloody Disgusting is whetting your appetite with an exclusive clip from the film this morning.

Cobweb is the feature directorial debut of Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne,” and it’s scaring its way into theaters across the country on July 21, 2023.

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) star as parents who seemingly can’t be trusted in the rated “R” horror movie from director Samuel Bodin.

Exclusively check out a sneak peek clip below, wherein eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) is terrorized in his bedroom by a strange knocking. Could it be his own mother…?

“Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan...

One of this week’s most notable new releases is Lionsgate’s big screen horror movie Cobweb, a horror fairy tale of sorts from first time feature film director Samuel Bodin. Bodin’s no stranger to the realm of violent fairy tales for adults; the filmmaker’s direction on Netflix’s Marianne unleashed no shortage of visceral scares unleashed from a fairy tale realm.

This week’s streaming picks center around horror fairy tales, whether they’re direct adaptations or inspired by them. All blend horror and fantasy to deliver cautionary bedtime tales.

Here’s where you can stream these horror fairy tales this week.

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In Neil Jordan’s film, young Rosaleen falls asleep at her home and dreams of menacing wolves, many of which disguise themselves as men. All of which makes for...

Four and a half years ago, Lionsgate – a studio that had once been a prominent force in the horror genre, with releases like The Devil’s Rejects, Cabin Fever, the Hostel films, and of course the Saw franchise – announced that they were developing a genre project called Cobweb with the intention of taking back their “ownership” of horror. We’re now just one week away from having the chance to see the finished film, as Cobweb will be receiving a theatrical release on July 21st… and now a clip from the movie has arrived online, offering a preview of an awkward house visit scene. You can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Samuel Bodin, who created Netflix’s short-lived French horror series Marianne, from a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin (Leatherface), Cobweb has the following synopsis: Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside...

The horror festival runs August 24-28 in London

Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard will have its world premiere at the UK’s horror and fantasy film festival FrightFest (August 24-28) as the full line-up is unveiled.

Izzard will play Nina Jekyll, the infamous scientist with a dark alter-ego, in a modern adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s book by placing a woman in the titular role.

Doctor Jekyll is one of 25 world premieres screening at the festival, which takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London.

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One of this summer’s big theatrical releases for the horror genre is the Lionsgate movie Cobweb, which comes courtesy of director Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne.”

Cobweb hits theaters on July 21, and the horror film stars Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) as parents who seemingly can’t be trusted.

Lionsgate’s Cobweb has officially been Rated “R” this week for…

“Horror violence and some language.”

If you missed it, you can check out the official trailer below.

“Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?”

Cleopatra Coleman and Woody Norman also star.

Lionsgate has launched the trailer for horror ‘Cobweb’ featuring ‘The Boys’ very own Homelander, Antony Starr.

Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and question their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?

Directed by Samuel Bodin, the movie stars Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr (The Boys), Cleopatra Coleman (Infinity Pool) and Woody Norman (War of the Worlds).

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The movie hits UK cinemas on September 1st.

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The ominous sound of tapping within the walls leads to all manner of familial frights in the trailer for Cobweb ahead of its July 21st theatrical release.

Directed by Samuel Bodin and written by Chris Thomas Devlin, Cobweb stars Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, and Antony Starr. The film is produced by Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, James Weaver, and Josh Fagen.

Synopsis: Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?



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You don't normally expect to see Seth Rogen's name attached as producer of a horror movie, but the Point Grey company he runs with producing/writing partner Evan Goldberg backs all sorts of projects. Such as the scared-shaped Cobweb, which is headed our way in September and has a first trailer online.

Directed by Samuel Bodin from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin itself inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart, the new film follows eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman), who is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination.

As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?

Cleopatra Coleman co-stars as Miss Devine,...

Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr star in the upcoming horror movie Cobweb.

Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Caplan and Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?

Check out the brand new trailer ow.

Cobweb opens in theaters July 21st. The film is from writer Chris Thomas Devlin (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), producers Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen and directed by Samuel Bodin who helmed the very scary Netflix TV Series “Marianne.” Check it out as it’s a must-see for horror-fans and filled with jump-scares, a clever script and definitely leaves the viewer wanting another season.

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Woody Norman as...

Who — or what — is knocking on the wall? That’s the mystery at the center of Samuel Bodin’s feature directorial debut, “Cobweb,” which unveiled its first trailer on Wednesday.

As the trailer lays out, a young boy named Peter is hearing a chronic knocking behind his bedroom wall. But his overly amiable parents, played with menacing glee by Lizzy Caplan (“Fatal Attraction”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”), chalk it up to his overactive imagination. But as Peter becomes more afraid, the question is whether his parents might be involved in something horrifying.

There’s an old-school “Tales From the Crypt” vibe to everything, though the movie is playing up its echoes of “Barbarian,” aided by the fact that producer Roy Lee worked on both features. Caplan and Starr seem perfectly suited to playing frightening parents with a secret, more so if you’ve watched their previous work over the last year or so.