Cobweb - The scoop and digest

Samuel Bodin's feature debut is written by Chris Thomas Devlin and loosely inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Lizzy Caplan - Carol

Antony Starr - Mark

Cleopatra Coleman - Miss Devine

Woody Norman - Peter

Summary

One week before Halloween in Holdenfield (surely a play on Haddonfield), eight-year-old social outcast Peter is regularly bullied at school.

After Peter reveals he wants to go trick-or-treating, parents forbid him because a little girl vanished on the same night years ago.

Substitute teacher Miss Devine grows concerned when Peter draws a scary picture. 

A voice inside his bedroom wall manipulates wee lad, insisting parents are 'evil'.

Don't let her out

What begins as a fairly creepy psychological horror is nearly ruined by silly second part.

Peter's sister Sarah was born deformed and Carol and Mark reacted to her appearance by hiding oil painting away.

During feral existence in darkness, she learned how to climb and bite by watching spiders and rats respectively.

Behaviour and design smacks of Ju-On: The Grudge, Ring and Regan's famous spider walk in The Exorcist.

Excuse me, but evolving into a supernatural monster makes absolutely no fucking sense.

Also, Sarah is able to rip people apart, yet Miss Devine subdues freak with relative ease.

(Shakes head).

True to her word, Sarah manages to escape basement and appears behind sibling who has since been adopted by Devine.

Considering hatch was chained and padlocked, how exactly?

Ha ha ha!