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Tubi subscribers are quickly running out of time to stream Cobweb for free. Samuel Bodin’s 2023 directorial debut is listed on the streamer’s “leaving soon” list, meaning it will most likely exit at the end of the month. The movie is like a darker, more twisted version of Coraline and centers around a young boy navigating a creepy, distorted reality. Cobweb stars Woody Norman as Peter, an 8-year-old boy plagued by a mysterious tapping sound inside his bedroom wall that his overprotective parents insist is just his imagination. When he investigates, he discovers a dark, long-hidden familial secret.
Cobweb Is a Criminally Overlooked Horror Gem
If you haven’t seen Cobweb, the movie is definitely worth watching before its Tubi departure. The film is like a Halloween fairytale that excels at atmospheric horror and creates a palpable sense of unease and anxiety right from the beginning. Bodin’s use of creative lighting, shadow, and camera work crafts a claustrophobic atmosphere that is absolutely suffocating to the viewer, and the mix of storybook-like elements with a creepy aesthetic, such as a house that feels like a dollhouse and a rotting backyard, creates an unsettling and surreal environment. The movie also does an excellent job of delivering scares through a slow build of tension rather than constant, cheap jump scares, and it all results in a chaotic, high-stakes final act that is hard to forget.
