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* TooDumbToLive: Mark and Carol refuse to act with any sort of sense and behave as sinister as humanly possible, even giving disturbing anecdotes that can be interpreted as death threats to Peter when they know [[spoiler:his manipulative elder sister has been in his ear. This gets them killed when Peter poisons them under Sarah's direction.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: The little girl who died trick-or-treating years before the film's start. Was she killed by the parents after discovering Sarah's existence, or did Sarah herself kill her and the parents only buried the body to hide the evidence? Sarah claims the former is true, but she's later revealed to be a ManipulativeBitch, and the parents die before they can give their side.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The little girl who died trick-or-treating years before the film's start. Was [[spoiler:Was she killed by the parents after discovering Sarah's existence, or did Sarah herself kill her and the parents only buried the body to hide the evidence? Sarah claims the former is true, but she's later revealed to be a ManipulativeBitch, and the parents die before they can give their side.]]
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* AintTooProudToBeg: During the final act, [[spoiler:Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
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* AintTooProudToBeg: During the final act, [[spoiler:Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Sarah presents herself as wanting to protect her Peter from their insane parents when in reality, she wants to murder them and him after being locked away for so long.]]
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* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler:is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Sarah presents herself as wanting to protect her Peter from their insane parents when in reality, she wants to murder them and him after being locked away for so long.]]
* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]:BlackDudeDiesFirst: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler:is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Rat Poison. [[spoiler: Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Rat Poison.rat poison. [[spoiler: Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
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* AllThereInTheScript: Brian's cousin and his buddies are only named in the credits; Kevin is in the bunny mask, Lucious is in the cat mask, and Sean is in the pig mask.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtly threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself had murdered a young girl in the past, kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter as well.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtly threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself had murdered a young girl in the past, kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter as well.]]
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It can't be a dying curse when a person is merely locked up and not even injured
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* DyingCurse: Sarah [[spoiler: taunts Peter that she will always haunts him as he leaves her to perish in the basement. Although she might no be [[TheEndOrIsIt quite dead yet...]]]]
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* AbusiveParents: Carol and Mark are emotionally manipulative and controlling guardians whose treatment of Peter is severely disturbing to watch. [[spoiler: They were even worse to Sarah, locking her away and leaving her to die because she was born disfigured.]]
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* AintTooProudToBeg: During the final act [[spoiler: Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
* AxCrazy: Between Mark and her, Carol is clearly the more unstable of the two. [[spoiler: And Sarah is crazier than even her.]]
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but [[spoiler: clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Sarah presents herself as wanting to protect her Peter from their insane parents when in reality, she wants to murder them and him after beib locked away for so long.]]
* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler: Is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
* AxCrazy: Between Mark and her, Carol is clearly the more unstable of the two. [[spoiler: And Sarah is crazier than even her.]]
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but [[spoiler: clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Sarah presents herself as wanting to protect her Peter from their insane parents when in reality, she wants to murder them and him after beib locked away for so long.]]
* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler: Is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
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* AintTooProudToBeg: During the final act [[spoiler: Sarah act, [[spoiler:Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
* AxCrazy: Between Mark and her, Carol is clearly the more unstable of the two.[[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And Sarah is crazier than even her.]]
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but[[spoiler: clealy [[spoiler:clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing:[[spoiler: Sarah [[spoiler:Sarah presents herself as wanting to protect her Peter from their insane parents when in reality, she wants to murder them and him after beib being locked away for so long.]]
* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine[[spoiler: Is [[spoiler:is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
* AxCrazy: Between Mark and her, Carol is clearly the more unstable of the two.
* BittersweetEnding: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin, Cobweb stars Woody Norman as eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol (Creator/LizzyCaplan) and Mark. Mark (Creator/AntonyStarr). One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents (Creator/AntonyStarr and Creator/LizzyCaplan) are not what they seem...
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin, Cobweb stars Woody Norman as eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents (Creator/AntonyStarr and Creator/LizzyCaplan) are not what they seem...
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* AnimalMotifs: Spider for [[spoiler: Sarah.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Spider Spiders for [[spoiler: Sarah.]]
* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the film [[spoiler: Pete sees what may or may not be a vision of Sarah taunting him that she will always be with him]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While ostensibly only suffering from a skeletal deformity, [[spoiler: Sarah's]] unnatural movement, ability to survive what might have been decades locked away, and appearance at the end of the movie imply there might be something supernatural about her.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtly threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter himself as well.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtly threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself had murdered a young girl in the past, kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter himself as well.]]
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* BittersweetEndig: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but [[spoiler: clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
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* AxCrazy: Between Mark and her' Carol is clearly the more unstable of the two. [[spoiler: And Sarah is crazier than even her.]]
* BittersweetEndig: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but [[spoiler: clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
* BittersweetEndig: The film ends with Peter happily adopted by Miss Devine and free of his abusive parents, but [[spoiler: clealy still haunted by the memory of his monstrous sister.]]
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin, Cobweb stars Woody Norman as Eight-year-old eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents are not what they seem...
* BodyHorror: [[BigBad Sarah]] was born with deformed limbs, leaving resembling an exaggerated and distended parody of a person.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtely subtly threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter himself as well.]]
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin.
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin, Cobweb stars Woody Norman as Eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents are not what they seem...
A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin.
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin.
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* DyingCurse: Sarah [[spoiler: taunts Peter that she will always haunts him as he leaves her to perish in the basement. Although she might no be [[TheEndOrIsIt quite dead yet...]]
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* DyingCurse: Sarah [[spoiler: taunts Peter that she will always haunts him as he leaves her to perish in the basement. Although she might no be [[TheEndOrIsIt quite dead yet...]]]]]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miss Devine, who shows kindness and concern to a troubled Peter throughout the film and [[spoiler: adopts him at the end.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miss Devine, who shows kindness and concern to a troubled Peter throughout the film and [[spoiler: adopts him at the end.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Spider for [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Sarah.]]
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* AintToProudToBeg: During the final act [[spoiler: Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
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* AbnormalLimbRoationRange: [[SpiderPeople Sarah]] was born with severely disfigured limbs and uses them throughout the climax to perform strange and horrific feats of acrobatics.
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* AintToProudToBeg: During the final act [[spoiler: Sarah begs her brother not to leave trapped in the basement again before taunting him that she will always haunt him.]]
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* ChekovsGun: The Rat Poison. [[Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
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* ChekovsGun: BlueOniRedOni: Mark is the calm and cool Blue Oni to his wife Carol's erratic and paranoid Red Oni.
* CainAndAbel: Sarah is the Cain to Peter's Abel. [[spoiler: After being locked away in the basement for years by their parents, she began hating Peter, jealous of the love they showed him and not her.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The Rat Poison.[[Later [[spoiler: Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
* CainAndAbel: Sarah is the Cain to Peter's Abel. [[spoiler: After being locked away in the basement for years by their parents, she began hating Peter, jealous of the love they showed him and not her.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The Rat Poison.
* DyingCurse: Sarah [[spoiler: taunts Peter that she will always haunts him as he leaves her to perish in the basement. Although she might no be [[TheEndOrIsIt quite dead yet...]]
** Sarah: "I was born this way and no one loves a monster."
* HopeSpot: While locked in the basement by his parents, Peter hears his teacher Miss Devine show up and tries to get her attention. He nearly succeeds, but his parents are able to play it off as the washing machine.
* HopeSpot: While locked in the basement by his parents, Peter hears his teacher Miss Devine show up and tries to get her attention. He nearly succeeds, but his parents are able to play it off as the washing machine.
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* SpiderPeople: Sarah greatly resembles a humanoid spider, with long, distended limbs and a trail of dark hair like a line of web.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtely threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter himself as well.]]
* SpiderPeople: Sarah greatly resembles a humanoid spider, with long, distended limbs and a trail of dark hair like a line of web.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[AbusiveParents Mark and Carol]] subtely threaten their son Peter throughout the film. [[spoiler: Not to mention that they actively tried to kill their daughter Sarah when she was young.]] [[spoiler: Sarah herself kills Peter's bully during the climax and tries to kill Peter himself as well.]]
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A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin. Is stars eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents are not what they seem...
!!This film provides examples of:
*AbnormalLimbRoationRange: [[SpiderPeople Sarah]] was born with severely disfigured limbs and uses them throughout the climax to perform strange and horrific feats of acrobatics.
*AbusiveParents: Carol and Mark are emotionally manipulative and controlling guardians whose treatment of Peter is severely disturbing to watch. [[spoiler: They were even worse to Sarah, locking her away and leaving her to die because she was born disfigured.]]
*[[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler: Is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
*ChekovsGun: The Rat Poison. [[Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
*CoolTeacher: Miss Devine is kind and attentive to Peter and grows concerned as she learns of his troubled homelife.
*FreudianExcuse: [[CainAndAbel Sarah]] [[spoiler: was born severely disfigured and so her parents left her to die by locking her in the basement, leading her to develop a deep loathing for both them and her brother, Peter.]]
*MadWomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler: Mark and Carol locked Sarah away in the basement for her disfigured appearance]].
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miss Devine, who shows kindness and concern to a troubled Peter throughout the film and [[spoiler: adopts him at the end.
*TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the film [[spoiler: Pete sees what may or may not be a vision of Sarah taunting him that she will always be with him]].
A 2023 Horror-Thriller movie directed by Samuel Bodin. Is stars eight-year-old Peter who lives with his overbearing, yet emotionally distant parents, Carol and Mark. One night, Peter hears the voice of a young girl speaking to him from within his bedroom walls who warns him that his parents are not what they seem...
!!This film provides examples of:
*AbnormalLimbRoationRange: [[SpiderPeople Sarah]] was born with severely disfigured limbs and uses them throughout the climax to perform strange and horrific feats of acrobatics.
*AbusiveParents: Carol and Mark are emotionally manipulative and controlling guardians whose treatment of Peter is severely disturbing to watch. [[spoiler: They were even worse to Sarah, locking her away and leaving her to die because she was born disfigured.]]
*[[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Chick Dies First]]: Subverted. Miss Devine [[spoiler: Is the only other surviving character of the film other than Peter.]]
*ChekovsGun: The Rat Poison. [[Later in the film, Peter uses it to kill his parents by poisoning their supper.]]
*CoolTeacher: Miss Devine is kind and attentive to Peter and grows concerned as she learns of his troubled homelife.
*FreudianExcuse: [[CainAndAbel Sarah]] [[spoiler: was born severely disfigured and so her parents left her to die by locking her in the basement, leading her to develop a deep loathing for both them and her brother, Peter.]]
*MadWomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler: Mark and Carol locked Sarah away in the basement for her disfigured appearance]].
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miss Devine, who shows kindness and concern to a troubled Peter throughout the film and [[spoiler: adopts him at the end.
*TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the film [[spoiler: Pete sees what may or may not be a vision of Sarah taunting him that she will always be with him]].
