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I really enjoyed the movie right up to the final act, when it became something completely different from what it was set up to be.

Everything that happened in the final fifteen minutes bordered from laughable to moronic, and none of it made any sense.

Why would bullies expect the boy to be home alone? What was their plan? If parents were home, wouldn't they just call the police?

How come the monster was easily able to tear everyone else limb from limb but could just barely scratch the teacher and was easily overpowered by the child?

And what's with that ending? Does it imply that the boy and the teacher aren't going to tell anyone? And the boy is going to live at the house alone? What? Are they also going to hide all those bodies? Why would they? Wouldn't they just call the police?

I heard these inconsistencies being explained by the movie being from a child's perspective, but I find it really hard to suspend my disbelief when the rest of it is so grounded in reality.

To me, it just comes off as them not knowing how to finish the movie in a way that would make at least a tiny bit of sense.

It has be bewildered that so much effort was put into the beginning of the movie only to shoot itself in the foot in the second act. What started out as a tense, creepy and mysterious movie ended with some b movie vibe nonsensical creature feature. Dont get me wrong who doesn't like a good creature feature, but this one made no sense at all. It was a big jump in the script that really didn't work out. One minute you're thinking "is it a ghost, is it a human, hmm" next minute "NO its angry deformed telekinetic spider sister". And if you think that's a big jump you probably won't like the jump from eerie horror to cheesy action movie either.

This film had a sinister mood, fantastic lighting, great acting and a script that resonated like a Grimm's fairy tale.

The parents are by far the most compelling part of the movie. The actors portray them in such a way that no part of this film feels slow and it's always menacing even though nothing technically happens for 3/4 of the runtime.

There are only 2 things that keep this from being 10-star, required Halloween viewing, for me:

The first is minor- the teacher should've contacted the police at least 3 separate times and it's not believable that she didn't- especially at the end.

The second is major- the ending introduced an unforgivable plot hole (the sister could've broken through the dry wall to escape at anytime) that only exists because she is so freakishly strong.

In the perfect ending, she is weak and malnourished when she is let out, but still scary looking and evil. She still kills all the same people, but in creative ways that don't require supernatural strength.

Still a great, under-the-radar watch. I just feel like there's a perfect movie right there, and they just missed it.

At night, eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) hears noises coming from behind his bedroom wall, but his mother and father (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) say that it is the result of an overactive imagination -- or rats. Eventually a voice reaches out to Peter from behind the wall, warning him to be wary of his parents.

There are three things about Cobweb that should make me hate it: the lead character is a young kid, the pacing is extremely slow-burn, and the 'monster' is one of those scuttling, creepy, lank-haired women that have proliferated horror ever since The Grudge and Ringu. However, I am happy to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the film, despite the somewhat derivative plot (I'm not at all surprised that it's from the producers of Barbarian and IT) and one major niggle*.

Woody Norman is actually very good in the central role -- not the least bit irritating and very believable -- and he is given able support from Caplan and Starr as Peter's very strange parents. Director Samuel Bodin maintains a very deliberate pace but ensures that there is enough going on to keep the viewer engaged, with a particularly shocking scene involving soup. Things eventually get crazy in the final act, when we finally get to see what is lurking behind the walls, Bodin delivering plenty of scares and a smattering of gore.

While it's not what I would consider groundbreaking, what it does it does well. 7/10.

*If the 'monster' is strong enough to tear people in half, surely it could break a hole through the wall and escape from its prison.

A pre pre halloween tweezer, gives you a relentless start of the darker nights that follows the fall season, a pretty well orchestrated movie with much sound and screaming, well composed music for the plot, but, and that is a big but...its filmed in a far too dark visuals production, so who hung the lights up, vuff vuff vuff vuff...a decent kick in the bucket for choosing that amount of darkness covering up the plot,act and action at the height of the climax of this horror feature. So if you have night googles,use them, mine didnt work so.

Anyway, its a film about sturdy parenting of a bullied child hearing voices in his head, i bet youll know the recepie, just a 6 from the grumpy old man.

I've seen many movies that started off great and went down the drain in the second or third act but this one takes the cake. It gets so extra over the top excessively extremely ridiculous (you see what I did there?) towards the end that there's no saving it. Plot armour after plot armour after plot armour. Then plot convenience after plot convenience after plot convenience. The movie is good till 30 minutes or so but after that it gets so dragged unnecessarily and everything that happens afterwards is highly stupid.

1. The girl has super strength but can't even open the door when the teacher locks her out. (I could have still let it go but then one stupid thing after the another keeps happening) 2. The girl can kill everyone in seconds but takes her own sweet time when it comes to the teacher.

3. The boy is usually emotional but stops caring about his parents instantly.

4. He listens to the girl instead of calling 911.

5. He continues living in the same house and that too without a guardian.

6. The girl still lives there and isn't institutionalized.

Nah, way too much foolishness.

So at first they're trying to trick you into thinking that the parents are nutjobs. But after they're no longer in the picture, they're showing a completely different story. I have so many questions that went unanswered. Why did the parents kept the monster? Why didn't the monster kill the parents? She certainly strong enough to tear apart 3 semi-grown-up boys plus a handicapped little one. What's the connection between this family and the missing girl from way back then? It's so weird how they went with this direction. It'll be more believable if they just turned the monster into a bogeyman or something similar. Cause trying to think a girl can climb up the walls like spider-man, and slice and dice people like Jason Vorhees is the least believable thing in this world. No matter what you feed her, she can't have super strength and climbing ability. Too bad, cause the horror part was pretty scary and the parents are pretty creepy. I can't give a rating less than 5, cause of the horror vibe was pretty good.