Film Review – Cobweb

Screenwriter Chris Thomas Devlin, who scripted 2022’s lame “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” reworking, returns to the darkness with “Cobweb,” which is another genre effort from a person who struggled to come up with something passably menacing for a horror icon to do. Thankfully, the stakes are lower this time around, as Devlin returns with a haunted house story in way, taking inspiration from the work of Edgar Allan Poe to generate a fear factor for “Cobweb,” which examines the terror of a young boy stuck in a house that contains something living behind the walls. Director Samuel Bodin is tasked with conjuring the creeps for viewers in the mood for sinister business occurring around a static location. He has some fun ideas for nightmare imagery, but the writing clearly struggles to provide a feature-length experience with short film material, adding some unnecessary stillness to a premise that should be played as swiftly as possible. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com