A Child’s Nightmare Becomes Everyone’s
When Cobweb was announced, horror aficionados had already begun salivating at the possibility of another fresh tale, intimate, spine-chilling, and profoundly psychological. The trailer, featuring the character of Peter, had him lying awake at night with strange muffled whispers emanating from within the walls of his bedroom. Parents with a seemingly odd and overly stern demeanor. Living shadows. The premise was again far from original – the perspective of the eagerly anticipated child terror, featuring monsters lurking in the dark – but the profound sense of dread had shifted. The issue was not simply phantoms. It was about the skeletons locked away in family vaults – the hush, and the truth: the child had figured out the parents placed on the pedestal as guardians could be hiding something of a more monstrous nature.
India’s audiences were, and still resonate with that thread more contextually than anticipated. While the stereotypical image of the stereotypical Indian child growing up in a family dwelling in a house with a private and secluded garden does not leap to the mind, each and every Indian child is educated and well aware of the family cultural ‘secrets’ which involve phenomena that are ignored and widely and deliberately spoken about as ‘not to be talked about.’ It is small wonder Cobweb has acquired traction and the attention of an audience far wider than its Western centric module of bias comprehension on Indian culture.
Lizzy Caplan and the Terrifying Familiarity of Motherhood
Lizzy Caplan has in the recent past, and as in the case of Peter’s mother, in a not very distant past, chosen roles which have a severe and sharp edge to them, with Cobweb being no exception. The difference in Caplan’s character in Cobweb is the excessiveness of dipping into the two inverse extremes. Slashing the character and tempering it with a tendril of motherly affection.
The diversity of performances in this piece is minimized by the Captions. For many here, the mother figure is a mix of warmth and fear, deeply loving but also disciplinarian and keeping “for the family’s good” some of the family secrets. In this duality, Caplan, in interviews, spoke of tapping into. Balanced a Hollywood career and motherhood, often candid with anxiety of children in an unpredictable world. That real life honesty, she bleeds into her character, giving her real life authenticity.
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Woody Norman and the Fragility of Childhood
Woody Norman is the emotional core of Cobweb as he plays the character of Peter. In the film his character displays a frightening amount of maturity for his age which is a trait Woody has been recognized for, particularly in his performance in C’mon C’mon. He plays the character of Peter with a perfect amount of innocence and terror as he embodies a child.
Indian audiences related to Peter’s situation all too well. How many children in our country are instructed to remain silent and to not, ‘make the family feel ashamed,’ in order to protect the social reputation of the family, especially in instances where something is wrong? That conflict, the conflict of a child who knows something but is not believed is a fear which is truly universal, and it is a fear which we all felt.
Media Buzz and Audience Conversations…
Reactions to shown to Cobweb were different, but people were equally passionate regardless of their opinions. The horror purists found marvel in the gothic touches, the stillness of the house, and the claustrophobic ambiance. The critics claimed the movie relied upon too many horror genre clichés like creaking houses and suspicious hushed voices. Both sides of the argument claimed the movie missed the point. It is not about the genre, it is about the suffocating dynamics of family secrets.
Discussions about the movie Cobweb in relation to India frequently surfaced on social media and were mostly about the social taboos of the family system. It is about how families choose to ignore uncomfortable endings. The phrase “log kya kahenge” is used to silence children and teach them not to ask uncomfortable questions. The term “cobweb” was used to describe the webs of silence that get intertwined in…
What the Fans Missed the First Time…
Beneath the jump scares, Cobweb hides several symbolic touches and all the scratching in the walls was not only supernatural but also represented Peter’s inner scratching to escape. The barred windows, the dim light, the silent dinners were all designed to show Peter’s entrapment visually. The doll Peter clung on to became a reminder of the child’s innocence which is needed to survive in a house, the house of lies.A significant number of fans appreciated the use of practical effects over the heavy use of CGI, which added to the grittiness of the horror. The use of whispered vocals, which were allegedly composed of layered tones of children’s voices, served to disorient both Peter and the audience simultaneously.
Cosimo’s Fear was the first to focus on the production’s cost. It was said the film did not have any extravagant sets. The film was made on a controlled set designed to represent a suburban home, which made it possible for the crew to manipulate the walls and corridors to create bizarre angles. The crew was, however, working within self-imposed boundaries which made the shoot “trapped in the same four walls” much like the characters.
Antony Starr was said to be ambivalent about accepting the role because of the possible striking resemblance to the creepy nuances of Homelander. But that is exactly the reason his character was sharp. Even Lizzy Caplan has confessed that the moment she had to play a horror mother made her ponder about her real parenting instincts. Did she at times appear to be too harsh to her children?
Google that film with the memorable leap of faith.
Cobweb is not a film which expresses fears that are grandiose with spectacle. Rather, it expresses fears that are slow. An example is the slow, soft sound of a creaking floor at your grandma’s house when it’s midnight. It thrived less on spectacle and more on system. For viewers of Indian origin, the more monstrous fear that lurked within was not the monster that hid within the walls, but rather the boundless silence that occupied the dining room. The unsaid, parent and child, harvested the weight of intricate languid and descending tradition and authority.
And that is the reason it had a lasting impact. This was not simply a Western horror tale. It was also a reflection on our households, where children were raised fearing the silence more than the darkness, there were uncluttered corners filled with secrets like dust.
As the credits rolled, the traces of Cobweb did not really disappear. They lingered within us, teasing us to ask the question: within our own families, what walls silence the sounds we are too frightened to uncover?
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