"This is an old house... there's bound to be some bumps in the night."
An intriguing - and very scary looking - new horror film from Samuel Bodin, creator and director of Netflix's Marianne, is heading to theaters next month, and the first trailer and poster are now online.
In Cobweb, a lonely, bullied, 8-year-old boy named Peter (Woody Norman) begins to hear knocks coming from inside the wall of his bedroom. The lad tells his parents, played by Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Party Down) and Antony Starr (The Boys), but they seem even more sinister than the taps keeping him up at night.
Peter's folks try to convince him that it's his "overactive imagination" playing tricks, but it soon becomes clear that they are hiding a dark, seemingly supernatural secret.
Chris Thomas Devlin penned the script, which is loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart.
Check out the creepy trailer below, and let us know what you think.
"Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents, Carol & Mark, could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that? "
Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth, Rebel Moon) also stars as Peter's concerned teacher, but based on what we see in the teaser, she probably won't make it to the end credits!
Cobweb is set to release in theaters on July 21.