THE SPIDER WITHIN: A SPIDER-VERSE STORY - Watch Sony Pictures Animation's Horror-Tinged Short Film Here!

THE SPIDER WITHIN: A SPIDER-VERSE STORY - Watch Sony Pictures Animation's Horror-Tinged Short Film Here!

Sony Pictures Animation has just released the full version of The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, a new short film revolving around Miles Morales/Spider-Man battling his anxiety. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Mar 27, 2024 10:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Into The Spider-Verse
Source: Toonado.com

Sony Pictures Animation has just dropped The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story short film in its entirety, a project developed alongside the Kevin Love Fund. Why? Because everyone is going through something, even superheroes like Spider-Man. 

This Spider-Verse-set tale will be incorporated into the Kevin Love Fund's new mental health-focused lesson plan, "The Hero Within." That invites students to tell their own story through the lens of mental health awareness through an interactive curriculum including a creative storyboard activity. 

In the genre-bending thriller, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, Miles Morales struggles to balance his responsibilities as a teenager, friend, and student while acting as Brooklyn's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

After a particularly challenging day living with these pressures, Miles experiences a panic attack that forces him to confront the manifestations of his anxiety and learn that reaching out for help can be just as brave an act as protecting his city from evil.

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story was developed and produced in the inaugural year of Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks' Leading and Empowering New Storytellers program, a 9-month leadership training program that provides candidates from underrepresented groups with an opportunity to gain valuable leadership experience in animation.

"Miles represents so many of us doing the best we can in our day-to-day lives," Jarelle Dampier, director of The Spider Within, said earlier this month. "We don’t often realize all that we’ve been through until our own body forces us to become aware of its experience."

"My intention is that 'The Spider Within' can motivate deeper conversations amongst friends & family about their own mental health journeys - and I hope it feels like a love letter to those who adore Miles Morales."

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story was written by Khaila Amazan, and produced by LENS program creators Michelle Raimo-Kouyate and David Schulenburg.

There's still no word on when Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse will be released in theaters after it lost its original March 2024 release date due to last year's Hollywood strikes. This will tide us over for now, but here's hoping we get an update on the threequel sooner rather than later.

Watch the full The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story short in the player below (via Toonado.com).

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litobirdy
litobirdy - 3/27/2024, 10:21 AM
this short was BEYOND pointless
CerealKiller1
CerealKiller1 - 3/27/2024, 10:31 AM
@litobirdy - Well I’m sure there are plenty of people that do deal with anxiety who appreciate seeing this kind of thing represented in media by characters they like. Hardly ‘pointless’, just ‘not for you’
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 3/27/2024, 11:46 AM
@litobirdy - I don't see this as a pointless mofo. As a person who has an anxiety problem, it represents me as me to counter the anxiety attack. this is what it would look like to fight anxiety bro
Amuro
Amuro - 3/27/2024, 10:32 AM
Cool short and very clever. I like that the Spider-verse saga really takes time to show its characters as "real" people with flaws; complex emotions and anxieties.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/27/2024, 10:44 AM
That was a decent little short and as someone who is dealing with anxiety , much appreciated aswell…

Makes me wish I had something like this as a teenager but I’m glad kids do now atleast.

Please seek out help if need be , nothing wrong in asking for it 😊…

Taking care of your mental health just as important as saving the day , world or multiverse.

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CerealKiller1
CerealKiller1 - 3/27/2024, 10:59 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Well said my friend!
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 3/27/2024, 11:13 AM
Well, not bad... Just kind of uneventful. Felt more like a clip from a film than a short. Miles comes home, has a nightmare, and then takes a walk with his dad. What was he upset about specifically? Not sure. I enjoy seeing the characters and the animation style again, but the whole thing felt a little bit pointless
Oskir
Oskir - 3/27/2024, 11:25 AM
@Izaizaiza - To me it is pretty obvious his anxiety is from balancing between his superhero life and its responsabilty and his personal life with homeworks, his parents and hidding Spiderman from them
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 3/27/2024, 11:43 AM
@Oskir - Yeah, that seemed to be the general issue. Again, I didn't dislike it...just underwhelmed and disappointed
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/27/2024, 4:24 PM
@Izaizaiza - A lot of times panic attacks come from general things rather than specific things. It's the everything getting on top of him thing.

If this were longer it would have just been a spider-man movie, so it's relying on the fact that we've seen the movies and know who the character is. And the character, whether Miles, Pete, Gwen or whoever, always has a lot on their plate.
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 3/27/2024, 4:28 PM
@ObserverIO - Sure, but as a narrative...even just a 7 minute short, this doesn't do very much, IMO. But, whatever! I like the film series, so I'm happy to get little crumbs of content... Even if I think it could have been done better
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/27/2024, 11:40 AM
Don't see how it is genre-bending or horror even, but it was kinda intense. Guess your sleep paralysis demon is only there to help you. Even if it doesn't look like it
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 3/27/2024, 4:21 PM
This was really good.

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