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''The Spider'', also called ''The Spider: A Horror Spider-Man Fan Film'', is a 2024 FanFilm directed and written by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous.
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''The Spider'' Spider'', also called ''The Spider: A Horror Spider-Man Fan Film'', is a 2024 FanFilm directed and written by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous.
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''The Spider'' is a 2024 short film FanFilm directed and written by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous.
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''The Spider'' is a 2024 short film directed and written by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous
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*DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The short ends with a half mutated Peter killing both his uncle and aunt before further mutating into a half-spider monster, with TheStinger implying that he will go on to kill more people.]]
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: [[spoiler:Becoming Spider-Man in this version involves Peter seemingly becoming a mindless monster that kills, though that's probably a mercy considering what he ends up doing.]]
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: [[spoiler:Becoming Spider-Man in this version involves Peter seemingly becoming a mindless monster that kills, though that's probably a mercy considering what he ends up doing.doing at the end, killing ''Uncle Ben and Aunt May''.]]
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* BloodierAndGorier: Since it's a horror take on Spider-Man's origin story, there is much more blood than is seen in the comics.
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Peter is shown to have mutated further into a monster that is impossible to recognise as once being human and kills a nameless woman.]]
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* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Peter is shown to have mutated further into a monster that is impossible to recognise as once being human and kills a nameless woman.woman, after butchering ''Aunt May and Uncle Ben''.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' ''tearing the skin off.off''.
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''The Spider'' is a 2024 short film directed and written by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous
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* {{Expy}}: Peter in this version has more in common with [[Film/TheFly1986 Seth Brundle]] than more traditional versions of the character.
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* {{Expy}}: Peter in this version has more in common with [[Film/TheFly1986 Seth Brundle]] than more traditional with other versions of the character.
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* BloodierAndGorier: Since it's a horror take on Spider-Man's origin story, there is much more blood than is seen in the comics.
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: [[spoiler:Becoming Spider-Man in this version involves Peter seemingly becoming a mindless monster that kills, though that's probably a mercy considering what he ends up doing.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Peter in this version has more in common with [[Film/TheFly1986 Seth Brundle]] than more traditional versions of the character.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Instead of a great hero, Peter is a TragicVillain in this film.
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* BodyHorror: This ends up happening to Peter when his teeth starts falling out, ending with him [[spoiler:mutating into a half-spider monster when killing his aunt and uncle, before later becoming a giant spider creature in TheStinger]].
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* CompositeCharacter: This Peter Parker is a combination of his canon self, with his loving aunt and uncle along with his traditional supporting cast, and the origin of Patton Parnel, his CorruptedCharacterCopy from ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse''.
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* GenreDeconstruction: This short deconstructs the entire idea of a SuperheroOrigin by showing that it's ultimately dumb luck whether being bitten by a genetically altered spider results in a teenager developing amazing superpowers or [[spoiler:mutating into a nightmarish monster]].
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* TragicVillain: Peter is just a ordinary teenager who did nothing wrong except be bitten by a random spider on a school trip like with every other version of his origin story. Except instead of gaining amazing powers and becoming a superhero, he [[spoiler:mutates into a violent monster that starts killing people]].
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* TheCameo: Both Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are seen as classmates of Peter, while J.Jonah Jameson is seen on the TV.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is instead hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is instead hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
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* TheCameo: Both Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are seen as classmates of Peter, while J. Jonah Jameson is seen on the TV.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter isinstead hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is
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''The Spider'' is a 2024 short film directed by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous
The film can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tc2YlCqCk here]].
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!!Tropes
* TheCameo: Both Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are seen as classmates of Peter, while J.Jonah Jameson is seen on the TV.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is instead hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
* FromBadToWorse: Despite the very brutal discovering of his wall crawling abilities, the film at first plays the origin completely straight. It's only when Peter starts throwing up and some of his teeth fall out that things truly go off the rails, with the result being that [[spoiler:Peter ends up mutating into a half-spider monster, kills two paramedics, his uncle and aunt, and a random woman in TheStinger]].
* MythologyGag: When discovering that he can crawl on walls and has super strength, Peter goes out and starts leaping across rooftops much like in the original ''Film/SpiderMan1'' film.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Peter is shown to have mutated further into a monster that is impossible to recognise as once being human and kills a nameless woman.]]
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''The Spider'' is a 2024 short film directed by Andy Chen and produced by Kealani Kitaura, Artin John, & Creator/ChandlerRiggs (of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' fame) who also stars as the title character. It is a DarkerAndEdgier horror reimagining of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', with the film showing a familiar origin of young Peter Parker being bitten by a spider on a school trip, which causes a startling transformation. Except things quickly goes FromBadToWorse as Peter finds himself transforming into something horrific and dangerous
The film can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tc2YlCqCk here]].
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!!Tropes
* TheCameo: Both Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are seen as classmates of Peter, while J.Jonah Jameson is seen on the TV.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The film starts out following a very traditional origin for the character, with Peter being bitten by the spider and then walking home. Except instead of leaping out of the path of a car onto a wall and discovering his powers, Peter is instead hit by the car and the driver tries to rob him him, with Peter grabbing hold of his hand and accidentally ''tearing'' the skin off.
* FromBadToWorse: Despite the very brutal discovering of his wall crawling abilities, the film at first plays the origin completely straight. It's only when Peter starts throwing up and some of his teeth fall out that things truly go off the rails, with the result being that [[spoiler:Peter ends up mutating into a half-spider monster, kills two paramedics, his uncle and aunt, and a random woman in TheStinger]].
* MythologyGag: When discovering that he can crawl on walls and has super strength, Peter goes out and starts leaping across rooftops much like in the original ''Film/SpiderMan1'' film.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Peter is shown to have mutated further into a monster that is impossible to recognise as once being human and kills a nameless woman.]]
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