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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Watch Official Miles Morales Horror Short ‘The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story’ Here!

An official Spider-Verse short film from Sony Pictures Animation, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story brings a little horror to the world of Miles Morales this morning.

Watch The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story below!

The animated short film sees Miles Morales’ anxieties and pressures taking the form of nightmarish threats, leading him to finally do the most important thing anyone can do in a situation where they’re personally overwhelmed and at their breaking point: talk to someone.

What’s the story here, you ask? Sony Pictures Animation has teamed up with the Kevin Love Fund on The Spider Within, which uses horror elements to send its important message to young audiences in particular. The short film will be incorporated into the Kevin Love Fund’s new mental health focused lesson plan, “The Hero Within.” The lesson plan invites students to tell their own story through the lens of mental health awareness via an interactive curriculum including a creative storyboard activity. Visit kevinlovefund.org for additional information.

In 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 is directed by Jarelle Dampier and written by Khaila Amazan. Dampier had teased the short film last year, “My favorite genre is horror. I think it’s the perfect envelope to give great messages out, especially to younger audiences, and I think it’s something that we’ve kind of shied away from for a long time.”