Sony Pictures Animation world premiered its boundary-pushing short The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story tackling mental health at the Annecy International Film Festival on Monday.
Spinning off the world of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse, the short shows its Marvel Comics protagonist Miles Morales/Spider suffering from an anxiety attack as he feels overwhelmed over school work, exams and relationships.
His fears are manifested by a dark figure representing his alter ego as well as an imaginary infestation of spiders in his bedroom.
It ends on a lighter note as turns to his father Jefferson “Jeff” Morales, with the short also tapping into importance of strong father and son relationships.
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