| “ | Not every child can be as perfect as you, Peter. I was just born this way. And no one loves a monster. | „ |
| ― Sarah |
Sarah Kall is the primary antagonist of the 2023 horror-thriller film Cobweb. Trapped in the walls of the house, Sarah starts to communicate with eight-year-old Peter, where she tells him a dark secret his parents have been hiding.
She was portrayed by Aleksandra Dragova and voiced by Debra Wilson.
History[]
Sarah was the first-born child of Mark and Carol, although their joy was soon squashed when Sarah came out deformed and monstrous looking. Fearful over what they have created, Mark and Carol locked her away in a secret wall of their house located behind a hidden door in their bedroom, blocked by a grandfather clock.
She grew up isolated and dangerous. Sarah's hair had never been cut, and her long nails sharpened into talons of which she taught herself how to climb quickly across walls. One night on Halloween several years back, she managed to escape and killed a little girl down the street. Mark and Carol found her and buried the body of the young girl in the backyard to protect their secret and conceal Sarah's identity.
Sarah lay in wait for many years when her parents gave birth to their second child, Peter. She waited until he was old enough to manipulate him into helping her escape. Sarah managed to sneakily knock through a hole in wall of her room that allowed her to travel through passages between rooms, directly leading to the other-side of the wall where Peter's bedroom is. She started to tap on the walls, even knocking back at him. Terrified, Peter was convinced by his parents that it was just all in his imagination. She then started speaking to him, and was easily able to influence him due to his lonely, isolated nature. She even convinced him to take revenge on a bully at school, which resulted in his expulsion. Sarah tells him that she is his sister and that they plan to kill her soon, then once she is gone, Mark and Carol will lock him away. The only way to stop them is to kill them, she tells him.
One evening, Peter spikes his parents meal using rat poison which results in their death. Carol's final words are "don't let her out" but Peter ignores her, pushes the grandfather clock over and unlocks the door. Sarah emerges, revealing her monstrous appearance and that she had been manipulating him this entire time. He is then locked into the room Sarah was being kept. While in the house, Peter's bully Brian returns with his cousin and other teenagers to get revenge. They enter the house and are picked off one by one violently by Sarah.
His teacher, Miss Devine arrives to check on Peter and sees the horror inside the house. Sarah attacks her but she manages to defend herself and frees Peter. They run out of the house but Sarah grabs him last minute and drags him inside. She throws him into a chamber in the floor located in the basement. She tells him that when she was born, they screamed and were scared of her but when Peter was born, they were overjoyed and planned her revenge on all of them.
Miss Devine heads into the basement and is attacked by Sarah, but Peter grabs onto Sarah's long hair and pulls her back from killing her. He uses her hair to climb out of the chamber and with Miss Devine, force Sarah into it. They lock the only entrance and trap her inside. Sarah tells Peter that she will escape and that he will spend his life looking over his shoulder in fear.