There’s a saying among filmmakers about comedy movies and that is you can’t keep them on the shelf for long or else they’ll go stale. The same is equally true about superhero films, and it’s a fate that Sony’s Kraven the Hunter suffered this past weekend,

Towards the end of Sony Picture's newest Marvel movie "Kraven the Hunter," the titular anti-hero - played with maximum abdominal musculature by Aaron Taylor-Johnson - experiences a chilling hallucination in which he's surrounded by a horde of spiders.

That means J C Chandor’s R-rated action adventure, whose $110m budget swelled from an initial $90m due to strike and pandemic-related delays, has delivered the worst opening weekend ever by any Sony-Marvel release, outdoing even Madame Web, which has endured infamy since it opened in February on $15.3m and went on to finish on $43.8m.