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.

Kraven the Hunter” really doesn’t work. It is, however, more diverting in the ways it doesn’t work than “Madame Web” and the very, very not-good “Morbius.” Like those two, this one’s a Sony Marvel origin story,

Luckily for Spider-Man fans, there are multiple villains introduced for the first time in “Kraven the Hunter.” Fred Hechinger plays the master of disguise Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola is the super-strong Rhino; Christopher Abbott is the mercenary the Foreigner; and Ariana DeBose is the mystical Calypso.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a muscular bore in the latest and maybe last entry in Sony's misbegotten franchise of Spider-Man movies without Spider-Man.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Spider-Man is one of the few Marvel heroes with a supporting cast and rogues gallery wide enough to support an entire cinematic universe. And that's exactly what Sony has been trying to do. Even as Tom Holland fans await word on when the next live-action Spidey movie will arrive,

Kraven the Hunter may have a worse opening weekend at the domestic box office than Madame Web. Kraven the Hunter is now playing in United States theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures. Potentially the last film to be set within Sony's Spider-man Universe,

Eight movies are all Sony Pictures gave their attempt at building a Spider-Man Universe... without Spider-Man. Why? So they could focus on Spider-Man. Confused yet?