Year: 2015
Director: Levan Gabriadze
Ahh getting a bunch of teenagers together, make them annoying and offing them one by one – its a dance as old as time. This super low budget, $1million thou looks like 1000, fright flick happens on the laptop screen of one of the annoying teens as they are stalked online by someone (or something?) seeking revenge for their friend who committed suicide. I have seen a couple of reviews saying it will be incomprehensible to anyone over 25 due to its use of Skype, Youtube, Spotify, Chatroulette and Facebook. Purrrleasssee, granddad. Perhaps a younger audience may have some sympathy with the teen cast but I did share an internet troll attitude to their suffering – kill yourself and get over it. The novel presentation may be the most interesting part raising this above straight to DVD fare but as some good old teenage slaying quiet, quiet, BANG fun its worth checking out.
Might appeal to people who enjoyed:
The Blair Witch Project or similar “found footage” horror. The fact the two main characters are called Blaire and Mitch can’t be a co-incidence
I was surprised to hear Kermode give this a good review, and as a result I would possibly have checked it out, but for one thing; it’s shot on a hand held camera. I can’t watch more than 30 seconds of such footage without starting to feel as if someone has taken a magimix to my frontal lobes.
What about Cloverfield? I thought the handheld approach worked beautifully for that.
Cloverfield is ace. Exactly what a blockbuster monster flick should be.
The Kermode review was OTT IMHO its an solid piece of work with a smart gimmick. And they’re not handheld cameras, just laptop webcams. The picture breaks up and glitches but doesn’t move about in that way.