DBLurker It's like a fourth horror movie that involves web chat or social chat/gathering online, ending up in murders. Nothing new.That said, in the beginning, I had some hope and the movie wasn't exactly awfully produced with awful acting working in its favor. BUT, it goes downhill the moment director starts introducing the wonders of hacking taking over everything in protagonist's life. Even the cops can't track these amazing hackers (yes, the same agencies like NSA, tapped into our computers can't track down hackers killing people).Apart from Hollywood hacking, you lose all interest in the killers who are shown in full view wearing generic masks trying to look scary while killing in some of THE most mundane manner. I've seen more horrifying deaths on Liveleak.Overall, movie didn't do anything new and failed to bring something new to the genre of "social chat turning into murder", which is already stale after like 3-4 movies.I am giving it 3 cause the protagonist isn't a bad actress and did her job most of the time, convincingly.Also, I was going to watch Allied, no idea why I decided to watch a boring "horror" movie instead. I regret everything.

jhr2012 The movie starts out with some promise and actually has a plot. But eventually it becomes hard to follow the action with the camera bouncing all around. I fell asleep twice and became frustrated as I was having trouble determining who was who, and what exactly was going on. The idea that with all that was happening to her, the lead character would elect to leave her video camera on all night seems a bit far fetched. Had they managed to stick to the plot and do more character development versus sticking with the shaky camera, it would have been better.

i SkyWalKing Is it a cardinal rule that if you are doing a horror movie, you simply must NOT invest in some real actors? I understand budget and what not, and I'm not suggesting I need to see an overpaid actor to enjoy a film but ACTING should at least be a requirement. Otherwise, what is the point? Why even attempt at making a movie? I've seen just about every horror flick you can imagine and am generally willing to let the shortcomings go if everything else in the film works. But at a certain point, it can get extremely frustrating when you know a film has potential, yet it is all thrown down the gutter due to poor casting or minor details that should be easy to adjust. These things can make or break a movie. I have seen my fair share of Horror with superb acting (Martyrs, I spit on your grave, Under the Skin) to name a few off the top of the head. But more often than not, we are left with a bunch of no-name amateurs trying to portray real human emotions and fear, and it just absolutely kills the entire premise of the movie. This one falls victim to the latter. ...The acting starts off normal enough. I mean, considering the premise of the film, there really is not much acting involved for the main chunk of the film anyways. It's just people chatting online. Seems simple enough. So the main character has a couple of really thirsty male "friends" who are both desperately willing to bend over backwards for her because they clearly want to get into her pants. The two guys (one being a guy she is sleeping with) just come off so unnatural during the simplest exchanges in dialogue. I found myself enraged with hatred for them both and just wanted them to die. Every sentence and every reaction/action by the two seems so labored and unnatural it's cringe-worthy. Friends don't talk to each-other like this. Come on....Lucky for me, around the 26 minute mark the annoying boyfriend gets kidnapped.The second issue, illogical scenarios that just make no sense, whether it be the laws of physics that are being ignored etc. The third issue would be dumb human decisions within these movies. I can generally accept stupid human decisions because human beings make illogical decisions every day. It's somewhat believable that a person made a poor choice especially with the element of fear involved.But when terrible things start to happen to you ONLINE through your LAPTOP, the logical decision at a certain point (especially once you know your computer has been hacked & spying on you) would be to A) CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP when not on it & absolutely DO NOT have it pointing at your every move and do not discuss all your personal issues directly in front of it. B) Simply DISCONNECT your internet. ...but instead, we have the main character continue doing the same things by, sleeping in front of, talking in front and doing random things in front of her hacked, connected and open lap-top. Derp...All the side characters give uninspired labored performances. There is a scene where Elizabeth walks into her friends dark house AFTER all this stuff has already happened, refuses to turn any lights on, sees a leak coming from the washroom and instead of leaving she opens the door and walks in only to see her friend laying in a tub FULL of blood, and she barely has a reaction to it, just a simple "oh my god, wake up" I mean the overall acting is so poor that even when she is watching a fake 'youtube' video on guns, the guy in the YouTube video could not act his way out of a wet paper bag. The scene is so corny and so phony, that it really makes you wonder HOW they could accept this stuff in their final cut and be happy with it. I mean a YouTube video. A simple YouTube video...it is so contrived, so forced and so phony it really made me cringe.It was a decent enough concept otherwise. Definitely NOT original, but could have been a lot more enjoyable had the acting not been so frustrating. With a few minor tweaks to make things feel a little more realistic (considering there was nothing supernatural, and this movie was designed to fit reality). The decisions by the main character near the end just become too ridiculous. Its like she goes out of her way to be dumb. She ends up intentionally throwing her weapons away at every turn, intentionally running in circles instead of rationally trying to work her way out of the 'Den', not finishing the job when attempting to kill someone, responding to every IM request even as shes chained up and knows shes being toyed with, and not ripping the masks off the ones she does end up killing. I mean, come on. Even a broken clock is right two times a day...you have to make me half buy into the decisions being made. Overall I really wanted to like this movie because I do like the concept, original or not...and the one high point of the movie for me was the reveal that there were certainly a few cops involved as well. That I CAN believe. Cops are the most sadistic people on the planet next to military personnel. And the rest of the cops showed nothing but utter arrogance and incompetence, again very believable..

xristoff93 The idea behind this movie is pretty interesting.You get people communicating through webcam(like the unfriended abomination movie) and some very shaky cameras with characters running around(found footage.The result was disappointing to say the least.I mean a 6.1 out of 10?..IMDB at it's very finest once again.A girl makes a project about people and their everyday lives seen through webcam.During her talks with strangers through chat web sites,she encounters what appears to be a murder.She goes to the police but nothing happens and after that one by one,her friends are either dying or missing.Most of the times you see nothing interesting,just people wanting to see boobs online and human parts shaking all over the screen.It was pretty funny but not what I wanted from this movie.She goes to the police once again and while everyone seems to have gone completely dump,they either get killed or ignore her.The climax of the movie finds us in a dark basement with the protagonist being head strapped with a camera,her tormentors showing her videos of her friends getting killed and then she herself follows the same fate.While there are some interesting ideas here,like the whole webcam thing or how you are guided to believe that there is only one bad guy while in reality there is a whole organization behind these killings and they are showing them to people online after subscribe and pay or how this is all a thing because of the demand-so we are talking about the sickness-of everyday people(family men etc.) supporting this horrific scenario and giving it life,the plot is too simple,the acting is nothing special and the camera-play is too exhausting.While the movie is only 1h and 16 minutes,I thought it had lasted over an hour when it was ONLY at 40:00...The characters act in the exact way needed for them to die,so it gets on your nerves and for the most part you see pointless through-webcam interacting with strangers.The killings are nothing special either.You do not really get to know the characters so you feel nothing when they die.And they die in simple ways.I get the intention for the film to look realistic but they went too realistic,so it was boring.I was rooting for the bad guys,kill them so I can go to sleep.The only thing worth mentioning here is the protagonist's backside and the scene where she was getting some.....But go watch p*rn instead.4/10 from me....3 points for the ideas and 1 for her hot body.Do not have high expectations.