American horror movies always keep pace with the times. I used to think that scary tactics are just that: supernatural and mysterious phenomena, horror movie villains who talk about gods and gods. Changes come and go, nothing more than some details of modification and creativity. However, the imagination of American filmmakers can really surprise you forever.
This film is a unique "computer desktop movie" after the so-called fixed-lens monitor-style film was created in "Ghost Record". 99.99% of the scenes did not depart from the content on the computer screen familiar to modern people. All information acquisition and creation of a horror atmosphere are achieved through a combination of software content such as group video chat, online chat tools, facebook, email, and Google search. The previous supernatural horror movies always frightened the audience through some supernatural phenomena that could not be explained by physical theories. But this film only makes people scary through the combination of normal phenomena of computer software. There is almost no supernatural phenomenon, but you can deeply feel that it is unreasonable and inexplicable. For example, people who can't be kicked away in a chat group, pictures of lagging in a video group chat, photos and videos uploaded inexplicably on one's personal homepage, friends who can't be removed on social networking sites, and so on. All are closely related to the current Internet society, and all are fresh and scary methods. It cannot be shown in horror movies before the Internet penetrates into people's lives.
The plot of the film is relatively simple, condemning collective bullying on campus. Has a certain social practical significance.
But watching this movie is also tiring, especially for people in non-English speaking countries, because you not only have to listen to the chat content in the video chat, but also pay attention to the news, emails, and search engine searches that suddenly appear in every corner of the computer. (The damage of the multi-window operating system) You have to watch the subtitles on the full screen, not just staring at the subtitles in the language below.
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