Genre:
Horror
Directed
by: Zachary Donahue
Cast:
Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Adam Shapiro
Running
time: 81 minutes
Elizabeth receives a grant to conduct a
social experiment on a webcam-based social media website called The Den. Her
plan is to talk to as many people from around the world as she can. After
having a few weird and interesting conversations, she comes upon a user whose
webcam seems to be broken. Soon enough, that same webcam cuts to a girl who
gets murdered by a mysterious man in her room. As she tries to investigate the
matter, with not much help from her entourage, Elizabeth soon becomes the
target of a stalker, through that same webcam account.
The Den uses the found footage style of
horror with most images of the film being shot through webcams. While I find
this style a tad gimmicky and I feel that it gets old fast, at least, with this
film, they kept it short. The story is compelling and is effective at keeping
us wondering what will happen next. We have all wondered how safe we really are
while using the Internet.
I must admit I found it funny to see the
stalkers easily disposing of all these people, except for the main character:
this small young woman who turns into Ronda Rousey in an octagon all of a sudden,
when push comes to shove.
Nonetheless, if you don’t mind horror films
of the found footage style, you might want to give this one a shot.
Rating:
«««
No comments:
Post a Comment