His attempts-"hanshotfirst," "covfefe," "feelthebern"-are of the moment, yet already dated, which is probably inevitable with a movie as relentlessly topical as Unfriended: Dark Web. Dark Web opens with Matias, or MattyFastWheelz (Matias O'Brien), trying to guess the password on the new laptop he filched from a coffee shop Lost & Found (he tells his friends he got it from Craigslist). Unfriended: Dark Web attempts a more realistic approach, excising the supernatural and replacing it with a super hacker able to listen in on any conversation, expunge chat records and manipulate reality as he sees fit. Computer stuff happened because, well, because billie227 could do whatever she wanted. In the first Unfriended, the ghost of a high school girl dead of suicide uses her spectral computer powers to kill her classmates via Skype chat. Dark Web may be gimmicky, but the peculiar restraints of the screen movie, plus the real-time narrative, create strange new ways to experience a story. But despite conceptual objections, first to Unfriended, and now its sequel Unfriended: Dark Web, there's just no getting around how much fun I've had with both movies. The entire concept feels like a cynical experiment, asking viewers to find satisfaction in blurry video chat windows, text messages and the fake life of the desktop environment, instead of the real and hyperreal possibilities of the medium. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "screen movie," which constrains cinema to the contents of a computer screen, is a micro-budget solution masquerading as a horror subgenre (similar to the nauseous decade of found footage we're only now escaping).
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