The actors all do their best with what are uniquely challenging circumstances. The film as a whole is not nearly as effective as its predecessor, at times, coming off as more of a desktop Scooby Doo episode than a full-on horror movie. And for a solid 45-minutes or so, Unfriended: Dark Web pulls this off to a relatively satisfying degree. That alien showing up at a kid’s birthday party as seen on a grainy VHS recording made my entire audience lose their sh** on the opening night of Signs, more so than had the creatures been revealed in a more conventional manner. Think Signs, War of the Worlds and Pontypool.Īt their best, these films are as scary, if not scarier, than a conventional horror movie by creating horror in the minutiae. Anyway, beyond the reliance on web technology and the gimmick of only seeing the film’s events through the eyes of a computer monitor, a movie like Dark Web is a mere extension of the slightly more common horror flick where we witness terrible (and possibly world-changing) events through the eyes (and only through the eyes) of a singular person or very small group. No, I haven’t seen Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching yet, but that’s just bad luck in terms of when the screenings have been scheduled. Unfriended: Dark Web is a sequel-in-name-only to a surprisingly good entry in what I guess can be called desktop horror. in April of 2015), it stands to reason that the film may end up becoming BH Tilt’s biggest grosser entirely by default. ![]() ![]() And since Unfriended: Dark Web is part of an established brand (the original Unfriended earned solid reviews and a healthy $64m worldwide courtesy of Universal/Comcast Corp. ![]() That’s no grand sum, but it was more than required to make a tidy profit on Leigh Whannell’s futuristic sci-fi thriller/action movie/80’s throwback. They are actually coming off their biggest hit yet, the buzzy and future cult favorite Upgrade which earned $11.8 million just six weeks ago.
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