Réalisation:
Zachary DonohuePhotographie:
Bernard HuntMusique:
Evan GoldmanActeurs·trices:
Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Bill Oberst Jr., Katija Pevec, Ron Bottitta, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Matt Riedy, Alberto Jorrin (plus)Résumés(1)
After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) logs onto a video-chat site known as THE DEN, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the internet. And eventually, Elizabeth finds herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim. (IFC Midnight)
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My feelings towards the found-footage / mockumentary sub-genre could be summarised as “fatigue”. But you can still find excellent exceptions among filmmakers who are able to take on this exhausted format in a relatively creative way, and rookie director Zachary Donohue is one of those exceptions with The Den. Thematically, it deals with the dangers of the internet (in a similar way as, for instance, Megan is Missing). I don’t know if it is really technically possible for an internet attacker to do everything he does to the protagonist, I lack the technical expertise. Nevertheless, what he does to her is nothing nice and the creators successfully manage capture the despair caused by those anonymous attacks. They also stick to the concept of capturing the events through a web camera for at least half of the movie, and it’s amazing how smoothly they are able to tell a comprehensible story with such limitations. Hats off to that. By the end, the notebook’s web camera is replaced by something else… and the ending overall goes to a place that I wasn’t really expecting at the beginning. Thumbs up to that. 7/10, rounding up because it was nice.
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Internet culture of violence! A very classy and unique found footage flick that will get under your skin! The protagonist is very likable, the pace is dynamic, the atmosphere is so adrenaline-packed that it will make your blood pressure jump up and down while watching; there is also decent gore and great cinematography. 80% So far the best horror movie of the year.
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