This movie came highly recommended by the folks at Netflix and for those of you who'd like to see the movie, it's on there now. This movie surrounds a computer social media program called "The Den" which is similar to Skype and Chat Roulette. A girl is paid by her college to do a documentary on the program by recording random chats she has. During her project, she witnesses a murder.
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Upon seeing the murder, a hacker breaks into her computer and starts to warp the footage she sees from other people, answers chats for her, and pretends to be her friends to fool her. Over the next week she starts to see people in her life disappearing and the police are convinced that it's just a hoax.
The hackers kidnap her and it is revealed that they have a whole ring where they hack, kidnap, and murder for a website that they use to find new victims. The movie kind of reminded me of Feardotcom in a way. I really enjoyed the movie (not just because it was a first person view movie) and it was pretty good. Go take a watch. The movie really takes a different perspective on social media and how easily technology can be used against us. It seems with this kind of technology that it is becoming easier and easier for things like this to happen. I gave this one a four.
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