Log Off: 5 Underrated Horror Movies About The Internet
It seems like all people talk about today is their relationship with the internet, yet, one of the greatest forums mankind has to discuss the tough questions comes up short on the topic. Something about making horror movies about the internet lands as dated disposable trash more times than not.
The newest technology of the era is always scary, often without needing much creativity from artists to bring out the horror. Internet horror films far too often fall into preachy paranoid misunderstandings of basic human nature that vaguely tie in the scary aspects of online life. It's often comical, but some artists find the soul within the ever-growing system of data to create something special.
5 Underrated Movies That Combine Sci-Fi And Horror
Known in Japan as Kairo, which translated means «circuit», this 2001 film is one of the finest Japanese ghost stories of the era. Released three years after Hideo Nakata defined and popularized the genre with Ringu, Kiyoshi Kurosawa shifted the format in a more contemporary direction. While Sadako Yamamura comes through a CRT television thanks to a haunted VHS tape, the spirits of Pulse make their way into reality through the nascent computer monitor and dial-up modem. The premise sounds weak, barely enough to carry a Goosebumps episode, but Kurosawa created a haunting and crushing piece from the simple suggestion. The horror of Pulse isn't ghosts, it's the chilling possibility that no matter how we live, no matter how connected we are, we are always alone.
Writer Isa Mazzei developed Cam partially from her own experience working as a camgirl, a subject which also informed her 2019 memoir. The horror tale she developed from this part of her life blends an eerie interrogation of identity, a
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