The Den
While studying the habits of web cam chat users from the apparent safety of her own home, a young woman's life begins to spiral out of control after witnessing a grisly murder online.
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"Released in 2013, when found footage films were still in vogue and cyber thrillers were in their infancy - 3 years before, for example Friend Request (2016) - this film has all the trappings of the genre: incessant filming, ambiguous origin of POV, apparent real-time editing, etc. The movie starts out innocuously as do movies of this type, yet remains in this tedium for perhaps the entire first third of the movie before you get some hint where things are going. Then when our female lead is hacked, in all likelihood from a Den user, inexplicably she takes little measure to clear the root of t..."
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Melanie Papalia said she researched her role by going into actual chat sites, including ChatRoulette, which she said creeped her out. She said most of the people were very weird and creepy, and almost all of the guys were naked. She said, "But it wasn't funny, it was gross. The look on these guys' faces while they were just sitting there touching themselves was so disturbing that it just stayed with me. I remembered it while filming too, but it's not a site that I ever want to go on again. I didn't think I would feel as vulnerable as I did, but it was the way they looked at me through my screen."
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While studying the habits of web cam chat users from the apparent safety of her own home, a young woman's life begins to spiral out of control after witnessing a grisly murder online.