{"id":14559,"date":"2021-10-27T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2021-10-27T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:43:00","slug":"unfriended-2-dark-web-2018-stephen-susco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14559","title":{"rendered":"Unfriended 2: Dark Web (2018, Stephen Susco)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not supposed to be funny, it&#8217;s actually a horror transmedia.&#8221;  No supernatural activity here, it&#8217;s something scarier &#8211; darknet internet trolls murdering teens for the lulz.  There&#8217;s bitcoin, SWATing, pizzagate conspiracies.  I dunno about the masked conspirators breaking into houses and doing literal murders, that doesn&#8217;t seem the same style as the SWATing, but I had fun.  Watched on my laptop &#8211; I kept seeing the cursor and touching my trackpad to see if it was mine.  Good sound mix, not too realistic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/unfriended202.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Matias maybe-steals a new laptop and hangs out with his crew on game night.  Nobody dies for an entire hour, then they pretty much all die.  The laptop was bait, &#8220;we did everything they wanted us to do.&#8221;  The blu-ray presents four different endings, some real indecision here, including a cliffhanger and one where Matias gets <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13906\">Vanishing<\/a>&#8216;d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/unfriended203.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Susco started out writing <em>Grudge<\/em> and <em>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> remakes.  Lead dude Colin Woodell was in <em>Searching<\/em>, weirdly specializing in desktop movies.  Somehow didn&#8217;t recognize Betty Gabriel (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11863\">Get Out<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not supposed to be funny, it&#8217;s actually a horror transmedia.&#8221; No supernatural activity here, it&#8217;s something scarier &#8211; darknet internet trolls murdering teens for the lulz. There&#8217;s bitcoin, SWATing, pizzagate conspiracies. I dunno about the masked conspirators breaking into houses and doing literal murders, that doesn&#8217;t seem the same style as the SWATing, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1966,54,608,181,2941],"class_list":["post-14559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-hacker","tag-horror","tag-internet","tag-sequel","tag-stephen-susco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14593,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions\/14593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}