Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) poster
2018 · horror

Unfriended: Dark Web

Directed by Stephen Susco1h 32m2018
ElsewhereIMDb6.042kRT60%Metacritic53
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.

Our read · Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a ruthless desktop horror ride with nowhere safe to look.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencejump scareschild peril

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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