terrible... so disappointed.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Everything about this movie is dumb. As in D-U-M-B.Let me re-spell that. DUMB - just in case you didn't catch it the first time. STOOPID works too.Right off the bat the movie lets us know it wants to be dumb. They couldn't think of anything better, more rational or logical than have the main character get a whole bunch of money from some moronic fictional company to do something NOBODY would hire anyone to do, especially not a useless L.A. bimbo: chat with a bunch of people online. That would be like spending money for a study to find out why people go to McDonald's and what they do there: they bloody eat. "Could you pay me tons to watch baseball games and the NBA?" That sort of thing. "Hey, I found this company that's willing to pay me make a study of what alcohol does to people!" Yes, companies can hardly wait to throw away money on useless things! But that's the least of this turkey's problems.I hoped this was a supernatural, nifty thriller a-la "Unfriended" from which it borrows the basic set-up. But it turns out to be just another anti-intelligent modern serial-killa-thrilla with omnipotent sadists who seem to have more super-powers and abilities than all of Marvel's stupidly clad clowns combined. If only the producers of this dross had hired that writer of said film to help out with this lame script which was obviously written by zombies who treat their viewers like, well, zombies. You didn't feel like a zombie watching this? Well, I did.The cretinized conspiracy offered here in the usual cretinous manner is a very absurd, undoable, extremely far-fetched and intelligence-insulting joke, almost like a prank being played on the viewer. In "Hostel" the conspiracy had a realistic logic to it: there are sadistic people out there and they'd pay lots of money to be able to torture people at their own time, free of any legal hassles, and without having to hunt down their own victims: the murders are perpetrated in a far-off place - and certainly not against cops and even detectives like here! (I was half-expecting a celebrity or a country's president to be kidnapped and shot for fun.) In "Hostel" things are done hush-hush, discreetly, unlike in this silly turkey, which is why that movie is chilling, because it is grounded in reality, because it seems like it CAN happen. This bomb however is grounded in a crapcake garden (where t**ds grow out of the grass along with the poop-stained script) which is why none of it is effective. One of the things that make this movie DUMB beyond words is that this kind of conspiracy would require dozens of people involved, in which case it couldn't remain secret for longer than 10 seconds: yes, the FBI would find out about it pretty quickly. And no, they wouldn't all end up in the "den" as prisoners because in the real world (that world that has nothing to do with this malarkey) these sadistic losers wouldn't stand a chance of running such a site longer than 5 minutes. Because no vast conspiracy can remain secret for very long: that's just human nature. The more people are involved in something large yet clandestine, let alone extremely illegal, the more chances rise exponentially that someone either screws up or starts talking. This goes especially for a conspiracy that involves mentally unstable sociopaths - rather than scientists and bureaucrats or what have you.I mean, come on, people, ISIS only wish they had this kind of organizational skills! ISIS are nowhere nearly as organized and master-mind-brilliant as this absurd outfit and yet they have the western world by the caj-ones. So what kind of cosmic power do these knuckleheads have that they can organize a venture of this magnitude - simply to run an internet site! That's their motive for all this? You gotta be kidding me. And people actually get into this...That's their motive? To run a sadistic site - which you ANYWAY can fake these days with CGI and clever editing, especially given the kind of enormous budget this ridiculous organization seems to work with. (Again, ISIS is jealous.) Why risk killing all these people for a quick buck (the revenue stemming from presumably 1000s of site users - at least one of which will report the site to the cops) when all of those can be easily faked - as this movie, for example, shows (badly though), and as all the other thrillers show. Some people are so gullible they will believe "Star Wars" is real, let alone a fake snuff film.In other words, the people who run this organization are so THICK that they would jeopardize everything by actually attacking and killing cops and detectives? Even after they kill or abduct one person from someone's circle of friends - which means the cops start an investigation - rather than WITHDRAW and decide to harass someone else they actually go out and kill the cops too! (And they kill them so easily. As if cops and detectives go alone when entering premises where extreme danger might be lurking. This writer has seen way too many Dirty Harry flicks.) This is so asinine that even the tiniest thriller-fan amoeba should feel its intelligence is being insulted. The conspiracy goes so deep that one of the killers just waltzes inside the pregnant woman's house and harasses her a short while after her house is swarmed by the police. (The usual nonsense: a conspiracy that MUST go all the way to the White House, probably. Is Obama in on this too?) Speaking of which, WHY did they not kill that woman and the unborn child? Are they implying that this organization has MORALS, boundaries they won't cross? Because certainly the reason couldn't have been the approaching police sirens, because a slice of the knife lasts just a second. The movie contradicts itself in the dumbest way possible.The main character said she hates cats (an unforgivable sin) so I was hoping half-way through the film that cat-lovers were the ones torturing her. Even THAT would make a lot more sense and would certainly be at least original rather than this "Hostel" rip-off premise which sponges off all the dumb all-powerful thrilla-killa cliches that'd been used tons of times, especially in recent years during which the thriller genre had sunken to new lows. The movie does manage to top its own conspiracy nonsense by allowing the puny, skinny, tiny 50-kilo female protagonist to kill two of these clowns and to badly hurt at least two more. That in itself is a contradiction, because if they're as powerful and cunning as they'd been shown previously - even killing cops and detectives with total ease - how the hell do they get impaled, stabbed and killed by one of their harmless victims?I hope films can't get any dumber than this. But every time I said that before, someone came up with an even more moronic killa-thrilla. Despite this seeming like an impossible mission, I do not doubt that there are even dumber new thrillers out there. The future looks bright for fans of garbage.

The movie starts out with some promise and actually has a plot. But eventually it becomes hard to follow the action with the camera bouncing all around. I fell asleep twice and became frustrated as I was having trouble determining who was who, and what exactly was going on. The idea that with all that was happening to her, the lead character would elect to leave her video camera on all night seems a bit far fetched. Had they managed to stick to the plot and do more character development versus sticking with the shaky camera, it would have been better.

Directed by Zachary Donohue and starring Melanie Papalia as lead, The Den, is interesting and definitely worth a watch!Filmed entirely like you are sitting at a desk and watching somebody else's computer, The Den, follows Elizabeth (Papalia) as she works off of a grant she generously received for her research on a social media site to monitor the habits of its webcam users. After dealing with a number of horny teen, sleazeballs, kinky old folk, cat lovers, Elizabeth comes across someone using just an image and no webcam more than once on the site. She soon finds out the person behind the image are about to change her world forever.It keeps you gripped and highlights the dangers of social media. It's a f*cked up world out there! It's definitely worth a watch and deserves a lot more credit.

This film is very reminiscent of Unfriended, another horror film entirely shown from the view of a computer screen. This one mixes in regular cinematic footage with views from different cameras (cell phone, laptop, surveillance cams, etc.) to tell the story of a woman named Elizabeth who receives a large grant to study online webcam behavior.Yeah, I know...how can I be down? LOLAt any rate, Elizabeth logs on to a specific feed that shows a woman being brutally murdered. Things go downhill for her and her friends fairly quickly from there...All things considered, I found this film to be rather good! As with virtually all found footage horror films, people continue filming long past the point where that should stop, and as in virtually all horror movies in general, the main character doesn't make very smart decisions...also, there's a scene that seems to portray what has to be one of the least secure crime scenes ever...One scene in particular towards the end seems like a great opportunity for Elizabeth to enact revenge but she doesn't take it. A bit later on, it's sort of revealed that her doing what I thought she should with a hammer RE: revenge wouldn't have made a difference anyway, which was kind of a nice surprise.Speaking of surprises, the ending...The movie takes us out of the found footage realm for this part of the film. In fact, it's the only part of the film that isn't from a cam.And it's quite the doozy! It serves to reinforce the notion that you never know what sick fetishes folks indulge in behind the relative safety and anonymity of the internet. Very disturbing ending!A really nice piece overall if you can forgive a few really stupid decisions made on the part of the main character and don't suffer too badly from motion sickness.