Chatroom (2010)
Directed by Hideo Nakata
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
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Unlike some ‘internet’ horror films which find it hard to keep up with changing tech and become awkwardly outdated before they are even released – 2010s Chatroom being the most obvious example – Host feels gloriously fresh.
Yet the problem of dramatising online interaction has often proved insurmountable, leading to such out-of-touch failures as Hideo Nakata’s crushingly analogue 2010 adaptation of Enda Walsh’s creaky play Chatroom .