Nolan is joined by Kat McBride and Emily von Seele — as well as special guest Ari Drew from Bloody Disgusting — to discuss Zachary Donohue’s The Den (2014) and Stephen Susco’s Unfriended: Dark Web (2018). The crew catches up on new discoveries, rewatches, and recent releases before joining a virtual hangout to explore the dark corners of the internet together and see what mysteries they can uncover.
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Based on a true story, Profile is the latest “Screenlife” film to hit the public consciousness. Rather than a traditional approach, “Screenlife” tells an entire story through numerous windows and apps on a computer screen. The concept has previously been seen in Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows, and both Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web; in Profile, Timur Bekmambetov works to stretch the approach to tell a story over the course of several weeks, rather than in real time over the course of a couple of hours. It’s a successful illustration of the concept, seamlessly bridging multiple video chats and calls with a series of messages, video clips, and other media to tell a complex and tense story.
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