After a friend mysteriously disappears, a writer and his girlfriend start to investigate the connection between the incidents and a strange computer virus created in a lab, and after shutting down the virus they go out on the run as the rest of society begins falling with the release of the virus.
This was a rather weird Full Moon genre effort. It's mainly based on the idea to release a film about cyber-technology when they never used modern ideas before. It is a breath of fresh air to see them try this for their films to use a more modern theme is really exciting. What the film does really well is it makes technology seem like a dangerous concept in a modern world by having every possible way that a technological device could be dangerous imagined. This brings out the fear that many have about our cell phones or whatever devices we may have at our disposal. This was a cleverly designed plot idea and was cleverly realized on-screen to integrate the whole S&M tortures of the victims at the beginning which was very believable in how they got everything tied together. That allows this one to feature a solid series of attacks by the released creature to capture and disrupt victims. With the opening attack featuring the computer wires acting as tendrils to ensnare and capture the unaware victim, it sets a solid precedent for how this works as the other features here with the technological terror it creates have some fun to it. The final form of the virus was also a nice way of wrapping up things, and it did have a slightly realistic way of ending with the series of techno-based creature attacks and carnage that take place. It was something new and it came off as a new way of hooking things together which makes for the film's main positives. There are some big factors that drag this one down. The main issue here is that beginning of the film is almost mind-numbingly dull that takes boredom to almost new heights. Focusing on an endless stream of relationship building between the couple or a slew of techno-jargon that sets the stage for nothing in particular interest to happen. As per normal in Full Moon films, there are almost no jumps or scares which make the boredom even more apparent. This is all enhanced with the obvious low-budget on display that comes with everything from the glossy digital glare over the proceedings to the effects-work and the overall cheap, confined nature of everything present here. Combined, this all really drags the film down.
Rated R: Graphic Language, S&M References and Images, Nudity, and Violence.
This was a rather weird Full Moon genre effort. It's mainly based on the idea to release a film about cyber-technology when they never used modern ideas before. It is a breath of fresh air to see them try this for their films to use a more modern theme is really exciting. What the film does really well is it makes technology seem like a dangerous concept in a modern world by having every possible way that a technological device could be dangerous imagined. This brings out the fear that many have about our cell phones or whatever devices we may have at our disposal. This was a cleverly designed plot idea and was cleverly realized on-screen to integrate the whole S&M tortures of the victims at the beginning which was very believable in how they got everything tied together. That allows this one to feature a solid series of attacks by the released creature to capture and disrupt victims. With the opening attack featuring the computer wires acting as tendrils to ensnare and capture the unaware victim, it sets a solid precedent for how this works as the other features here with the technological terror it creates have some fun to it. The final form of the virus was also a nice way of wrapping up things, and it did have a slightly realistic way of ending with the series of techno-based creature attacks and carnage that take place. It was something new and it came off as a new way of hooking things together which makes for the film's main positives. There are some big factors that drag this one down. The main issue here is that beginning of the film is almost mind-numbingly dull that takes boredom to almost new heights. Focusing on an endless stream of relationship building between the couple or a slew of techno-jargon that sets the stage for nothing in particular interest to happen. As per normal in Full Moon films, there are almost no jumps or scares which make the boredom even more apparent. This is all enhanced with the obvious low-budget on display that comes with everything from the glossy digital glare over the proceedings to the effects-work and the overall cheap, confined nature of everything present here. Combined, this all really drags the film down.
Rated R: Graphic Language, S&M References and Images, Nudity, and Violence.