The dark web, as the name suggests, is a network that is hidden in the depths of the database and is not included in the database of major search engines. If the Internet is an iceberg, then what we can search for and see is only the tip of the iceberg at sea level, and the huge iceberg hidden under the sea level is the dark web, which hides many unknown and cruel secrets.
Some time ago, the popular thriller movie "Unfriend 2: The Dark Web" was adapted from the real-life dark web as a script.
There is a description of the dark web in the American drama "House of Cards": "96% of the Internet data is not accessible through standard search engines, although most of it is useless information, but there is everything that is not known about it, such as child trafficking, Bitcoin money laundering, hallucinogens, marijuana, bounty hacking, and even murder videos, and so on."
And "Unfriend 2: Dark Web" as a horror movie about the Internet, let us feel extremely scared after watching it.
If you haven't watched this movie, let me bring you several movies of the same theme today, so that you can watch it at once.
1. "The Lair" | the United States
It's also a story about the dark web.
Elizabeth Benton, a young woman, entered an underground network to try to chat with netizens around the world in order to complete the research task of human behavior assigned to her by the professor, hoping to investigate their Internet habits and interests.
In the process of video chatting with netizens, Elizabeth saw the evil in the corner of the world. One day, when Elizabeth was chatting with a girl, she witnessed the cruel killing of the other party, and the frightened Elizabeth rushed to the police to inform her boyfriend, but the police and the boyfriend believed that someone's video was deliberately forged.
Until one day, her boyfriend mysteriously disappeared, and her friends around her were also caught in a series of horrific events. It was a massacre sparked by online video chat. The film is innovative, and like "Unfriendly 2", the entire film is almost entirely performed on a computer desktop.
The Internet is a double-edged sword, and at the same time as it brings us convenience, there will also be some darkness that the sun can never shine, and the Internet is like a fertile soil that allows us to grow freely, and at the same time, this fertile soil also breeds the flower of sin.
2. "Megan's Disappearance" | the United States
One of the safe Internet rules - "Don't believe what netizens say, let alone meet with netizens." Because on the other end of the screen you'll never know what the person you're talking to is and what's going on."
Megan and Amy are the best friends in life, one day Megan met a boy named Josh in the internet chat room, and the two had a good chat. However, Megan mysteriously disappears after going to see Josh, and Amy finds the cruel truth in order to find Megan, looking for information on the Internet.
In order to lay a relatively flat foundation in the first half of the film, Megan slowly caused the climax of the whole film after she disappeared, imprisoned, abused, buried alive, tortured...
As a pseudo-documentary-style subject, the realistic style makes people can't help but feel numb, the director does not deliberately render the atmosphere, nor does he give the bad guys a label that the audience can see at a glance, everything in the film makes people look realistic, ordinary, let the danger come without warning, this is the director's cleverness.
The film also tells us a truth, there are sharks on the Internet.
3. "Lost in the Internet" | the United States
Although this film also has thriller shots, although it is also very depressing, but unlike the above two, this is a film about hope. Douban scored as high as 9.0 points, and also won the Sundance Film Festival Award this year.
The story tells the story of the Korean-American David Kim family living in Northern California, shortly after the loss of their wife, the usually well-behaved daughter Margot suddenly disappeared without leaving a single clue, and the police who came to investigate believed that Margot had deliberately run away from home because a suspicious amount of money had been remitted to Margot's bank account before the disappearance, and she had forged a fake ID card.
But David King didn't believe his daughter would do this, so he opened her social network on her daughter's computer and slowly discovered the reason for her disappearance.
In fact, strictly speaking, this is a touching film, because the director's novel performance method has made the film into a suspense thriller. The suspenseful plot is tightly linked, which makes people look shocked, and no one will think that the whole movie is telling a touching story, what is important is that the director makes the whole movie presented through a computer screen, so that the audience can watch the movie from a perspective sitting in front of the computer.
Because the plot of the film is up and down, spoilers will affect the effect of watching this film, so the author should not spoil here.
4. "Unfriend" | the United States
As the first part of the "Unfriend 2: Dark Web" series, this film is actually completely different from each other, and there is no plot and story connection. "Unfriend" is also about what happened under the dark web.
Laura, a high school girl, committed suicide one night, and a year later Laura's classmate Blair flirted with her boyfriend and many friends in an online chat room. At this time, a mysterious user without an avatar joins in, using Laura's identity to talk to them, Blair thinks it is a hacker's prank, but this mysterious user cannot be kicked out and hung up.
As a girl who had cursed Laura suddenly died of an accident, and then the people in the chat room died one by one, slowly, the unknown secrets of Blair and others finally surfaced - Laura died in the online violence of Blair and others.
Different from the second part, the first "Unfriend" added a seemingly "supernatural event", giving people a mysterious sense of terror, the same is through the Network, through the chat room to create suspense. The central idea of the film is actually to satirize the network violence, and slap the keyboard men who participated in the network violence.
In the age of the Internet, the Internet has become ubiquitous to us, but some dangers are also everywhere, such as: online fraud, selling personal privacy and information. It is precisely because the directors have seen such a phenomenon that they have made some movies about the Internet, and there are no ghosts but people can see it in a cold sweat.