Internet horror

Internet horror is a film genre in which the horror aspect of the film is heavily tied to the internet.Unfriended and Horror's Long Tradition of Fearing New Tech - Jordan Crucchiola - 17 April 2015 - Wired - Retrieved 28 March 2021
==Examples==
Year	Title 	Plot	Notes
2001	Pulse 	
* Residents of Tokyo uncover mysterious deaths and disappearances and realise that the spirits of the deceased are trying to return to the world of the living through the internet.Kairo - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features Internet ghosts who make dialup sounds.
2002	.com for Murder 	
* Sondra Brummel (Nastassja Kinski) is stalked by a master hacker..com for Murder - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2002	Feardotcom 	
* NYPD detectives Mike Reilly (Stephen Dorff) and Sykes (Jeffrey Combs) along with Department of Health inspector Terry Huston (Natascha McElhone) try to solve a mystery involving deaths tied to a website, a ghost, and a serial killer.Feardotcom - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features a red room and a solitary internet ghost.
2005	Hard Candy 	
* Hayley Stark (Elliot Page) tries to prove her date is a pedophile.Hard Candy - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2005	Hellraiser: Hellworld 	
* Gamers who successfully beat a popular MMORPG are invited to a rave, unaware that the game is tied to Pinhead and the Cenobites.Hellraiser: Hellworld - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2005	Dot.Kill 	
* Detective Charlie Daines (Armand Assante) attempts to track down a serial killer that broadcasts his killings live over the internet.Dot.Kill - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2006	Pulse 	
* A hacker accidentally unleashes ghosts through a wireless signal.Pulse - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features internet ghosts.
2008	Untraceable 	
* FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is tasked with tracking down a live streaming serial killer.Untraceable - IMDB - Retrieved 12 April 2021	
2008	Murder.com 	
* Miami lawyer Stacy (Alexandra Paul) discovers her sister's murder was tied to a website devoted to kinky sex.Murder.com - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2008	Pulse 2: Afterlife 	
* Stephen (Jamie Bamber) tries to save his daughter Justine from the apocalypse of ghosts.Pulse 2 - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features internet ghosts.
2008	Pulse 3 	
* Humankind has regressed to a pre-technological age in fear of the ghosts and electricity. Justine (Brittany Renee Finamore) decides to return to the city in search of the truth.Pulse 3 - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features internet ghosts and an omnipotent hacker.
2009	Murder Collection V.1 	
* A collector of snuff films and death footage reemerges after his disappearance in 1994 to share more disturbing footage while waxing philosophical about them.Murder Collection V.1 - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2010	Death Tube: Broadcast Murder Show 	
* A young man becomes addicted to watching murders broadcast on Death Tube, before he himself becomes a participant.Death Tube: Broadcast Murder Show - IMDB - Retrieved 12 April 2021	
* Features red rooms.
2010	Death Tube 2: Broadcast Murder Show	
* The Death Tube site is brought back online.Death Tube 2: Broadcast Murder Show - IMDB - Retrieved 12 April 2021	
* Features red rooms.
2010	Chain Letter 	
*Students of Brickman High School try to survive a lethal killer connected to the deletion of chain letters, while Detective Jim Crenshaw (Keith David) tries to uncover the truth.Chain Letter - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
*Keith David would later portray another police detective in the 2012 film "Smiley".Keith David - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021
*Features omnipotent hackers.
2012	Smiley 	
*College students Ashley (Caitlin Gerard) and Proxy (Melanie Papalia) try to survive attacks from the HideAndGoChat killer and internet urban legend Smiley.Smiley - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features omnipotent hackers and a likely internet ghost.
2013	The Den 	
* Elizabeth Benton (Melanie Papalia) witnesses a murder in an online chatroom and is stalked.The Den - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2014	Unfriended 	
* A group of friends in a Skype call are stalked by a ghost from the past.Unfriended - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features an internet ghost and dropping Facebook friend levels, and takes place almost entirely through a computer screen.
2014	Open Windows 	
* A fan (Elijah Wood) is given the opportunity to spy on his favourite actress by an elite and sadistic hacker.Open Windows - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features a nigh-omnipotent hacker, and largely takes place through a computer screen.Elijah Wood's New Movie Is a Prophetic Thriller About Celebrity Hacking - Angela Watercutter - 2 October 2014 - Wired - Retrieved 28 March 2021
2015	#Horror 	
* Teenage girls are subjected to a night of horror and a shooting spree after following along with a social media game.#Horror - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Ranked the eighth-eeriest Internet-based horror film.10 Eeriest Internet-Centric Horror Movies - Anna Swanson - 10 October 2020 - Film School Rejects - Retrieved 28 March 2021
2016	Friend Request 	
* A popular college student (Alycia Debnam-Carey) with many Facebook friends finds herself losing friends online and in real life after angering a vengeful, murderous, and demonic fellow student (Liesl Ahlers).Friend Request - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features dropping Facebook friend levels.
2017	Tragedy Girls 	
* Death-obsessed teenage girls cause chaos in their home town to drive up interest in their online show.Tragedy Girls - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2018	Unfriended: Dark Web 	
* A group of friends in a Skype call are tormented by a mysterious band of hackers after Matias (Colin Woodell) takes a laptop from an internet café that wasn't his.Unfriended: Dark Web - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features omnipotent hackers and takes place almost entirely through computer screens.
2018	Slender Man 	
* Teenagers of Winsford, Massachusetts are stalked and murdered by a paranormal entity (Javier Botet) after performing an internet ritual to unleash it.Slender Man - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Slender Man is explicitly compared to a computer virus.
2018	Searching 	
* Father David Kim (John Cho) searches through his missing daughter's laptop searching for clues.Searching - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Takes place largely through a computer screen.
2018	Assassination Nation 	
* A massive data hack and breach of the residents of Salem leads to total anarchy, and four teenage girls must fight to survive.Assassination Nation - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2018	Cam 	
* Camgirl Alice (Madeline Brewer) discovers a doppelganger has taken over her cam show.Cam - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2019	The Cleansing Hour 	
* A band of hoaxers that broadcast fake exorcisms accidentally unleashes a demon while live.The Cleansing Hour - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2019	Countdown 	
* Nurse Quinn Harris (Elizabeth Lail) downloads an app that predicts when the user is going to die.Countdown - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021Countdown - Official Website - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
* Features a killer app.
* A real-life app was released to tie in with the movie.Countdown App - Ryan Boyling - 25 September 2019 - App Store - Retrieved 28 March 2021
2020	Unfriended: Proxy 	
* A short fan film in the same vein as the two official Unfriended films.Unfriended: Proxy - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2021	Shook 	
* Social media star Mia (Daisye Tutor) is stalked as part of an online terror campaign.Shook - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
2021	Paranormal Prison 	
* Paranormal investigation YouTubers need to get a viral hit to save their channel, and get more than they bargained for.Paranormal Prison - IMDB - Retrieved 28 March 2021	
==References==
Category:Real genres
Category:Real film genres