Maybe the worst movie ever! Terrible ending and nothing at all is explained, total waste of time. Movie shot like "found footage" to make it even worse

Hacked or The Den ( what is it with these stupid alternative titles? ) is another film based around the dangers of social media. It starts very similar to Unfriended and becomes more SAW like as it progresses. The overwhelming impression I got from the film was just how banal and pointless most of social media is. Just sad people desperate for a bit of attention. Although not groundbreaking it is fairly creepy and at times disturbing and keep my attention throughout. It didn't quite go where i thought it would and unlike many horrors I thought the ending was very good. This is a very good effort for a low budget film and very effective in what it is trying to convey. Worth watching.

OK, so here is the thing. Back in the 90's (I think the website is dead thank god), there was a website known as the Human Experimentation website. As far as I remember from hearing from it on YouTube, it mainly consisted of homeless people who would not be missed(of course to prevent people from searching for them). This website, like how it is/was known, would experiment on people's bodies in screwed up ways, but! This movie is a lot like the infamous 'red rooms' on the deep web. Though there is a relationship between the two, red rooms seem to be what human experimentation was, but more frequent/abundant. The reason this movie got to me so much was because of how real it 'can' be if you are not careful and 'do not pay attention' to what you see, do, and hear on the internet.Beware when talking to strangers, it is best they do not see your face and/or home layout whatsoever, just to be safe.*Note*Thankfully, red rooms seem to be more of a myth due to the deep web not being able to stream worth much at all, but the rumors of it do exist and we all know how jacked up the world can be. Be safe out there everyone. Though this was just only a movie, it does portray something that is very, very real.

I'm not biased to found-footage horror films. Even some of the more out-there ones, like 'Creep' I have enjoyed and appreciated, and I was hoping for a similar film in 'The Den'. While it starts off with an interesting premise, it quickly becomes too unrealistic, and in the end, I turned it off 20 minutes before what I'm sure was a terrible conclusion.The plot centers around a young grad student who's gotten a grant to study something along the lines of online communication through a web site called 'The Den', where you can video chat with anyone, anywhere in the world. Things turn nasty for her though, when she witnesses a murder during one of these subsequent chats, and soon her loved ones are picked off one by one as she is hunted by this elusive killer.Despite the low budget, and the fact that the film takes place entirely in a 'Face-Time' like format, I thought the first 1/3 of 'The Den' was pretty creepy, and gave good credence to what I imagine dark internet activity to look like. But when the killer begins to take down her family members and hunt her, it becomes unrealistic, and therefor boring. A more interesting plot IMO would have been centered around a police investigation after the aforementioned murder witnessed by the grad. student. Because these things do happen online, but rarely do these killers become so reckless that they then begin to hunt down others on the same chat. IDK, perhaps I'm cynical and have read too much true-crime books, but I just don't like run- of-the-mill slasher movies, which is what 'The Den' is, only it's packaged in a way to feed on the technological paranoia of millennials. Like I mentioned before, I did not watch The Den through till the end. It started to seem like too much of a waste of time, so perhaps I missed out on something that would have completely redeemed the film, but I'm betting that I didn't.