It starts slow and has little budget but the actors pull it off and there are some quality scares in here. Really good job all around with the visuals as well. You see so many movies like this that just suck but this one clocks in at 68 mins so just hang in for the first 15 or so and then you're off to the races.
Deadware
2021
Action / Horror
Deadware
2021
Action / Horror
Keywords: found footagevideo gamewebchat
Plot summary
Year 1999. Megan has moved from San Antonio to San Francisco, so she has been talking to her two best friends for a while, but not seeing each other. Jay has acquired a webcam, so they can finally talk and see each other. Amy, the third friend is not in the chat, but sends them a link to an online horror game.
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Unfriended II?
There's nothing wrong with the acting, between the two actors who take up 98% of the films screen time. Its just mostly very slow and consists of a few mins playing a game then a few mins talking.
It's a cheap cam 2 cam film set in 1999, because they couldn't do much with visual effects to make it more modern, so opted for a few photoshop stills and made it out to be the two of them discovering an online game that they soon find out is haunted.
The scariest part of this film is its supposed to be online in 1999 and the game loads instantaneously over their 56k modems and there's absolutely no buffering on their cams, no drop outs, no frozen cams for a few seconds, no pixelated images and no dial-up sounds... actually the dial-up sound could have aided in bringing up PTSD for those of us who suffered through those days. But I found it too hard to get past all that to suspend enough belief and just go with it.
Had this been made in 1999, it might be a decent flick to put some fear into someone, but instead it's just another cheap movie with cheap jump scares that should have been cut down to a 30 Min episode or even just an even quicker online short film.
I'd only recommend it to you if you're already interested, otherwise you'll never kick yourself for never seeing it. It's not a pop corn flick, it has zero humor, no memorable scenes or quotes, there's nothing noteworthy about anything here. It's payable as a one of viewing that you can watch all the way through not being completely bored to death, but it's basically just the average low budget flick that tries to have a clever little twist in the end that's not all that clever at all... tho if you happened to have seen a 2022 film called "Choose or Die" and actually liked it, you might get the same kick out of this one that is slightly simmilar in plot.
Better Than What I Expected
I was wanting something a little bit different to watch and found this. At first I thought, 'oh this is a real cheapie', but I stuck with it and I am actually glad that I did.
Deadware may seem a little slow at first, but stay with it, it's a genuinely creepy movie. The acting is good, the dialogue is natural and realistic. The two actors are fine although you can see that their acting skills can use a little honing at times. Still, they do a pretty competent job. The suspense builds nicely and there is plenty of atmosphere that builds tension.
Two friends hook up over the net, (this is set in the early nineties,) and end up playing a game. But the game is more than a game.
This is worth the watch, especially for some of the really cool scares and overall creepiness.