The Deep Web: Murdershow

While I had never heard about writer and director Dan Zachary's 2023 horror movie "The Deep Web: Murdershow" prior to stumbling upon it, I needed not persuasion to watch it given my love and fascination with all things horror. And without knowing what I was in for here, The Deep Web: Murdershow had every opportunity to entertain and impress me.

Writer Dan Zachary put together a script and storyline that proved to be entertaining. Sure, he was using some stereotypical horror tropes, and it was a bit predictable perhaps, but the movie proved to be enjoyable and entertaining nonetheless.

I didn't know that Brendan Fletcher was in the movie, so that was a nice surprise. Especially since I was just wondering about whether he had been starring in any movies recently the other day. The acting performances in the movie were good.

There were some pretty visceral scenes in the movie, which I found to be a nice surprise. And the effects looked rather good, which added to the overall enjoyment of the movie. "The Deep Web: Murdershow" actually had enough blood and violence in it to keep a seasoned horror veteran such as myself adequately entertained.

"The Deep Web: Murdershow" proved to be a rather enjoyable horror movie, and I was genuinely entertained throughout the course of the 81 minutes that the movie ran for.

My rating of writer and director Dan Zachary's "The Deep Web: Murdershow" lands on a well-deserved six out of ten stars.

Not even so bad it's good, it's just bad.

Everything is over exaggerated, I have no idea what they were going for. In parts it's like they were trying to be serious, in others it was as if they said screw it, let's make the most hammed up ridiculous film we can make.

Absolutely nothing sticks and everything stinks.

All but one of the actors were atrocious, seriously, only one of them could actually act.

The dialogue is hilariously bad, not a single conversation in the film would happen in real life.

It's a shame because the premise was decent, by the right people it could have been great, alas it was far from it.

Avoid like the plague.

Poor choices made by both the casting crew, directors, writers, and me for sitting through it hoping there would be an unpredictable twist somewhere.

But, no. Poor acting, genre tries to hit suspense, dark comedy, gore and drama but misses all of them in the process. Scenes not particularly well shot. No satisfying conclusion.

The script and flow could have benefitted from an entire overhaul, in all honesty. Many questions left unanswered which don't seem to be a case of 'viewer can surmise their own personal outcome here' type questions.

Only thing that drew me in initially was the title - unfortunately the film totally missed the mark, when there was so much potential there.

There seems to be an effort lately to make these kinds of horror movies a little better again. This is good news because the audience deserves better. Creating creative scenes in low-budget productions can't be easy, and The Deep Web Murdershow dares to try. Is it enough? Of course not. The production, which resembles the horror movies you have watched before, starts very quickly. It slows down after a while, but then the tension increases rapidly. There could have been better acting and better scenes with wild content, but for the genre, it can be watched without getting bored. The ending is more or less predictable and some parts are minus points, but it can be considered a good choice among similar ones.

This movie is a very weird one to review. Its quality throughout its duration ranges from awful to stupid fun. It is shot and lit relatively well, however, it seems that for as much effort they put into the camera and lighting work, a fraction of it was put into the script, plot, and finding competent actors.

The main character is Tubi's attempt to have a relatable millennial protagonist, but my friends and I all ended up hating his, true crime podcaster persona. Also, the movie tries to make him queer-coded with his family shunning him for a reason we are not privy to, however, it is very clear that the writers are insinuating that he is gay. But in the end, they pulled their punches having him and the final girl become a couple. This might've been Tubi stepping in saying they didn't want a queer main character.

Tubi clearly spent more money on this original than they do on most other ones (see "Shark side of the moon") however their understanding of the dark web is just laughably bad. You could watch 5 SomeOrdinayGamers videos and have a better understanding of it than the writers do.

By the way, the girl killer is on a dark website called "readit" in one scene which I thought was stupidly funny.

This is another one of those "internet bad" movies where movie studios will use the boogeyman of the deep web in order to get unsuspecting people to view the movie.

While not as blatantly exploitative as movies like Unfriended: Dark Web and Megan is Missing, a lot of this movie's "horror" relies on people not having a basic understanding of how the deep web works.

Overall, a fun, stupid movie that you shouldn't show to your cinema studies friends, but a decent one to show to your bad movie friends.