Harcelée

One of the reasons I explore the out of the way places when it comes to film. Low budget and shot mostly on webcams, this movie evokes a sense of dread and horror without showing a drop of blood. The moral, if there is one, says that danger in the 21st century no longer needs mass or form.

Emma is surrounded by the technology that slowly becomes a menace to her as a stalker takes over her devices and the devices of others. A nameless presence oozes through the movie with no clear indication of who or why - it's just nameless malice floating through the same ether as the wireless signals that connect her. As such, it's filmed entirely on hand-held, cell phone and webcam. While this gets annoying at times, the filmmakers break up with some nice editing moves. The performances are solid and engaging. The stark, brutal ending horrified me with its unspoken implications.

(BTW - to the person who trashed this, insisting that the rating was inflated, I didn't even know this film existed. If you didn't like it (and I'm betting the lack of nudity and gore played a part in that) that's fine. But don't be a dick.)

Potentially a good film spoiled by having no end.

I have seen thousands of films the last 35 years, but it seems that today film makers are less and less bothered about a good ending. The acting was OK in it, actually deserves a 7, the location looked OK, another 7, The story line and subject was fine, 7 again, but I guess the film maker had no money left over for a normal ending. And that makes it worth a 1. You wouldn't by a car without engine, or a house without a roof, would you? Even an empty bread bag would not pass a till.

I couldn't have cared if she would survived, got killed, turned into a privacy activist or what ever, but pls pls pls, give films an ending.

As from 2010, the difference in a good film or a bad film seems to focus on the end of the story. Imagine: The Green Mile without the end scene between two older people, The sixth sense without explaining at the end that the guy actually was dead all the film long, The Hunger Games missing part 4? That's what the "ratter" is about. Quick and cheap productions without an end... Thanks.

Aside from the opening caption, I'd say this feels drawn out. There's another Indie film that uses a similar concept called 'Alone With Her' (2006). Overall, I think that one does a better job delivering the same sort of cautionary tale.

I honestly don't know if I should recommend this movie. On the one hand, it is interesting precisely from the "I'm following you through devices" side, it keeps you in suspense. The plot develops interestingly, I would like to find out who it is, why he does it, even if he was just interested in watching over random girls, etc. But nuh, film just ended it

Well, the ending was very disappointing, simply because they didn't explain anything, and the end was very smeared and ugly. There are many films about stalking on the Internet, many of them are beautifully designed, have their own beginning and end. And in this film, the stalker just appears out of nowhere, does unreasonable actions, and disappears into nowhere.

If you like the genre, it's better to spend time on "Megan is missing", "Unfriended" or something of that format.

I do not give a bad rating because most of the film was interestingly played, and the presence effect made itself felt, but I will not be able to give such a film a high rating.

Not great but watchable at least.

This is a found-footage movie, web-cam and phone-cam (stalker) style.

Similar to 'Alone With Her (2006)' with Colin Hanks (except sole focus on the victim) which is one of my favorite found footage movies, so no it's not even close to being as good but I've seen a lot worse.

What makes and breaks a found footage movie is usually depending on if the leads are annoying or not (which is pretty common) since most of what we see is their faces through-out the running-time.

Luckily Emma played by Ashley Benson is not very annoying and comes across as fairly likable which helps the movie substantially, had she been annoying this would not had held up, it helps that she's easy on the eyes as well.

There's not all that much to say about the movie, we get to see through hacked web-cam on phone-cam so most of it is everyday stuff often from weird (but natural considering the source) angles.

I can understand that some people would find it boring but I didn't, even though I wasn't amazed by it either it was a passable time-waster.