hyped garbage

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I have to say this movie really threw me, but with so many children going missing every year, this makes a very strong point, if not overly exaggerated. But who really knows by how much? When you see the kinds of murderers that are out there, this may not be too far from what could happen. Look at Gacy, Bundy, Pichushkin, Jack the Ripper, stalkers in general, and this movie may not be that far fetched. I say well done, I hope this movie will wake up younger people to be much more careful. All the people who down voted this probably are very selfish people who really dont care about this kind of thing happening. Good Job Michael!

Michael Boi tried to excuse this inane attempt at a movie by saying it was supposed to caution people about internet predators. This is just exploitation. A total waste of time. Who the hell calls internet video chat "webbing"?! Did the director really believe that's how teenagers talk? And supposedly he took the blowjob description "word-for-word" from interviewing a 13-year-old girl! I think the only thing he did remotely correct was to show me how to dispose of this DVD. Seal it in a plastic barrel with decayed human remains and then bury it in a shallow grave late at night. So glad they recorded every FaceTime message and their webcams were constantly recording whenever they used their computer. The "torture porn" picture that was "too disturbing" for a fetish site's webmaster could have easily been my last appointment at the orthodontist.

This may just be the worst movie I have ever seen. Extremely unrealistic depiction of the girls' lives. If Amy is supposed to be a shy 14 year old girl with obviously protective parents, how did they allow her to go to that party with all the junkies at the first place? Also, why wouldn't she tell someone that Megan was doing heroin? She seemed like a better friend than that. Another thing that bugged me was Lexie in Amy's video diary. She blames Amy for Megan's disappearance without a reason, and Amy doesn't seem to try and defend herself. Why on earth would they blame Amy anyway? This makes no sense. Even if it was well directed, it also lacks a decent plot. We have no understanding of the killer's motive, nor do we even watch enough gore for this to be considered at least gory. It was just a massive disappointment and a complete waste of time.

I think people are being a bit overreactionary and unfair with the one star ratings. Yeah, this was low budget and the script could have been better. I thought the dialogue was a little annoying and vapid but honestly, I remember a lot of my teenager talks being on the shallow side, so maybe it's an accurate portrayal. But even though it looked a bit amateur, overall I thought it did a fair-to-good job for what it set out to do while still being entertaining. The director was up front in saying he aimed to make this a warning about online predators. Given the subject matter, this could easily have been exploitative + gratuitous. I think it refrained from doing that, so kudos. I really don't agree with those who have said the "warning" theme to the movie is just an excuse to show the raping of a fourteen year old. That scene focuses only on Amy's face the entire time, and the only viewer who would see that as exciting or as anything other than heartbreaking and angering is a sociopath already, and there are many other, sicker films that they would probably "enjoy" (blech) instead of this one. That said, the movie still banks highly on suspense and cultural morbid curiosity about predators, kidnapping, sexual assault and other violence. I don't like torture porn movies, but this one is based on true accounts,(actual pictures and footage were part of the research) and I thought it important to really get a glimpse into what those victims went through. While I thought the characters a bit shallow, (and FTR I think a lot of teenagers IRL are kind of shallow) there was decent enough backstory and character development to make me care about them. As has been said by many already, the last twenty minutes are really sad and hard to watch, but it was pretty ingenious-- for instance, showing the complete last moments of Amy's life instead of abbreviating it or cutting to different scenes. Some people have complained about how tedious it was, but this wasn't meant to be an action movie. It showed what an eternal agony Amy felt. And the very last scene is just totally heartbreaking.Deal with the cringe worthy moments. This movie is worth watching.