Nerve (2016)

Nerve (2016)
Rating: ★★
Nov 20, 2016Internet Site That Offers Deadly Challenges
This is like an online version of 13 Sins about an internet site that pushes people to take increasingly more outrageous and eventually deadly dares. One of the new thrillers centred around social media that seeks to adopt its visual look, this is slickly polished and aimed direct to the teenage demographic

Viral (2016)

Viral (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 26, 2016Plague Outbreak/Zombie Parasites
Effort from the near-ubiquitous Blumhouse that is constantly confounding expectations – a plague outbreak drama but not quite, a zombie film but not quite. In the end, not a great or groundbreaking film but certainly a modest one that takes things in some interesting and original directions

Bird Box (2018)

Bird Box (2018)
Rating: ★★½
Feb 9, 2019Mysterious Catastrophe After Which People Are Forced to Not Look Outside
Very similar to A Quiet Place from several months earlier where here people cannot look outdoors and must remain blindfolded. Hindered by a frustrating lack of any explanations as to what is happening

Captive State (2019)

Captive State (2019)
Rating: ★★
Jun 9, 2019The Resistance Against an Alien Invasion
A highly politicised films that takes place several years after an alien invasion and concerns the resistance against them. However, the aliens feature very little and the film resembles more of a 'hood drama