While a group of friends are having themselves an online reunion and booze-infused watch party, one of their number opens an email link to a game demo because he is an idiot and has obviously been scammed multiple time. Who the fuck opens an unsolicited email link nowadays? Especially from an unrecognized source? I don’t care of you’re in the field of gaming, that’s even less of an excuse… come on! Fuckin Gary. Anyways, said demo is cursed and now a supernatural presence is tearing its way through this group of dopes thanks to one moron with the brain of an eighty-year-old widow whose grandchildren never visit. Thankfully, the quartet of actors are affable and have solid chemistry so it’s easy to not give up on them immediately but, of course, they begin to bicker when the shit hits the fan. As soon as Gary starts playing the game whilst waiting for his friends to jump back on, shit gets crazy and glitchy. Hell is unleashed, possession causes violence and everyone is pretty much screwed. Newly religious Angharad catches on quick that evil is in the works but it may do nothing to help the situation. POV horror taken from the view of the ill-fated web chat or whatever shit Gary is getting into on his screen which includes playing the side-scrolling game he’s foolishly downloaded because lives depend on it. It’s like Evil Dead meets Host and not as good as either but still worthy of a watch because both of those movies are high benchmarks. You could also throw a splash of Stay Alive in there but that’s not really a high benchmark and I’d say this one is at least on the same level as that admittedly under appreciated but still not great flick. A climactic battle hilariously comes off like being forced to watch your older sibling play a video game they won’t let you play.
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