More specifically, the rapid improvement of video conferencing services like Zoom have made it easier than ever to reliably record film-quality footage at a very low cost. As we spend an ever-increasing portion of our day staring into a computer monitor, it becomes less implausible that the events of a horror film might either involve the internet or actually be captured on-screen. Perhaps it shouldn’t seem surprising that the genre is gaining steam. It wasn’t until Searching (2018) that the format proved viable, sparking a flurry of new attempts-especially given the industry shakeup that coincided with the COVID-19 lockdowns and films like 2020’s Host-to capitalize on the trend. Films like The Den (2013) and Unfriended (2014), though innovative, struggled to make use of their virtual environments, particularly with the constraints that a screen-locked perspective puts on plot development. It’s a category that-though it is gaining popularity in recent years-had a rocky start. If the majority of the characters in the film interact through a phone or the internet, or if much of the plot centers around these, then the film may fall under the “cyber horror” category. Cyber horror isn’t a very well-defined subgenre in horror, but it is recognizable.
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