A gory cautionary tale.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Who says science and religion are incompatible? There's something undeniably creepy about the thought that your smartphone can possess you. While the message is effective and scary, though, the characters and the writing fall short of mesmerizing. Oh, and all this happens on Halloween, “the fall climax…a time of reaping harvest, of accounting.” Humankind is held responsible for its irresponsibility, paying the price for all the convenience we take for granted, for our obsession with the digital world. Percy takes the darkest conspiracy theories you can imagine and makes them the stuff of nightmares. Percy’s vision rather obviously offers commentary on our contemporary lifestyle: “People fuss so much about what they eat.…But they don’t worry as much about what they consume online.” Once the demon virus is released from the Dark Net, anyone accessing our everyday staples-Netflix, Tinder, Google-becomes a homicidal maniac. And the only people who can stop it are a 12-year-old blind girl, two demon hunters “on the spectrum” (meaning they have supernatural tendencies of their own), and an intrepid reporter.
While the demons in question begin by possessing the bodies of humans in order to physically manipulate and control technology, their ultimate quest is nothing less than complete domination of the human race, to be achieved through torture and mass murder. This is where people come to satisfy their most destructive and perverted desires, and, according to Percy, it’s naturally where demons would go when working to possess people in the 21st century. Winter and Schiller previously worked together on Downloaded which centred on the rise and fall of Napster.In Percy’s ( Thrill Me, 2016, etc.) techno-horror thriller, a small band of misfits must counteract a full-scale demon possession of Portland, Oregon.īelow the internet we use every day lurks a violent and terrible place known as the Dark Net. Content Media handles international sales and distribution.Īlongside Winter, the film was produced by Marc Schiller and Glen Zipper. Ulbricht and us all.”ĭeep Web will make its world television premiere on EPIX in spring.
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The Silk Road and trial of Ross Ulbricht involves many important and complex issues that impact the life of Mr. Reeves commented: “I’m honoured to be working with Alex Winter on his timely and vital documentary, Deep Web. Premiering this Sunday at SXSW, the documentary chronicles one of the most important digital crime sagas of the century - the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur recently convicted of being ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. The EPIX Original Documentary marks the first time the Bill and Ted co-stars have worked together since 1993’s Freaked. Keanu Reeves will narrate Alex Winter’s Deep Web.
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