Social media today is not just a way to find your old friends and connect with your family but is a huge instrument for promoting various things. Many people like to spend time on social network platforms and share exciting finds with their audience.
For this, they use Instagram Live, for example, which presents an opportunity to speak with fans and interest them with thrilling information and advice on cool films and movies. The obsession with fame is so big that people can buy for IG live views or other stats for their Instagram accounts. Platforms like Insta are equivalent to:
- getting new information,
- having fun,
- Improving mood,
- Relaxing, etc.
But there are movies that remind us that the internet can also sometimes be a creepy place. Here is the list of top scary and suspense movies that will make you want to leave your phone far away from your bedside before sleep and then recommend this listing to your live viewers on Instagram.
Don’t *Mess* With Cats: Hunting And Internet Killer
New bait for True Crime fans. This is a documentalist series that shows us the literal hunt for an online maniac who posts videos on the internet that show how he kills cats to collect live views. Things get more severe as the next video depicts how the hooded person commits actual murder. You definitely won’t sleep well the next night.
Unfriended: Dark Web
Scouting a local cyber cafe lost and found, Matias finds a laptop. He begins using it to connect with his friends. The idyllic ending comes when Matias understands that the laptop is somehow connected to the dark web and someone has been watching them. The film has a special atmosphere due to the fact that it is filmed like a screen capture and live stream.
Spree
Kurt Kunkle, portrayed by talented Joe Keery from Stranger Things, dreams of becoming famous on the Internet. To make his dream come true, after a few unsuccessful ideas, Kurt chooses a wicked way. Working as a rideshare driver, he kills people, live-streaming for views of his deeds to become a celebrity finally.
Another detail that adds this film a dash of peculiar feeling in the back of your spine is the reaction of Kurt’s audience, which is also exposed in the movie, showing how twisted humanity can be in real life and on social media such as Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Black Mirror
Many episodes of this British series explore the darker side of modern rapid technology and social media growth. Many of these scenarios can seem unrealistic, but we never know where the next turn will take us. In fact, many people still don’t know much about tech progress, and the series shows us how dire the consequences of such poor knowledge, as well as mindless usage of social media, Instagram and technology, can be.
CAM
Alice wants to make a profit by running mature streams to gain live views on the Internet. Everything seems fine and her account ranks well. Suddenly, her account is stolen from her. Locked out of her profile, Alice can only watch how the content goes darker and darker, including pornography and violence. Watching this movie will give a new life to your fear of identity theft.
Searching
Margot, a teenage girl, disappears mysteriously. David, Margot’s father, begins his investigation, building a web of clues from:
- her photos,
- videos,
- notes,
- everything she posted online.
High-quality suspense has made this screen film awarded with high ratings from live viewers, movie watchers and professionals as well – the film was selected at the Sundance festival and praised by many critics as a big game-changer. It has a huge fanbase with a lot of Instagram accounts as well.
The Social Dilemma
Want some conspiracy and plotting for evening thoughts? Watch this exciting documentary. This is about designers and engineers who created social networks like:
- Twitter,
- Instagram,
- Facebook.
They reveal how everything that is designed in the apps and web interfaces of social media is targeted to control the behavior of users, impacting their minds and actions. In private interviews, the workers who made social media so addicting and entertaining will tell you how the effects become bigger and bigger, influencing and clashing communities online.
You can experience it by using Live Views, Reels, Stories, Polls, etc.
Host
This movie will be a diamond for supernatural fans. Six friends perform a spiritual seance online during the pandemic, just for fun and killing time. However, what started for fun, ends dramatically as the pals begin noticing troublesome and mystic events at their homes. They realize that their seance has released something demonic.
Hard Candy
Although this film is quite old, it was released in 2005, before Instagram and IG live were launched, and it still tells us a story that we all must consider today. Sexual predator grooms a young girl online. She agrees to meet him in the cafe and follows him home. However, after drinking a cocktail, the man faints and then wakes up being tied to a chair, while his potential victim turns into his executioner. The film reminds us of the importance of online hygiene and children’s safety.
Nerve
This film is based on the bestselling novel by Jeanne Ryan. The plot tells us the story of a young girl Vee, who gets involved in an online game – reckless truth or dare for cash. She decides to compete in hopes of changing her life. The first tasks are daring, yet nothing special, like kissing a random guy. But then, things turn more serious and dangerous, though Vee is not going to stop on her way to the biggest prize.
Not Okay
If you love the note of absurdity – you should definitely check this one out. This satiric story turns out to be top-quality suspense., as we dive into the life of Dani, a young graphic editor, who wants to make a good impression on a guy by using Instagram popularity. She uses photoshop to illustrate her lie about being on vacation in Paris. But her imaginary being in Paris happens at the same time as a dreadful terroristic track. Instead of saying that she is fine and revealing the ugly truth, Dani decides to cry on with her lies, leading herself to much more serious trouble.
Clickbait
This is a relatively new series that you can watch on Netflix. The plot tells us a mysterious and full of crazy suspense story about a man named Nick Brewer. Suspicious videos appear online, where Nick is filmed holding cardboard signs with creepy texts. The final text says, “At 5 million views, I die”. These events mix up the lives of the Brewer family, while they try to find out how Nick was kidnapped and why he exposes such serious accusations for himself.
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
One of the Sundance festival favorites of 2021, this horror takes into the depth of a young adult’s soul, full of mystery and chaos. Casey is a teenage girl who suffers from loneliness. She decides to participate in an online challenge that is rumored to inevitably change the lives of everyone who takes part in it.
The film dwells between social drama and character study, giving the heroine great depth and revealing her motivation well. Also, the movie concerns modern problems of loneliness that many users experience and exposes the unhealthy options for this problem and social media obsession with social media like Instagram.
Conclusion
The film industry is only beginning to develop the topic of social media in our lives. There are many rumors and urban legends that people spread over the topic of social media, as well as quite real problems of addiction and mental disorders that can be caused or severed by using Instagram, YT and others. However, scary movies are one of the quickest evolving genres as they are targeted to creep people out. Thus the creators of scary and suspenseful movies discover how people react to social media and the development of its new features.
