The Deep Web: Murdershow

This movie is a very weird one to review. Its quality throughout its duration ranges from awful to stupid fun. It is shot and lit relatively well, however, it seems that for as much effort they put into the camera and lighting work, a fraction of it was put into the script, plot, and finding competent actors.

The main character is Tubi's attempt to have a relatable millennial protagonist, but my friends and I all ended up hating his, true crime podcaster persona. Also, the movie tries to make him queer-coded with his family shunning him for a reason we are not privy to, however, it is very clear that the writers are insinuating that he is gay. But in the end, they pulled their punches having him and the final girl become a couple. This might've been Tubi stepping in saying they didn't want a queer main character.

Tubi clearly spent more money on this original than they do on most other ones (see "Shark side of the moon") however their understanding of the dark web is just laughably bad. You could watch 5 SomeOrdinayGamers videos and have a better understanding of it than the writers do.

By the way, the girl killer is on a dark website called "readit" in one scene which I thought was stupidly funny.

This is another one of those "internet bad" movies where movie studios will use the boogeyman of the deep web in order to get unsuspecting people to view the movie.

While not as blatantly exploitative as movies like Unfriended: Dark Web and Megan is Missing, a lot of this movie's "horror" relies on people not having a basic understanding of how the deep web works.

Overall, a fun, stupid movie that you shouldn't show to your cinema studies friends, but a decent one to show to your bad movie friends.

Poor choices made by both the casting crew, directors, writers, and me for sitting through it hoping there would be an unpredictable twist somewhere.

But, no. Poor acting, genre tries to hit suspense, dark comedy, gore and drama but misses all of them in the process. Scenes not particularly well shot. No satisfying conclusion.

The script and flow could have benefitted from an entire overhaul, in all honesty. Many questions left unanswered which don't seem to be a case of 'viewer can surmise their own personal outcome here' type questions.

Only thing that drew me in initially was the title - unfortunately the film totally missed the mark, when there was so much potential there.

There seems to be an effort lately to make these kinds of horror movies a little better again. This is good news because the audience deserves better. Creating creative scenes in low-budget productions can't be easy, and The Deep Web Murdershow dares to try. Is it enough? Of course not. The production, which resembles the horror movies you have watched before, starts very quickly. It slows down after a while, but then the tension increases rapidly. There could have been better acting and better scenes with wild content, but for the genre, it can be watched without getting bored. The ending is more or less predictable and some parts are minus points, but it can be considered a good choice among similar ones.

Terrible acting, terrible scenario.

Its obvious that they dont know anything about dark web, cti, osint, malwares etc. You should have hired a real cyber security consultant that specialized in cti, dark web and cybercrime.

Firstly these type of groups cant perform consistent physical activities in areas that includes cameras in all streets/stores. Even the base stations would be enough to track these type of criminals.

Especially in US/Europe this kind of consistent kidnapping, murder and physical stalking is not possible. This type of consistent crime that involves physical and cyber activity can only be possible in decentralized groups(i mean in different countries different killers same streaming platform) or 3rd world countries.

Even the phone scene. How the f this man's phone hacked without any interaction. Its only possible with Pegasus spyware and these type of groups cant have the access to that malware.

Not even so bad it's good, it's just bad.

Everything is over exaggerated, I have no idea what they were going for. In parts it's like they were trying to be serious, in others it was as if they said screw it, let's make the most hammed up ridiculous film we can make.

Absolutely nothing sticks and everything stinks.

All but one of the actors were atrocious, seriously, only one of them could actually act.

The dialogue is hilariously bad, not a single conversation in the film would happen in real life.

It's a shame because the premise was decent, by the right people it could have been great, alas it was far from it.

Avoid like the plague.