Beating Unfriended (the next entry on this list) to the punch by about a year, but without approaching that film’s impressive box office take, The Den has been largely forgotten—unfortunate, given that it was a trailblazer, if not quite a masterpiece. Melanie Papalia plays a grad student working on a sociology thesis exploring the extent to which she’s able to engage in meaningful interactions via “The Den,” a service very much like Chatroulette that allows users to connect with strangers at random. Given that this is a horror movie, she soon sees something she oughtn’t have, and has a hard time convincing anyone to help, even when he own life is in danger. Though a lot of the plot is fairly by the numbers, it builds to a clever climax while making the effectively straightforward point that what we think of (or once thought of) as online anonymity is maybe not so much.
Where to stream: Digital rental
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