Ratter (2015)
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't realize is that she's sharing her life with an uninvited and dangerous guest. A hacker is following Emma’s every move. When the voyeuristic thrill of watching her digitally isn't enough, the situation escalates to a dangerous and terrifying level.
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A different way of telling a story
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
how the hell do they have the guy come in and "kidnap/kill" her and have it end without us knowing if the chick lives or dies? i want answers! It was a great movie movie up until the part where he comes in and she is caught and he attacks her... why did the cat die? and what happened to Michael? he just disappeared! it was not okay! I WANT ANSWERS..
This movie was the worst "horror" movie, it never gets to the point and you know how some movies have an open ending this movie has no ending, out of nowhere it just ends without you knowing anything!! I'm so disappointed in Ashley Benson for starring in such a dumb and annoying movie. It only has like two characters and it all uses a phone and computer camera!! It seems like a school project not an actual movie.
Ratter aims to be a chilling moral story about technology and cameras in our lives. All the shots are from web cams, cell phones or video game systems (though like all movies of this kind, the idea of somebody being on a computer for some of the shots strains credibility).This set up can work sometimes, if the tension is constantly building. Unfortunately, with Ratter, there is no tension building. Emma moves to NYC, severing all ties with people other than her family. She meets a boy there, and makes friends with a couple people. Suddenly some weird stuff starts happening with her phone and computer. We suspect hacking, but don't really know.The movie goes on like this for the first 70 of its 80 minutes. Good movies in this genre start slow and build and build and build. Ratter stays flat the whole way through. The last 10 minutes ratchets it up to 10, but it doesn't fit with the rest of the movie. That is also ignoring how non-sensical the ending is. There's no explanation given, it's just kind of an ending that means nothing.Avoid.
There's a lot of negative reviews for this film and, while I can see some of the issues pointed out by other users, I actually liked this much more than expected.I found this film to be quite disturbing. It's a slow burn and yes, the fact that the entire film is shot on hand held devices can be a bit off-putting. I found it really effective though, and a simple way to highlight our reliance on technology. There are screens everywhere - I'm writing this on my phone and my laptop is open playing a series on my TV. As a woman who has lived alone and has had her fair share of creeps, this movie builds the sense of dread quite well. Others have commented on its boring nature, but for me it was effective simply because it was about the quotidian activities of our lives - there's no horror, no major twists and turns, it's just about the life of one fairly ordinary (albeit pretty damn gorgeous) young woman.That's why it works. She's realistic and relatable so seeing the escalation of the stalker's actions and its impact on her life and the people around her is super creepy.