Cyberstalker (2012)

I love this movie so much

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Cyberstalker also known as Offline is a made for cable Lifetime television film starring Mischa Barton who plays Aidan whose parents were murdered 13 years earlier. The killer was never caught which still taxes the detective in charge. Now she spends time as a reclusive artist but it seems the cyberstalker is back to terrorise her.The film is low budget, quickly shot, formulaic but rather watchable if you switch your brain offline. The culprit could only be the characters we have been introduced to which could be the detective, her new boyfriend, the Svengali gallery owner or the wheelchair bound computer expert newly employed by the police.I reckon there is no need for Columbo or Sherlock to solve this whodunit. There is plenty of silliness as our cyberstalker can hack into and control traffic lights for example. Still Lifetime know which audience to aim their films at, its female friendly with enough thrills to keep you mildly entertained.

This film was one of the worst I have ever seen. Felt like a made for TV low budget poorly acted film. Honestly I kept watching it because it was like a train wreck. It was like they had gone to a film school and said, now we have a really poor idea for a film, do you want to act in it for free and make a film so terrible you will be embarrassed to put it on your cv, and they all said yes. I would be beyond mortified if I had been a part of that film. Worst of all is that you never find out how/why the stalker started stalking her in the first place. Truly truly terrible. Not even sure what to write now to fill in how much I didn't like this film. For me it was right down there with Blair Witch Project.

I'm a sucker for these Lifetime popcorn movies and Cyberstalker is another fun one. I used to think it was cool to have good looking guys stalking me online, now not so much LOL. Dan Levy as the ultimate computer nerd puts in a great performance as does the dreamy Marco Grazzini as Ms OC's boyfriend.I found myself yelling at the screen "Don't go in there" a couple times, which I'm sure freaked out my neighbors haha. I was torn on the whodunnit, still always thinking that it was going to turn back to the art dealer (great interrogation scene performance by the way). The last shot I wasn't sure if they were setting it up for a sequel or just saying that we're all being watched all the time. Ambiguous can be good I guess. It definitely got me to check the locks on my door a couple extra times before I went to bed.As most of these movies, it suffers from budget issues but that's the nature of the LMN beast. Where it lacks in production value, it makes up for in good old suspenseful fun.

Based (or maybe inspired by is more appropriate) on a true story, Cyberstalker puts a modern spin on a traditional Fatal Attraction type story as we find a man obsessed using the internet and technology to stalk, harass, and ultimately kill Mischa Barton's character Aidan.To me, it was reminiscent of Untraceable with Diane Lane but on a smaller scale. Surely shot in Canada, Cyberstalker has its ups and downs and a few good twists. Notable standout performance are put in by Marco Grazzini and Mark Caven.It was better than I expected it to be and is worth the watch if you like TV thrillers or mysteries.