💎💎THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE💎💎 – A teen angst thriller at a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. Story follows a senior, Chrissie, who is skeptical and another, Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim. Chrissie’s last week of high school in Downers Grove, IL, is a paranoid trip through a small Midwestern town gripped by a “curse” that claims the life of one high school senior every year. With only five days to graduation, Chrissie Swanson is beginning to wonder if she will be the next victim of the Curse of Downers Grove. The haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of life or death. She’s an unusual girl in an ordinary town. Her mother’s sex life is overshadowing her own; her brother is aboard his own private Enterprise, slipping into one black hole after another; her best friend is hornier than a Prince song; leaving her eccentric grandmother as the only source of wisdom in a rapid downward spiral. As Chrissie tries to take control of the events that shape her life, she finds the events beginning to take control of her, until she is finally cornered by choices with everlasting consequences. Full of humor, wit and the sacrilegious worldview of a savvy teenager, Downers Grove paints a searing portrait of the American dream in all of its broken glory.The Curse of Downers Grove is an American thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis. Based on the 1998 novel Downers Grove by Michael Hornburg, the film stars Kevin Zegers, Bella Heathcote, Penelope Mitchell, Lucas Till, Zane Holtz, Helen Slater and Tom Arnold. The film received a limited theatrical release on August 21, 2015 and a subsequent DVD/Blu-Ray release on September 1, 2015. Set in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the film is a teen angst thriller set in a high school gripped by an apparent curse that claims the life of a senior every year. The story follows the lives of two seniors: Chrissie, who is skeptical of the curse and Tracy, who believes that she may be the next victim.
💎💎THE DEN💎💎- The Den (released in some countries as Hacked) is a 2013 American slasher film by Zachary Donohue and his feature film directorial debut. The film was first released in Russia on December 23, 2013 and was given a simultaneous limited theatrical and VOD release on March 14, 2014, through IFC Midnight. It stars Melanie Papalia as a young woman who discovers a murder via webcam. The film is shot as a computer screen film. While studying the habits of web cam chat users from the apparent safety of her own home, a young woman’s life begins to spiral out of control after witnessing a grisly murder online. A young victim studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim. The movie begins with Elizabeth logging into a webcam-based social media site known as The Den, which allows users to chat with random strangers across the world, similar to Chatroulette. For her graduation project in Sociology, she proposes to chat with as many strangers as possible and calculate how many meaningful conversations she can accumulate. The graduate board reluctantly gives her a grant, with the help of Sally, one of her friends on the graduate board pushing for her approval. She spends the next few months continuously chatting with strangers, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, Damien and friends Jenni and Max. Though most of her chats are quickly ended due to sexual content or scams, she accumulates plenty of data and is optimistic about the outcome of the project.While chatting with strangers with Jenni, Elizabeth encounters a woman whose webcam appears to be broken. The stranger reacts aggressively to Jenni when Elizabeth is away from the webcam and Jenni logs off. Afterwards, Elizabeth’s account is hacked and her webcam is repeatedly turned on without her permission. The stranger attempts to chat with Elizabeth again the next day while she is in a coffee shop but logs off quickly when another customer approaches the webcam. That night, Damien surprises Elizabeth by showing up to her home in the middle of the night and Elizabeth’s hacked webcam records the couple having sex before the hacker sends the video to Elizabeth’s graduate board. Later, Elizabeth is prompted to chat with the stranger again; the stranger reveals that they witnessed Elizabeth having sex and later their webcam turns on and reveals the account holder bound and gagged before being murdered by a masked man. Elizabeth is shaken and immediately takes the video of the murder to the police, who acknowledge that it appears genuine but advise her that such snuff films are usually faked and there is little they can do about it. Though Elizabeth later stumbles upon a disturbingly realistic depiction of a death during a game of Russian Roulette that turns out to be faked and her friends (including Max, who is a computer scientist) insist that it is a hoax, she remains unconvinced and is determined to solve the murder. However, both the police and the other users of The Den turn out to be unhelpful. When she enlists Max to hack the account to see where it originated, he finds that it has been routed through countless proxies and is untraceable.Damien is abducted while chatting with Elizabeth, who has her back turned at the moment of his kidnapping and does not realize he is missing until she receives a bizarre call from his computer, showing his house completely empty. Though Elizabeth implores the police to investigate, they tell her that there is nothing that they can do. Meanwhile, Jenni is lured to Elizabeth’s house by the hacker, who pretends to be Elizabeth and abducts her when she arrives. While harried from trying to find a way to reach Damien, Elizabeth receives an angry call from Sally, informing her that the video of her and Damien having sex was sent to the entire graduate board. Sally does not believe Elizabeth when the latter insists she was hacked and informs her that her grant is suspended until further notice. Later, while trying to reach Jenni, Elizabeth is lured to her house, where she finds the power cut. Seeing water flooding from the bathroom, Elizabeth enters to find Jenni in the bathtub, her wrists slashed in an apparent suicide attempt. Though Jenni is alive when Elizabeth finds her, she dies soon after and Elizabeth finds a suicide note emailed to her, ostensibly from the hacker posing as Jenni.Elizabeth is further shaken when she receives a message showing the attackers stalking and entering a home owned by Lynn, Elizabeth’s pregnant sister. Though Elizabeth notifies the police and calls Lynn to warn her, the message is garbled. The attackers bind Lynn and prepare to cut open her stomach, but abruptly leave, hiding the camera as they do so. Later, when the house is surrounded by police, one of the attackers returns and picks up the camera, revealing that they are either part of law enforcement or posing as a police officer. The attacker fixates on the father of Lynn’s child, who she is separated from, irritating her. The attacker leaves and gets into the car and follows Elizabeth back to her home, where she is packing in preparation to keep her sister company. She receives a chat request from Max, which shows the head the lead detective entering Max’s house, only to be murdered. Elizabeth calls for help from the officer guarding her, but she finds him murdered as well. She is attacked by a hooded figure hidden in her closet, but she stabs him repeatedly and flees, only to be apprehended by another hooded attacker outside.Elizabeth awakens in a room of a nightmarish, abandoned complex, chained to a wall with a GoPro stapled to her forehead. A computer is in the room, forcing her to chat with the abducted Damien, who informs her that there are many other attackers. She is also shown a recorded video of Max being strangled with plastic wrap by the killers. Damien is then beaten and taken away to presumably be killed offscreen. Afterwards, another hooded man enters the room with Elizabeth, preparing to kill her, but she overpowers him and strangles him with her chain. Unlocking her shackles with his keys, she attempts to escape the dark complex, armed with a discarded hammer. She is chased by a number of killers, one of whom is a young man who she attacks, demanding to know where Damien is; he tells her that he is not there. She manages to escape to aboveground, bludgeoning other attackers before hijacking one of their cars, but crashes when blindsided by another member’s car; she is removed from the wreck by the killers dragged back to the complex. The film cuts to another woman, Brianne, on The Den who chatted with Elizabeth at the start of the project. Much like Elizabeth’s first interaction with the killers, she is lured to chat when one of the attackers pretends Elizabeth’s webcam is broken. Brianne then views a recording of Elizabeth being hanged almost to death and then shot in the head by the killers. It is then revealed that the video of Elizabeth’s death is also viewed by a man surfing a website that features snuff film “narratives” of victims lured by killers exploiting The Den and is preparing to pay for Brianne’s “narrative” before being interrupted by his young son.
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