Freddy Krueger meets The Ring meets Hackers.

I wouldn’t call this movie DVD-worthy, and likewise I probably won’t ever watch it again, but I do feel you need to see it at least once, in the same fashion that Hackers needed to be watched at least once. If you like survival horror video games, you need to watch this movie to cringe at the use of all the survival horror video game references and conversations that real gamers don’t actually use or have (like watching actors in Hackers read lines about processor speeds).

It’s a clever premise and they mostly pull it off. It gets much better near the end when they start to use the game against itself.