Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom dials up more images

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Hideo Nakata is breaking away from the J-horror mold a little bit with CHATROOM, which was recently added to the 2010 Cannes Film Festival line-up. It’s good to see that the director is trying out new things, at least from my perspective; I just know him as the guy who does RING movies to be quite honest (a couple of them are pretty bad too). This flick, with an all British cast, is a step in a more intriguing direction for the man.

Chatroom is a contemporary tale of disenchanted youths who meet online. What begins as harmless fun turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse that crosses over into the offline world.

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Eric Walkuski

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