Review of Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022) by Kikl — 29 Jul 2022

This movie covers a case of sexual crimes on social media in South Korea that I was really not aware of. The horrible truth about how women are lured into being victims of sexual blackmailing on the internet is being told through journalists and recreating messages from the the chat room were the cybercrimes happened.

There are also graphic animations which support the content of the movie, and give the audience an idea of how it must have felt to be a victim of the digital crimes in the chat rooms. This movie is not particularly comfortable to watch, and I often found some information in it shocking and disturbing.

Especially, the graphics and the messages that the cyber criminals wrote to the victims can be hard and uncomfortable to watch, since it tells a terrible but important truth. The movie is very effective in explaining how, what and who this cyber crime case is about, and journalists are interviewed to give the audience these details.

The structure of the movie is organized following the case through its years, which is something I really liked.