Review of Open Windows (2014) by Horcrux2007 — 27 May 2015

Before Unfriended and The Den came out, the first "laptop horror film", Open Windows, in which the entire plot is told through the screen of a computer. I give it props for being very ambitious and having a interesting premise, but so much went wrong in this movie that those things aren't enough to make this a truly good movie.

Open Windows is about a man named Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood) who gets caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after given the chance to spy on his favorite movie actress, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey). The movie opens well enough, and it's mildly thrilling until the film starts thinking it's smarter than it actually is.

Open Windows bombards you with plot twists after only 20 minutes, and I don't mean little tiny revelations that are found in virtually every movie. I mean plot-altering events, and there's one of them about every 10 minutes.

This movie just tries to go bigger and crazier as the plot progresses, and it gets so confusing and aggravating that you don't care by the time you get to the final act. Open Windows was a huge disappointment for me.

If you want effective laptop horror, I suggest The Den or Unfriended.