"Nerve" explores the seldom mentioned, but real world of the 'dark web' that lurks across the universe and is eager to pounce on the too daring or curious minds.
Nerve is a selfie web game that allows its participants to be watchers or players. The players are given various dares from kissing a complete stranger to laying flat on a railroad track while an on coming train approaches. One guess what the watchers do. The players must video themselves or have some else recording while doing their devious dares, and are also timed. If the dare is completed within the time limit, anywhere from a $100.00 to several thousand dollars is deposited into the players bank account.
Nerve hit the big screen in July, and DVD on October 25, it stars the young actors Emma Roberts and Dave Franco.
Vee Delmonico (Roberts), a high school senior succumbs to peer pressure and becomes a player for the wacky and dangerous website Nerve. While playing the game she meets her love interest Ian, (Franco) who is also a player in the dark game. Together Ian and Vee participate in various dares such as potential shop lifting and riding a motor cycle blind folded.
When the two decide the dares are too much, it's too late to simply walk away from the game. Once the two are caught in the vortex of the Nerve, they could be killed or their friends or various family members could be murdered if they quit playing the game. With the aide of Vee's friends, the two find one way to potentially keep their money, and save their loved ones as well as themselves, or does everyone die?
Three stars for the movie "Nerve," it could have been even more intense, but I really did enjoy it, well worth a watch.
"Lights Out," also released on DVD October 25 is not a supernatural edge of your seat teeth grinder, but it was still psychologically creepy, and I flinched a couple of times in my seat.
Actress Maria Bello portrays the mother of Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) and Martin (Gabriel Bateman). Bello is a single mom living with her son Martin and a supernatural entity that murders. Rebecca fearing for her little brother, takes him away from her mom and the tension mounts for all three.
The shadowy female figure that roams around in the dark and kills, seems to have positive ties to Bello.
The dark entity hates the light so much, that it is completely harmless during the day and even a working flash light will keep its potential victims safe, even in the prime of night, yet this devious entity has it's way of cutting off the electricity.
Is Bello completely out of her mind and one who fuels this baleful being into its killing sprees? Rebecca, her boyfriend and her little brother are cast into a horrifying and deadly realm of the supernatural, and together they are forced to combat the chaos of a cryptic world.
"Lights Out" is extremely well acted and though it could have been a lot more mind chilling, I still give it three stars. It's a good flick to watch on Halloween.
