10 Movies That Tried To Make The Internet Scary

10. The Net

Attention 90s films: If you're played by Dennis Miller, in all likelihood you're going to die.

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In this particularly ridiculous attempt to makes audiences fear chat rooms and sharing any personal information online, Sandra Bulllock plays a shut-in who works from home, living on a computer that looks like its best feature is the ability to run Oregon Trail.

But she does much more than that, even ordering pizza.

While on vacation, her purse is stolen by a charming stranger (Jeremy Northam) who then sets about stealing her identity. Turns out, Northam is a hitman working for a group of cyberterrorits who plan to...do something with computers.

Likely, they want to crash a lot of them, but it's too complex or boring to get into detail. Bullock succeeds in retrieving her identity and exposing the evil group, but spare a thought for Dennis Miller, whose death is so convoluted it'd make the Jon Benet Ramsey killing look like Robert Chamber's endevers in killing.

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