9 Horror Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions
1. Unfriended: Dark Web - Your Mother Or You Girlfriend?
Another one that boils down to life or death in its purest form, Unfriended: Dark Web poses a nasty question - and consequence - that again proves just how much horror movies really want to make you squirm. Taking the framing device of the first movie as a screen recording of a computer as a group of friends video chat, we watch first hand as one evening unravels into a hellish experience, with a central second-hand laptop that the narrative plays out through drawing the attention of some incredibly unsavoury characters.
Said unsavoury characters are called Charons, who are working together to pin their crimes (namely kidnapping and torturing young women, murder, and anything else the dark web can conjure up) on Matias and his friends to avoid being detected by the law as the real perpetrators. Whilst plenty of decisions are thrown up throughout that will have you agonising over what exactly you can do when your life as you know it is being hacked into, there's one choice that stands out as the most heart-rending of all.
Friend Serena is forced to choose who to save between her mother, who's on life support, or her fiancee, who is standing at a train station. Whilst her indecision at such a brutal revelation results in the support being pulled, her girlfriend getting pushed onto the tracks, and her own throat being slit - it really posits the terrifying choice of who you'd back if it came down to the wire. Your family or your love?