Chatter
2010 · 8m · Norway
Directed by Leo Resnes
Genres: horror
A young woman witnesses something deeply disturbing online, then experiences a power outage — and when the lights come back on, she senses she is no longer alone in her apartment.
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Norwegian horror short where the internet shows you something awful and then the lights go out and something comes. This was 2010 — before screen-life horror was a genre. Resnes was there first with a single actress and a good idea executed clean.
Webcam-as-horror-vector before that was a worn sub-genre — Resnes finds the J-horror lineage (Pulse most clearly) and brings it to a Norwegian apartment. The premise has been done since; this is closer to the source.
Leo Resnes in 2010 — pre-Unfriended, pre-Pulse-remake — staking out internet horror plus domestic intrusion as twin vectors. A young woman, a power outage, the suspicion she's not alone. Modest but ahead of its sub-genre.