Paul Solet, a former protege of Eli Roth, is the creator of this psycho-supernatural scary movie. It is an efficiently crafted, small-scale film with an interesting premise, although it sometimes feels like an atmospheric short that has been stretched out. Keir Gilchrist (the shy best friend from It Follows) plays Daniel, who has recently been convicted of cyber-stalking a classmate, Mona (Grace Phipps). In near-universal disgrace, Daniel is now under house arrest at his mother’s home, forced to wear an ankle-bracelet alarm that will bring the cops if he leaves the premises – as in the Shia LaBeouf movie Disturbia, which the film pre-emptively references. He is utterly alone as his mother is away: the only visitors are his menacing probation officer Stokes (Peter Stormare) and some loyal friends: Kevin (Maestro Harrell) and also Abby (Stella Maeve) who has feelings for Daniel. It is while Daniel hooks up an illicit Skype link with the outside world that horrors start to come flooding in. Solet sets up an unusual reversal of sympathies and gender stereotypes, with a male stalker becoming the victim of a female demon. It delivers a sly, sharp stab.
