Demonlover

Some tame Japan and kink exoticism with echoes of nineties cyberpunk and techno culture though ten years later. For being a supposedly cutting edge tech thriller in a multi lingual international high stakes internet business environment it's strangely low tech even for 2002. Paper files and binders, fax machines, secret notes on paper and even websites on paper hardcopies. No emails, barely even mobile phones. A video on DV tape. Still, it's not bad, though lacking. The character developments and the twists keep it interesting but the flow is jerky and so is the editing and most of all the handheld camera. Ultimately it's a pretty well made but generic twistaroo thriller with some nice fragments of soundtrack though the kink and tech elements it's sold for seem like they have been forced into a preexisting script.

A 2000’s take on Videodrome, playing up heavily the corporate intrigue and of course early depictions of internet culture. Certainly interesting as a time capsule, and in relation to its obvious inspiration.