The new War of the Worlds movie is even more terrible than you’ve heard but also hilarious

Aug 13, 2025 - 14:08
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The new War of the Worlds movie is even more terrible than you’ve heard but also hilarious

There's a micro-genre of film called "screenlife movies," where all of the action takes place on a desktop computer. In 2014, Unfriended made a horror movie out of video chat and text messages, and it was successful enough to inspire a sequel. The more thoughtful Searching from 2018, in which a father attempts to find his missing daughter, felt novel and a bit more promising for the genre, even if an hour and a half really tested the amount of time you could look at a scrunched John Cho and Mac OS X.

Amazon Prime Video's new War of the Worlds reboot is different from those screenlife movies, in that it mostly takes place on Microsoft Window …

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