He tried to pirate a movie. The movie pirated him back.
An ambitious member of a movie-piracy ring attempts to steal a hot new film and winds up with much more than he bargained for.
Writing
Clever meta-twist that weaponizes the very act of watching.
Direction
Knowles squeezes feature-length tension into twenty tight minutes.
Director
John V. Knowles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the height of the MPAA's anti-piracy crackdown, making its premise deliciously timely.
The hacker aliases (Doobiewan, Poezer) are peak late-2000s internet culture—this is a period piece now.
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