uwantme2killhim?

A teenage boy named Mark spends much of his time in online chatrooms, where he becomes involved with Rachel, a young woman with a secretive background. What begins as an intense long-distance relationship takes a different turn when she asks him to look out for her younger brother John, who is being bullied at school. Mark, initially reluctant, forms a friendship with the boy. When he is told that Rachel has been killed, he refuses to accept it and starts looking into what happened, drawn into a situation built on manipulation and violence that overturns his ordinary life. The film is based on a Vanity Fair article and was released in 2013 under the title uwantme2killhim?

Andrew Douglas directed the film, his second feature after The Amityville Horror in 2005, from a screenplay by Mike Walden. Jamie Blackley plays Mark, with Toby Regbo as John, Jaime Winstone as Rachel, Joanne Froggatt as Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton, Liz White as Janet and Stephanie Leonidas as Kelly. It was produced by Jason Taylor, Steve Golin and Simon Crocker for The Weinstein Company, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Entertainment One and Anonymous Content, and runs 93 minutes.

The film sits in the drama and thriller genres and was made as a British-American production. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from roughly 3,300 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 5.9 out of 10 from 68 votes. By comparison, the audience scores on both platforms are close to the middle of the scale.