Cyberbully

Cyberbully is a British television thriller about Casey Jacobs, a seventeen-year-old who finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous hacker. What begins as an ordinary online conversation with her friend Megan turns into a ordeal when a stranger seizes control of her computer and her accounts. The hacker claims to be punishing her for a message she posted that set off a campaign of abuse against a classmate, Jennifer Li, and demands that Casey follow his instructions to atone. When she hesitates, he threatens to release compromising photographs of her and the people around her. Much of the story unfolds in real time, with Casey confined to her room as the demands escalate.

Ben Chanan directed the film and wrote the screenplay with David Lobatto, with Leah Cooper producing for RAW. It sits early in Chanan's filmography and is built around a small cast led by Maisie Williams as Casey, alongside Ella Purnell, Haruka Abe, Jake Davies, Daisy Waterstone and Wilson Haagens. Running just over an hour, it is a compact, single-location piece.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.7 from roughly 8,200 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4 from around 240 votes. The two audience scores are close, indicating a generally favourable but not enthusiastic response.