Chatroom

A group of teenagers meet William in an online chatroom he has set up, and they are drawn in by his charisma and his apparent understanding of their problems. Eva, Emily, Mo and Jim each confide in him about their parents, their friendships and their anxieties, and he listens and offers advice. What they do not realise is that William is a disturbed loner who finds ordinary contact with people difficult and prefers to work on them through the internet, steering them toward risky decisions rather than helping them.

Chatroom is a British drama and thriller directed by Hideo Nakata, the eighth of the eighteen films he has directed to date, following Death Note: L Change the WorLd and preceding The Complex. The screenplay is by Enda Walsh, and the cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson as William, Imogen Poots as Eva, Matthew Beard as Jim, Hannah Murray as Emily, Tuppence Middleton as Candy and Daniel Kaluuya as Mo, with forty-three credited cast members and seventy-one credited crew.

Released in 2010 and running ninety-seven minutes, the film was made by Film4 Productions, the UK Film Council, Ruby Films and WestEnd Films. Reception has been modest across the board: on IMDb it holds 5.4 out of 10 from around ten thousand votes, while on TMDB it stands at 5.8 from a much smaller base of 314. A critics' rating of 3.5 out of 10 from twenty-three reviews sits below both audience scores.