In the age of Ice Bucket Challenges andDoofl(a “dare to do more for charity” app),Nervetakes world of viral-friendly truth-or-dare challenges to the next level. The first trailer, featuringEmma RobertsandDave Franco, has arrived and showcases the dark side of the Internet. Well, notUnfriendeddark, but dark nonetheless.
Roberts plays Vee, a high school senior who hasn’t been “living life,” so she does what anyone who’s having a late-teen life crisis might do: participate in a series of intense competition of dares for the watchers on the Web. While it starts out all fun and games — and she even becomes mildly Internet famous through her partnership with Franco’s character — she soon becomes the victim of identity theft by the game-makers, who remind me a lot of the same figures inThe Hunger Games.
Watch the trailer below:
Nerveis actually based on a novel byJeanne Ryan, andthe Amazon descriptioneven begins with “For fans ofThe Hunger Games,” so you know it’s chasing down that Millennial audience.Henry JoostandAriel Schulman, who co-directedParanormal Activity 4andCatfish, re-team to helm this film adaptation, which also featuresJuliette Lewis.
When it comes to films that take advantage of Web-friendly mediums like this, it’s easy to scoff at. But then I think of something likeUnfriended, which seemed like it would turn out horrendous and actually ended up scaring the crap out of me. Here’s hoping we all will have the nerve to watchNerve.
The film hits theaters on July 27. Here’s the official plot synopsis:
