Scre4m (2011)

★★★
Kevin Williamson used the time well between Scream 3 and Scre4m. In those eleven years, he saved up enough good ideas and had the opportunity to watch how horror movies were evolving in the new millennium. His movie is shockingly prescient. Social media is making stars out of anyone who can acquire a large following by creating and posting videos (I hate the word "content") that show everything from the ordinary to the outrageous, but the extent to which some creators will go to gain validation has gotten worse since this movie came out in 2011. Scre4m exposes the dark and ugly side of online fame. Watching someone find a lost kitten sounds benign until you realize it was staged.

Eye of the Beholder (2000)

★★
In an interview for T.V. Guide, Ewan McGregor was discussing his role in Star Wars: Episode 1—The Phantom Menace. He said that he appeared in this big-budgeted movie because of the prestige of the series, but that he would continue to do all the small, independent efforts that he truly enjoys doing. In one of his comments, he said that he would never "taint [his] soul with crap like Independence Day." Well, I guess that didn't stop him from appearing in Eye of the Beholder, which isn't crap but comes close to it by employing a weak story with even weaker plot connections.