"Megan is missing" and "Trust"

Because a good friend is horror movie fan,we watched back-to-back two new horror movies.

"Megan is missing" is a chilling,warning story about two teenage girls who fall into hands of internet serial killer. Everything about the movie is very disturbing - director had clear intentions to make it realistic as possible (use of mobile phone camera,computer chat cameras and so on) and actors are believable enough to the point that one can't stop watching it although it's clear that story is not going to be a happy end.Equally disturbing is the fact that these kids would visit teenage parties where in order to be cool everybody gets drunk/druged and clearly it's difficult to actually have control of what children are actually doing when they go out. I will not go into big details here because story is full of surprises,but I have to mention that these two girls are school friends who are daily in touch and together they bond against the world,sharing their laughter,jokes,dreams and talk about boys. Than there is internet as a new social circle full of weirdos and things are often not what they seems.Some of the comments of people who watched this movie were angry and upset,but I believe it is a reaction to the seriousness of the story that resonates with everybody - it's impossible not to get upset with this movie and that was exactly director's intention. A warning.

"Trust" (2010) is equally disturbing but not as brutal visually - here we have comfortable middle class family where father works in advertisement industry (posters of half naked teenagers promoting clothes and basically brainwashing kids to look older and "desirable") and daughter has fixation with her internet friend who eventually shows up to be wolf in lamb's skin. Not as horrible as previous movie,but still upsetting because this time around girl is seduced and it takes her long time to admit to herself that she was a victim - while the whole family falls apart,girl still insist everybody is against "their love" until police search proves that this is a serial rapist who uses the same tricks to get teenage girls all over the country. Very interesting story with believable characters and excellent acting, Clive Owen plays the father who can't understand why exactly this happen to the daughter he adored and always wanted to protect - but as the movie shows,often we cant really protect the children even if we have best of the intentions.

Both movies are not the kind I would usually watch and maybe this is the reason why they stuck with me so long,my friend prefers the second movie because it's more drama,while I was more disturbed with the first one. However,now it's the time to watch something happy for a change and erase this from my head if it's possible.