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The director of Boiling Point is back to turn up the heat once again in this grippingly lean thriller about an all-too-plausible fear of becoming the main character online.

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00:00 Out in the US on Tubi and in the UK on Netflix is Accused, the new thriller from Philip Barentini,

00:05 the director of Boiling Point.

00:07 In the aftermath of a terror attack, Chenille Coulard's Harry finds himself misidentified

00:12 as the perpetrator by an online witch hunt, and is attacked by two vigilantes who track

00:17 into his parents' country home.

00:19 Accused is chillingly timely and relevant.

00:22 We've all seen how a misaccusation online can snowball to a dangerous extreme, especially

00:27 in this case where it's teamed with racism and stereotyping, and while there are a few

00:31 moments that stretch credibility, it remains eerily plausible.

00:35 Coulard, best known for his work on Sex Education, is fantastic in the lead role of what is often

00:40 a one-man show, getting increasingly terrified as events spiral further and further from

00:47 his grasp.

00:48 It does become more of a conventional home invasion thriller in the second half, but

00:51 it's a well-executed one.

00:52 Barentini knows how to draw tension out of minimalism, and there was genuinely a lot

00:56 of moments where my heart was pounding in my chest.

Accused (2023) (REVIEW) | Projector Short | A terrifying online cautionary tale

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