In Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new unnerving tech thriller, the titular cloud seems like it would be referring to the data cloud, where all our digital information goes to be stored. It is, after all, a film about a reseller whose ruthless tactics get him in trouble with the dark side of the internet. But the title could also describe the oppressive pall that hangs over the entire movie, bathing the film in a disquieting dread that feels both intimately familiar and unknowable. It’s kind of like the feeling of being on the internet.
There’s perhaps no contemporary director that understands the true horrors of modern technology than Kiyoshi Kurosawa. His 2001 ghost movie, Pulse, was one of the earliest horror films to nail the chilly loneliness of the internet. And, 24 years later, Kurosawa returns to the techno-horror genre with Cloud, an eerie, lean noir thriller that charts an unnerving odyssey through the strange underworld of online resellers.
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