Paranoia 10
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67% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery Duration Language English | 6.1/10 IMDb Music director Terry Huud Country United StatesRomaniaIceland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Jeff RenfroeMarteinn Thorsson Release date January 2004 (2004-01) (Sundance) Writer Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson Directors Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson Initial DVD release May 11, 2004 (Netherlands) Cast (Simon), (Derrick), (Trish), (Howard), (Neighbour) Similar movies Tagline Are you infected? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Corporate workers use a computer programmer (Jeremy Sisto) as a guinea pig in a secret experiment.
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Paranoia: 1.0 (originally One Point O, also known as 1.0, One Point Zero, Version 1.0, and Virus 1.0) is a 2004 cyberpunk science fiction film written and directed by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson. The film is a Kafkaesque nightmare in which a young computer programmer is an unwitting guinea pig in a corporate experiment to test a new advertising scheme. The film stars Jeremy Sisto and Deborah Unger and features Lance Henriksen, Eugene Byrd, Bruce Payne and Udo Kier.
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
Plot
When network engineer Simon J. (Jeremy Sisto) begins finding empty plain brown paper packages in his apartment, he goes to great length to try and secure his boundaries, but the packages keep appearing. Simon attempts to find out who is leaving the packages, and his investigation exposes him to his eccentric neighbors, an artificial intelligence robot head, created by Derrick (Udo Kier) who occupies an apartment across the hall from Simon, a virtual reality sex-game, created by the Neighbour (Bruce Payne) who occupies the apartment next to Simons, and the possibility of a corporate conspiracy. At the same time Simon, who works in IT, is under pressure to complete a programming project and develops a romantic relationship with another of the apartment blocks residents, Trish (Deborah Kara Unger).
With security cameras watching him constantly, Simon begins to lose his grip on reality, and develops an inexplicable craving for Nature Fresh brand milk. Simon becomes increasingly puzzled as murders begin happening in the building. Simon eventually finds out that everyone else is receiving packages too but were keeping quiet. These people also got addicted to consuming other products like fresh juice, cola 500 and farm fresh meat. One of Simons friends, a courier named Nile (Eugene Byrd), tells Simon about a corporate experiment to ‘infuse’ Nanomites into peoples brains to make them addicted to certain products. He first dismisses it as a lie but eventually understands that it is indeed what is happening.
Cast
Production
Paranoia 1.0 was an international co-production, and was shot entirely in Bucharest, Romania. It premiered in competition at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival under its original title (One Point O).
The programming code seen in the film is from Viralator 0.9.
Similar Movies
Jeremy Sisto appears in Paranoia 10 and Population 436. Lance Henriksen appears in Paranoia 10 and Antibody. Cypher (2002). Lance Henriksen appears in Paranoia 10 and Cyrus. Eden Log (2007).
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References
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