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Actress Katja Herbers stars in director Ivo van Aart’s crime horror film, ‘The Columnist.’
Actress Katja Herbers is taking matters into her own hands by fighting back against the people who are defaming her in the the upcoming Dutch horror movie, ‘The Columnist.’ The performer’s eponymous protagonist of Femke Boot has become so stressed out and consumed by the hate-filled messages she’s been receiving on social media that she decides to strike back against her attackers in real life.
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Donât mess with writers: Katja Herbers in Ivo van Aartâs âThe Columnist.âCredit.Film Movement
By Beatrice Loayza
The Columnist
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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A writer is thrown into the cyber snake pit when her op-ed criticizing Black Pete â a traditional Dutch Christmas character who typically appears in blackface â is published. Suddenly, swarms of disinhibited men inundate her Twitter account with death threats and misogynist nastiness. Oh, to be a woman online.
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Dutch satire plays with issues of internet decorum and freedom of speech
Adam Graham
Don t read the comments.
It s a lesson in self-preservation that media types have learned in the internet age when dealing with the angry vitriol that comes from comments sections and social media postings. In the witty Dutch satire The Columnist, a newspaper writer makes the mistake of reading her feedback, and goes on a murder spree to exact revenge on the readers voicing their ugly and dissenting views about her and her columns.
Katja Herbers is terrific as Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist and struggling author whose publisher is asking for chapters on her new book. She becomes obsessed with her online haters and when she discovers one of them is her neighbor he smiles to her face and waves from next door she pushes him off his rooftop and watches him plummet to his death. As a trophy, she takes a finger from him
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The Columnist, a writer is pushed to the brink of insanity by malicious internet trolls. (I’ve got no idea what that feels like. Nope, not one bit!). Look for the film this Friday (May 7th) via Virtual Cinema, VOD, and Digital. A DVD release will follow on May 11th.
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Synopsis:
In this darkly funny horror film, Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is a columnist and writer suffering from endless abusive posts and death threats on social media. Femke is obsessed by these hate-filled messages and spends every moment checking her Twitter feed. This obsession consumes her life and her work suffers as she fails to write her columns and novel. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shock