After a group of teenagers form an online chatroom but unfortunately an unknown person joins up claiming the account of one of their dead friends and that marked the beginning of a mysterious supernatural force haunting the friends.
I'll admit the film held my attention but I left the theater unsatisfied, which I think will be a common reaction among those not within the demographic niche for which the production was mounted.
Perhaps director Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves intended to create a Social Media "Scream" and a commentary on cyber-bullying, but "Unfriended" comes across as disdainful of millennials.
LarsenOnFilm
August 18, 2016
...takes seemingly benign, everyday technology and turns it into a vehicle for menace.
Unfriended - previously titled Cybernatural and Offline before that - is the latest cyber variation of the tireless found-footage horror subgenre which fails to bring anything new or novel to the table.
