Unfriended (2014)
Rated R
Starring Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halvorsen, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Will Peltz, Renee Olstead, Jacob Wysocki
Directed by Levan Gabriadze
The Story:
On the anniversary of Laura's (Sossaman) death, a group of her friends are video chatting online when they are joined by someone pranking them using her account. Only it's not someone pranking them, it's Laura, and she's back from the dead to get her cyber-revenge!
So forgive me if this movie is redundant or derivative from any other horror movie of the "you watch it and you die" genre.
I haven't seen many, if any of them, but I know they exist.
This film is very simple in the execution. It is literally shot from the point of view of the computer being used by Val (Halvorsen) as she navigates multiple browser windows at once trying to figure out who the mysterious hacker is.
No big names, clearly no big budget.
Just enough suspense to keep you interested until the final frame.
As each of the teens reveals their duplicity in Laura's death, they are met with their final fate.
Most are cut away, leaving your brain to provide you the gruesome details of their ultimate demise, but you're teased with enough to know how to finish the picture.
Nothing that reinvents the horror genre, but it keeps your interest, and that's better than being bored...
to death!
:)
Final Grade: C+ / B- range
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