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A group of online chat room friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend. Unfriended unfolds over a teenager';;;;;;s computer screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure who seeks vengeance for a shaming video that led a vicious bully to kill herself a year earlier.
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.
April 18, 2015
LarsenOnFilm
...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.