Review of Unfriended (2014) by Ydnar4 — 27 Jul 2015

Unfriended is directed by Levan Gabriadze and stars Heather Sossaman, Moses Storm and Renee Olstead. The film revolves around six friends who socialize in an online chat room together and mysterious things begin to occur when an account belonging to a dead girl joins their chat.

This film debuted at the Fantasia Festival last year and got a wide release this spring. I like the premise of Unfriended, the internet can be a scary thing and many people really never think about how dangerous it can really be.

The whole film takes part on the computer screen of Blaire Lilly (Sossaman) so if Blaire searches something on Google or checks her Facebook we get to see it all and that’s an interesting way to shoot a film, but the film quickly starts to take on the characteristics of other horror movies with all these weird events occurring without any real reason.

I thought the young cast did very well to start the film but I think you could begin to see cracks as the film went on. I like the way that tension builds up throughout the movie and it helped to keep me interested.

The story got a little too crazy and when the tension builds up more and more the acting weakens. You will find out that everyone in this chat room is a terrible person and they are so awful that they are no longer believable.

Unfriended is a film that is original enough that it can be enjoyed despite having a lack of scares. I’d rather watch this than another found footage movie.