Category: Movies
Brand: Universal Studios
Item Page Download URL : Download MOVIE File
Rating : 2.7
Buyer Review : 78
Description :
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.
Review :
Watch it on a computer for better immersion!
I thought this movie was excellent! A lot of people will claim this is another "found footage" film, but it's more than that. In the world of complete and utter "social" takeover, I found this movie to be very entertaining. Also, I was watching it on my MAC computer, further enveloping myself into the world in which to movie takes place. There were a couple times when an alert of a chime would ring and I kept checking my notifications because I thought they were for me. Really felt like I was more involved than simply just being a viewer.
The "story" involves five friends talking in real time over Skype and Facebook messenger. It begins with just a hint of the back story. A high school girl by the name of Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman) committed suicide after an embarrassing video surfaced online. Ironically, someone ALSO posted the video of her taking her own life. Blaire (Shelley Hennig) and Mitch (Moses Storm) are talking over Skype discussing...
Hit the delete button and save yourself from this virus
Terrible movie! Bad acting which was expected, miserable writing also to be expected, and zero direction which makes sense when you plop down "actors" in front of computers and film everything with the overused shaky cam effect. The found footage style is growing very tiresome in Hollywood and now a large portion of "horror" films are using it to cut costs and make super low budget movies. You can still make a successful low budget horror film without using this boring, cheap filming style. Just look at the success of Saw, but then even that had a creative director and a nice twist ending in a decent enough script.
Unfriended, is nowhere near as creative nor suspenseful, it lacks both as well as depth. There are so many missing pieces in this train wreck. The premise could've worked, unfortunately the film failed on so many levels. It was laughable, a movie that could be easily compared to the worst student film ever made and still only be marginally better...
Like! Old story in a new fashion
Unfriended tells the old tale of supernatural revenge but in a very original way. filmed in real-time (as far as I can tell) and is all shown on the screen of the main character, Blaire's Mac, it's like I was remote connected in throughout the whole movie.
Jumping from Skype to Facebook to Spotify to iMessage to Safari etc. constantly was quite frustrating to begin with but once I got used to this and the cyber bullying ghost story really kicked in, I started to become totally immersed with this setting and felt like I was actually there experiencing the "game" that Laura Barnes was playing online with her old "friends". The acting isn't the best but I think that actually adds to the realism as these are supposed to be just everyday teens at the end of the day. There's quite a few surprises and really chilling scenes (yet subtle in some cases). There's a couple of glaring mistakes I noticed (such as the characters saying it was the anniversary of Laura's...
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