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Unfriended

Play trailer 2:30 Poster for Unfriended R Released Apr 17, 2015 1h 23m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they are suddenly joined by a user known only as "Billie227." Thinking it's just a technical glitch, the friends carry on their conversation... until Blaire begins receiving messages from someone claiming to be Laura Barns, a classmate who killed herself exactly one year prior. As Blaire tries to expose Billie's identity, her friends are forced to confront their darkest secrets and lies.
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Unfriended subverts found-footage horror clichés to deliver a surprisingly scary entry in the teen slasher genre with a technological twist.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ABC News (Australia) The centrality of the laptop screen in Unfriended has been identified by some critics as a new or experimental take on found footage horror, but this is not the first film to use this idea. Aug 27, 2018 Full Review Alex Abad-Santos Vox As silly as the premise might sound, Unfriended is actually a surprisingly clever movie. It's far smarter and meaner than it looks. Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 14, 2015 Full Review Alison Willmore BuzzFeed News It's a premise that seems ridiculous until you start to realize it might actually be brilliant, or at least charmingly clever. Nov 10, 2015 Full Review Paul Lê Bloody Disgusting An effective and ambitious interpretation of what it means to grow up with and live on the internet. Rated: 4/5 Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Elisa Guimarães Collider At first, they assume that someone is using Laura’s profile to prank them, but things soon become much eerier when this unknown entity takes control of their computers and traps them in a death game. Feb 1, 2024 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Meant as an attack on cyberbullying, this body count movie loses any hope of a meaningful social commentary just around the time a possessed blender frappés a teen. Rated: 1/4 Jun 21, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Millie R A laptop screen filled with equally unlikeable characters who have all done wrong and won't own up to it even with lives on the line - I liked the idea of this but it could've been executed way better. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review Andrew F Unfortunately I can't give this a zero as this is honestly the worst movie I've ever paid to see. Static screen full of unlikeable and uncharacteristic characters full of actors who can't act working from a terrible script that called for some improvised lines. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Audience Member I was always curious about watching this movie since the plot seemed unique and creative with our society now being in an highly technological internet age. Shelley Hennig specifically gave a really good performance and throughout this movie’s run time, I was hooked and interested. What a dark and creepy premise/story and what a way to go about it. Twists and reveals throughout really kept me on my toes. Sure there are some very impractical things and some things that don’t make much sense at all, but it is a movie after all and it is a bit more explainable for what the film has you believe with its plot devices by the end. This movie delivered with how I expected it to! Very underrated indeed! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/28/24 Full Review Jerry T "UNFRIEND" I was hoping for a more offbeat story, but in the end the main character turned out to be responsible for her friend's death. #2 Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Audience Member This is a very simple movie to it's benefit, and it actually has a solid emotional story to it. Unfriended does follow a lot of tropes within horror, but to me it doesn't feel tacky because it's actually got this core story with depth to it and has good performers who also have good chemistry together. So it becomes rather believable, and also intriguing due to the way the movie is made because you can see the lead characters thought process as we follow her actions on the computer screen. A fun experience, but simultaneously a sad movie. I enjoy revisiting Unfriended from time to time. Thank you. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/12/24 Full Review Twiggy H Awful film - not worth a watch. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/23/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they are suddenly joined by a user known only as "Billie227." Thinking it's just a technical glitch, the friends carry on their conversation... until Blaire begins receiving messages from someone claiming to be Laura Barns, a classmate who killed herself exactly one year prior. As Blaire tries to expose Billie's identity, her friends are forced to confront their darkest secrets and lies.
Director
Levan Gabriadze
Producer
Timur Bekmambetov, Nelson Greaves
Screenwriter
Nelson Greaves
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Production Co
Bazelevs Production
Rating
R (Pervasive Language|Drug and Alcohol Use by Teens|Some Sexuality|Violent Content)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 17, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 26, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$32.4M
Runtime
1h 23m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, Datasat
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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