2016 ‘Unfriend’ Directed by Simon Verhoeven
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
fuckkkk i (unironically! genuinely!) love really shitty/tone deaf/offensive depictions of youth/internet culture and mental illness!!
after the krazy girl hangs and sets fire to herself on camera and posts it to her #victim 's fakebook account, the final girl goes to a kewl tattoed hacker boy she knows for help and her actual boyfriend is like "do i have to worry about u seeing him in his dorm room!!" yes now is the time to get possessive and paternalistic about ur girl, dude! right when she's being cyberstalked by a spooky witch ghost is when you need to assert your ownership over your gf because she talked to a male friend aslkghaklhgkasg
i'm pretty sure undergrads arent even on facebook…
Facebook really needs to examine its security protocols and quit acting like it doesn't possess extreme vulnerability to the threat of lonely mentally-ill witches hacking Facebook using witchcode and suicide rituals in order to get revenge upon those they are unsuccessfully cyberstalking because this is clearly going to be an even larger issue than it is today if FB does not immediately employ a staff of counter-hexers to investigate and witch-proof its site. Everyone could end up friendless!
As far as sensitivity towards witches, the lonely, those suffering from mental illness (esp. in regards toward trichotillomania which can be a horrible condition to deal with) goes, Friend Request earns its F grade for keeps, yet it is such a dark…
While Friend Request was Germany's answer to the popularity of Unfriended, I sort of preferred this to the successful 2014 film??
Friend Request is playing into both the modern witch wave and the anxiety of social media users, sure, it's far from an instant classic, but I like to think of it as a relic of 2016, if we bury it for long enough, in 2030 someone will unearth this time capsule of a film and laugh at us for being so fucking ridiculous.
"Sometimes she would just stare at the screen for hours." *checks time at the bottom right corner of monitor, laughs nervously*
Maybe it all boils down to the fact that I had incredibly low expectations going…
the only thing scary about this film is that they expect us to believe that college kids still use facebook in 2016
The most interesting thing about this movie might be the accusation that Mark Zuckerberg tried to have it removed from theaters after denouncing it.
it was surprisingly not even bad.. i thought it was gonna suck but i was scared basically the whole time and it even had a good ending. plus alycia is hot so whatever
While casually sitting through Hurricane Florence, I decide it’s the perfect opportunity to turn on some Netflix. I search for a bit and I see this film, “Friend Request.” Although I have heard of this movie, I really haven’t heard anything about it; so I decide to watch it, and boy, was I in for a treat.. NOT. This was horrendous; the premise of this movie was so dumb, the script, the god awful cgi, and the corny ass jump scares. The occasional rain drop against my window was scarier than this movie.
1 out of 10.
Social Media popular and attractive Laura friends weirdo witch (a sexy goth gal) w/o any friends (like most foxy goth girls), so all her friends end up dying and everyone else unfriends her. So the
moral of Friend Request is that when dealing with social outcast, to quote Homer Simpson,is to never try. My main issue with Friend Request is that the death scenes are severely lacking (aka they fuckin' suck, mostly revolving around killer cgi bees and didn't we learn anything from the WickerMan remake or Green Inferno that fake bees are bad?), and without the scares (the disposable cast is really disposable) you gotta have sufficient kill scenes (I mean what's the point of having an R rating…
Recently, I had a friend request from some dude on fb that might have played sportsball w/me in hs (actually none of the sports I played involved balls (except wrestling...queue rim shot), so , so I checked out his profile, and the last two posts were pf the anti-Mcain and anti-Biden variety memes, so I accepted his friend request. And it turns out that he's a (it's gotta be parody but it's not) ultra right Trumpian follower (the type who would cast aspersions on McCain and Biden to own the libs). So blandly attractive brunette lead of Friend Request who is being haunted by a Friended then Unfriended witch, I feel your pain.
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