"Unfriended" (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Unfriended (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     82 min
Rating:     Rated R for violent content, pervasive language, some sexuality, and drug and alcohol use - all involving teens
Official Site:     http://www.unfriendedmovie.com/
Production:
Genres:     Thriller, Horror
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:      Levan Gabriadze
Stars:        Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson

Unfriended (2015) Critic Review: While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3713166

Unfriended Movie Review By MDBReviews

Ghastliness fans, comprehensively talking, now respect obvious tricks and gaudy high ideas with suspicion through the years, as movie producers and, all the more regularly still, adroit makers have depleted each oddity of structure or structure in an offer to seize on the most recent pattern. So its with due alert that one methodologies Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended, which is charged as "told continuously, totally from a teenaged young lady's PC screen." A faintly urgent variety on the undeniably tired discovered footage slant barely sounds engaging. But, surprisingly, the encircling gadget demonstrates astute, significantly rather exquisite a proper vehicle for a work of brainpower and mind.

You might expect, given the restrictions of its computer-screen framing device, that Unfriended would make for a somewhat uncomfortable viewing experience, that the confines of layered windows and tabbed browsing would soon entrain a certain restlessness. But perhaps the most striking thing about the film is how utterly natural its presentation seems. We're already so accustomed to this sort of mediation, of course, that observing the world of the film through the familiar architecture of a MacBook feels almost reflexive. It's also an effective method of facilitating identification: We can easily imagine ourselves in the role of the protagonist for the simple reason that we can imagine ourselves moving that cursor or carrying out those keyboard commands. But this isn't an exercise in new-media theory, and Gabriadze, loosed of any pretensions, doesn't bother using this platform to rhetorize about the ubiquity of all this technology in our lives. Instead, the clutch of apps and programs and social networks of which the film makes extensive use are merely there, readily available and entirely mundane. It's a sort of studied nonchalance. The film regards this abundance of technology in much the same way we do every day: as so ordinary to be practically old hat.

Ok, yet it wouldn't be an account of teens and PCs in the event that it didn't draw in with the zeitgeist in some limit. Thus we turn to the story. The PC screen to which we're solely moored fits in with Blaire (Shelly Hennig), a prominent secondary school young lady who preferences to while away her nighttimes listening to Spotify while she Skypes with her oft-shirtless beau. One night their feature visit is barged in on by a few of their cohorts alongside a pictureless secret guest. It soon transpires that the guest being referred to is Laura Barnes, a previous companion of Blaire's who dedicated suicide after a humiliating feature became famous online, obviously back from the grave to take computerized retribution.

There's a tore from-the-features quality to the majority of this, however the intention isn't only to sensationalize; there are genuine, extremely significant contemporary tensions coursing through this story, giving the awfulness a provocative charge. More amazing still is the means by which viably Gabriadze outlines Laura's severe retribution: When the class film scene arrives, its in full compel, and the strictures of the confining gadget figure out how to intensify, as opposed to stifle, the effect of the stuns and panics. The outcome is a stunning thing—that uncommon type of blood and guts movie to create a contrivance and flawless it at the same tim

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