Unfriended

A group of high school friends find themselves tormented by a strange online presence after the suicide death of their acquaintance Laura (Heather Sossaman). Bent on evil, this supernatural presence has a plan of its own, now surviving their Skype chat with each other will be a challenge. Ready to play a game?unfriended Basically constructed as a first person laptop screen viewing, props to the director and writer (Levan Gabriadze and Nelson Graves) for thinking out of the box and creating something that probably feels quite familiar to the millennial generation, or anyone who’s spent an evening wrestling with their computer and a malaligned Skype call. And, while the intention of creating a film that showcases cyber bullying is appreciated. The laughable dialogue and overall story arc falls shy of real terror once we get going; had we been induced into the horror trance in just a slightly different way and awoken with a slightly more poignant finish some real tension might have prevailed. In all evil there must be some good, and vice versa, without that counterbalance we’re left with just one dimension and a less interesting story. Interesting exercise in cinema, but more of a rental or skip. Unfriended is rated R.