While videochatting one night with her boyfriend, Mitch, Blaire finds herself once again partaking in the typical sexual teasing that is a part of any high school romance. Soon the couple find themselves interrupted by their raucous group of friends via vdeo chat, with the six high school friends engaging in a round of high school gossip. Strangely enough, the six friends soon have a mysterious stranger join their video chat, with Blaire also receiving direct facebook messages from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year prior. At first the friends write this off as some sick, twisted prank, but when the mysterious presence starts revealing dark secrets about the group, they soon find out they might be in a battle for their lives. Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended takes a very silly premise and crafts it into an intricate supernatural horror film, which is certainly more likely to appeal to younger generations where technology is or was a major aspect of their social experience. What's interesting about this found footage film is it isn't through a camrea but through the eyes of a character, in Blaire, who uses skype, gmail, spotify, and facebook to communicate with her friends. While the film certainly is lowbrow in approach, Unfriended shows an impressive detail in its ability to capture the frustrations and freedoms of using online applications, being a fun nightmare of technology frustrations in its own right. These rigourous details are used to the film's advantage, with Unfriended creating an impressive amount of tension from a character alternating between various online applications that appear to be haunted by some dark force. While Unfriended is an angry diatribe about cyberbullying, but the way the film is able to capture the petty nature of high school social circles is what I found most entertaining. Featuring a silly premise that is made with conviction, Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended is an exploitative supernatural horror film told completely through a computer screen.
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