A group of online chat room friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend.
Clever cybernatural thriller.
The all-Skype gimmick that drives this very modern horror is effective but you’ll need a high tolerance for teenage bullshit (and teenage Spotify playlists) to get through it.
Georgian-Russian director Leo Gabriadze – mentored by producer Timur Bekmambetov (the man behind Night Watch and Wanted), whose brainchild this is – succeeds in delivering something familiar and relatable to the digitally connected, and that's technically interesting. At least for now.
A tense poke into the dark extremes of social media.
Unfriended proves its viability as a cinematic storytelling device – and as a way of making gimmicky horror interesting again.
Levan Gabriadze’s low-budget Skype horror succeeds by saving its scares for the web-savvy.
The friends’ behaviour is not always plausible but tension and intrigue is well sustained as dark secrets emerge.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
RSS feed of Cinema reviews