Friend Request
2016 · Movie · R · 92 min · ★ 5.6 · 24% critics
A popular college student who lives on social media accepts a friend request from a lonely classmate. When the new connection turns intense and unsettling, cutting ties only makes things worse, pulling her and her friends into a frightening chain of online threats and supernatural trouble.
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Details
- Original title
- Unfriend
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-01-07
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Critic score
- 24/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 (1,323 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a social-media horror with some creepy scenes and easy-to-follow thrills, similar in vibe to Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin; Not for you if you hate predictable plots or want truly intense scares.
Pros: creepy moments; a few jump scares; social media hook | Cons: predictable story; thin characters; uneven acting
Themes
- college
- internet
- vengeful ghost
- social network
- social outcast
- young adult
- college student
Cast & crew
Alycia Debnam-Carey
as Laura
Connor Paolo
as Kobe
William Moseley
as Tyler
Brit Morgan
as Olivia
Brooke Markham
as Isabel
Sean Marquette
as Gustavo
Liesl Ahlers
as Marina
Nicholas Pauling
as Officer Dempsey
Shashawnee Hall
as Det. Cameron
Susan Danford
as Caroline
Directed by Simon Verhoeven