I don't know why, but I actually liked this, the whole "skype-desktop" thing worked for me, it was original. And I actually got scared at one time which never happens to me while watching horror movies, and I've watched some that are considered "the best ones". The last seconds were kinda unnecessary though.
It's refreshing to see an original storyline for this genre.
A unique, worth watching movie. It wasn't very scary but it was definitely creepy and the plot was engaging. Really deserved better ratings.
As others have said, the concept is original and well-executed. If you see this movie as a social commentary on millenials, it's excellent; but as a horror flick it lacks in some parts. I think the death scenes should have been way gorier (and possibly longer?) for the whole thing to work perfectly. Overall I loved it, though.
It was way better than I expected. When I first saw the entire movie was gonna be "skype" based I thought it was gonna be really boring, but I was wrong.
Different from all types of horror movies that are being released right now. I truly, truly enjoyed it.
So i watched and i kind a like it ... actually it was really good for me one of the best ones ! One of the reasons is that it has a new scenario , the skype thing it´s awesome , has scary parts ... The others scary movies are all the same thing ( like this ghosting movie ) they have a house , family hunted ... but i like it but one thing that i dont understand is why it has a low rating ? -_- The movie has a awesome story it´s different so i dont know :p (Sorry about the bad english but i´m not american or british :p)
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked Unfriended! The most interesting thing is that the movie doesn't use fake hollwood effects but the whole movie really takes place on the desktop of Blaires computer - I found that unique and exciting and it worked well for me! Also some pretty good tensions there :)
Hm, something new, and it totally worth to watch. .
Refreshing is definitely the word for this flick. The influence of internet and social media has been all around recent movies, but the desktop/Skype cam was new (at least for me), and the execution was great. There was tension and suspense and I was hooked. Not at all a masterpiece, but excellent entertainment!
The most original horror movie ever
This film is really awesome...
The only thing I would of changed was the whole ghost thing... could of just left it being some sort of cyber bully group.. but overall was a good film and I enjoyed it.
The movie was pretty good, the desktop PoV was a very original one, the cast did a good job, there is not much to change, maybe shorten a couple of sequences at the mid that where a bit too long and ruined the mood for me, and the last 5 secs too. If not for the few details id give it a 10/10 indie horror score.
I've watched this because I was bored and it ran on television, and I remembered that I've seen the trailer for the second movie and that was so bad (but had an interesting idea), that I thought: Why not watch this?
And to get this out the way upfront: I hate found footage movies and this is best categorized as found footage. Also it is a low budget movie, by an unknown georgian-russian director with hardly any experience. The idea is pretty simple: film just the screen of one of the participants of a group skype call:
A group of teenager meet for a group skype call, which accidentally takes place at the anniversary of a suicide of one of their friends. Now, during the group chat our main protagonist gets messages from that dead girl, while some unknown person always joins the skype sessions. What was first thought of as a harmless prank by a troll seems to be the work of a skilled hacker targeting the group...
Easy premises, easy story. Does it work? Well, partly. I think the acting was okay, though the dialogues where partly way too much and too unbelievable. There are two scenes, that in my opinion where too overdone, totally overreaction and overacting. Also, some scenes where really boring and too long (all the time she starts searching something) - especially interesting: If she starts searching things, the chat automagically is mute, i.e. they stop talking? Really strange.
Also there are a few plot holes, like: why do they not use the smartphone to call each other, or to call help? Chatroulette, really? Why don't they simply turn of their computers all together, to get away, if they so desperately want to get away (of course, it wouldn't help the story and it wouldn't work for the found footage aspect - but it really makes you wonder...).
On the other hand I like the premises - it's something different to the classic camcorder or handycam shaky videos that you associate with found footage movies, and so I am not even that annoyed (I hate the constant shaky cam, the "selfi" parts where the camera operator turns the camera around to talk into it, the pointing the camera on the feet to give the feel of some amateur filming, etc.). That's refreshing. Additionally - and this is really important to me, someone that works as a computer scientist - they did not do any absurd stuff with IT - everything that happens seems plausible, and I also liked that they did not invent apps and websites that resemble actual apps and sites, but used real sites and apps to do their movie. This goes as far as that videos they used in the movie are real videos they uploaded to YouTube - and they are still there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdblEqwoRg
Getting to the horror aspect of this movie: Well, I wasn't scared. At all. I do appreciate what they tried to do, but this did not work at all for me. There was also no gore, I feel like this is an "FSK 12" rating.
In the end I was struggling with a rating of 2 or 3. I went with 3, because 1) the director is rather unexperienced and unknown, 2) it's a low budget production and 3) it is a fresh and new idea for found footage, and the first time I actually enjoyed found footage. Even though the movie has a lot of problems I enjoyed it, and therefore I grant it 6/10 stars.
I'm inclined to agree with other commentators here: the movie is better than it's ratings suggest!
Tired of the found footage films. This is better than the Gallows at least. Unfriended is a little creepy and some-what disturbing even. I just hope there's not 20 sequels lol.
It is a new genre of horror and I think the end was awesome.
it was really good but i did not understand the ending!!!
rumour has it.. you have to die
After all the "it's better than it deserves to be" opinions I've seen I'm rather disappointed. https://trakt.tv/movies/the-den-2013 already had a very similar approach except that it also mixes in found footage. The reveal was very weak and not what I hoped for. Next time just pull the plug kiddos.
The online friends chatting in this movie are presented as flawed and despicable. This makes it easy to laugh when they are comically murdered by an Internet killer.
This paints a very accurate picture of how many people use (or more accurately misuse) different social media apps and tools. Whether or not they deserve their fates is up to the viewer to decide, but I was impressed by the way that the director told the story. The entire movie never strays from the Macbook screen of the main character. Everything that happens is relayed from texts, emails, chat rooms and videos. It's really ingenious. It sounds boring but it's really creative. There are frozen apps, pix-elated images, and all sorts of other glitches that are commonplace when using social media and they are all used together to tell this story.
You'll have to suspend your disbelief that anyone could control the online experiences of a half dozen people as the hacker of this movie does. It's impossible of course, unless it's related to a supernatural entity, right?
Beware of a stupid ending.
to quote a friend of mine.
Absolute garbage. Six scumbags shout at each other on skype for an hour.
-infinity/10
The only interesting thing about this movie is how they made it all from a macbook screen POV. All the rest is terrbile, script, acting, fxs...
Definitely worth watching, not sure why it was rated so low :/
I didn't know what to expect from this movie. This was supposed to be a horror movie but when all I'm doing is looking at someone's "computer screen" it just doesn't come off as scary. However, I thought it was an interesting take on high school relationship/ friendships in a reality TV sort of way. In the end I hope no one tries this again...my 2 cents.
First time I rate a movie here.
Ok it's an original movie but it's sooo boring and repetitive. I gave only 1.
It was a new idea, and I am an avid fan of the found-footage genre, so obviously I was very intrigued. I might have set my hopes too high. Can't say I hated it, though.
ok guys, just shut down the PC.
I actually found this to be far better than I was expecting. Really creepy and entertaining. For those who have never seen this, but love dark psychological terror-type films, I highly recommend this. It's part psychological terror and part supernatural horror and the combination just really worked for me. Note, however, that if you've never seen this, you need to be aware of one major issue: This was produced in 2013 (maybe 2014?) and because "streaming" technology back then wasn't quite as "streaming" as it is now, you may get frustrated at the depiction of technology as it was back in the day: buffering, glitching, connections dropping, etc...but hey, that's how technology worked 10-12 years ago. It was "good", yes, but it was still improving (and still is today). Also note that the entire film - the ENTIRE FILM - is a webcam/group chat session; there is no "live" interaction between the characters. (On a humorous note, I kept wanting to go to "full screen" mode because their chat session wasn't in Full Screen, and it was driving me nuts. LOL) If you're aware of those two things (the older glitchy technology and the "chat session" setting of the film) I think it helps with enjoying the film. This was the first time I'd ever watched it and I was ignorant of those two things so I wasn't really sure about it... especially when the opening credits of the movie started "buffering", causing me to wonder if the streaming site was having issues. The acting didn't have to be super top-notch because, again, there was no real interaction; it was a group chat setting for the entire film, but the cast DID carry their roles really well, I thought. Very little in the way of soundtrack, either, as most of the film was centered around a chat session and it didn't call for a lot of background music/effects. Overall, I was very pleasantly surprised with this and especially at only 82 minutes, it was definitely worth sitting through at least once.
This movie should come with a warning. It's not the most gruesome movie but nowhere does it give off the indication that this is a paranormal story and if you are like me you might've seen the second Unfriended movie first (Dark Web, which is about hackers NOT the ghost of a teenage girl).
By the time I realized what I was watching it was too late. Even halfway through I thought there could be more happening in between the glitches and just off screen from the tiny laptop screens we saw.
This dude put his hand in a blender but everything happened so fast and with so many glitches I thought 'maybe someone is forcing him'. The guy that shot himself 'maybe something happened on his screen that made him do it?' Wishful thinking on the second one but then this girl put a curling iron in her mouth and I knew 'O crap... it's what I think it is' and by then everything else happens in hyper-speed and I'm hoping for a explanation that is going to help me sleep at night. It doesn't. It gets worse in the last second of the movie where a ghost/demon like version of Laura jumps at you.
I don't like paranormal films. I hate them. If I had known that was what I was going into I would have never watched it. That being said... the actors... not the best. The tension.. definitely good (it had me at the edge of my seat start to finish), the characters are all vain, selfish bullies that to be honest... had it coming... shouldn't have messed with this particular vengeful girl. Watch Dark Web instead... it was so much better.
Shot in first person perspective, Unfriended is disappointing horror film that’s rather convoluted. While video chatting online a group of friends are stalked by a mysterious caller who claims to be a classmate of theirs who was a cyber bullying victim that committed suicide and is seeking revenge. The storytelling is quite innovative and can be engrossing at times, but after a while it gets monotonous as the screen user logs on and off, types messages, and opens and closes various windows. Additionally, the acting is pretty amateurish, and none of them have any charisma. Unfriended has a few tense moments and some intrigue, but it fails to deliver any real scares.
This movie is absolute garbage.
I watched Unfriended Dark Web before watching this one. If I watched this first I wouldn't have bothered with Dark Web. Which would be a shame cause that's actually a decent movie. Unlike this. None of the characters are likeable.
Does 'muricans have THAT shitty internet connection?
Terrible and annoying movie..
It's weak as for the movie from 2014. If it was made at least few years earlier in the beginning of all that Skype, messengers, etc. era it would be more scary and convincing.
In a world were we have to beg for something interesting when it comes to horror this is a movie that was better / more interesting than it ratings let me belive before watching. Its decent and enjoyable, just not super duper scary.
Unfriended is so far the best comedy of the year. I mean how can anyone watch this movie and take it seriously. It's just a bunch of stupid teenage's that are to stupid to leave their Skype chat when some one is trying to hack them. You know, turn off your computer or quickly report them, that's what most people would do.
The character's in the movie are all the cliche stereotypes that it's really hard to care for them when I couldn't care less if they made it out life or not. Oh and another thing the deaths in the movie are too funny to put into words. How can anyone find a fat kid getting attack by some unknown spirit and then puts his own hand in a blender while he makes a funny noise, then puts his chin in as well. Oh my freaking god I laughed my ass off when that scene happened and it's in the trailer for the movie. I know a lot of you think I'm sick for laughing at stuff like that and normally I'm the kind of guy who doesn't laugh at those stuff, but you got to see the movie yourself to understand what I'm saying.
The acting wasn't that great, the story I got to admit is very interesting and kind of creepy when you think about it but even that get's overshadowed by it's hilarious sick sense of humor.
I know people want a full detail review that I always do, but not for this one as there's nothing there to think deep about and really go into detail. Some people may go into deep detail and might find something worth talking about, I did that but couldn't find anything. Maybe these a better movie hidden is this sh*t movie. Agree or disagree, this is my open honest review and what I personal think of the film and it's modern day horror ark. I didn't find it scary.
So we're watching a girl's desktop for more than an hour all the meanwhile listening to how she and her friends are screaming at their computers. Great idea, bad execution (no pun intended). The only reason I finished this movie... is because I started it.
This movie does deserve a trophy, trophy for visualisation of the worst collection of internet connections.
Ayee I really liked this. I got so scared, the whole laptop thing really freaked me out, watching this home alone in my bedroom at night, minimal lighting and oh gosh. I was geniuenly at the edge of my seat so many times. I'm constantly on my laptop, so this got almost too real for me. I didn't think it would be this interesting, but it's one of my favorites that I've watched this year.
Filme muito bom ! Veio para revolucionar o gênero terror !
I actually liked it, it scared the crap out of me!
Shout by KrisBlockedParent2015-07-29T22:14:53Z
Have to say. The movie is better than i expected and is better than the ratings it got. The screencast was new and very appealing. Wont say its really scary but it i was kinda in the zone while watching. somehow i was hooked to the screen. Defently worth a watch.