Set = April 12, 2014}} Unfriended (originally titled Cybernatural and Offline) is a 2014 American "found footage" film directed by Levan Gabriadze, written by Nelson Greaves and produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Greaves.
The film premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014, and at SXSW on March 13, 2015, and was officially released to theaters on April 17, 2015.
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with a rating on Rotten Tomatoes being 63% ("Fresh"), based on 163 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 59 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating that it has "mixed or average reviews".
A sequel, named Unfriended: Dark Web, was released on December 21, 2018.
Plot[]
An innocent nighttime Skype call with close friends turns deadly when they are joined by a user pretending to be a deceased classmate and former friend of theirs who committed suicide after being viciously cyberbullied in response to an embarrassing viral video of them at a party exactly one year earlier. This user forces them to play a dangerous game of "Never Have I Ever" in which they must face their darkest secrets and lies that show how dishonest, disloyal, and cowardly they are, all while the stalker seeks vengeance for their roles in their late classmate's death.
Sequel[]
Blumhouse Productions confirmed that there is a sequel in the works, called Unfriended: Dark Web, which is scheduled for 2018. The movie came out in the summer of 2018.
Soundtrack[]
- "Lost Cities" - Zoe Chatfield, Athena Demaille-Von Schmidt, Emily Gregonis
- "We On" - B. Cooper
- "Forever" - Rickie Page
- "How You Lie, Lie, Lie" - Connie Conway
- "Ghost In My Head" - Eldar Tagiev, Tommy Simpson, Tiffany Wan[1]
Trivia[]
- This movie is similar to the movie The Den, a 2013 film which has a similar style and plot. In this movie, a girl is on her MacBook, shown via a screencast on a social website called The Den, and her goal is to meet as many strangers as possible. However she begins a chat with someone who is brutally murdered live on the webcam, and is stalked and traumatized by the mysterious killer, and later hunted down by him. However, unlike Unfriended, some of the film takes place outside of the MacBook screen.
- All of the Facebook accounts shown in this film are actual Facebook accounts.
- There are hundreds of real products and websites in this film, including Facebook, YouTube, LiveLeak, Tumblr, Google, Gmail, ChatRoulette, Skype, Spotify, ICQ, Google Chrome, Mac OS X, and more.
- The "Unexplained Forums" website is a spoof of the website Unexplained Mysteries Forums.
- Unfriended was inspired by a real life experience Nelson Greaves had. He had received a spam email from an old friend, however, the friend in question had recently committed suicide. Greaves said "It was so emotionally troubling for me. It's such a simple thing but it made me stop and say, 'This is something out of a scary movie.'."
- In late 2017, a sequel was announced titled "Unfriended: Game Night" and would be a stand alone film, starting a completely new story. The tile was later changed to "Unfriended: Dark Web. It premiered on July 30, 2018
Cast[]
- Heather Sossaman as Laura Barns
- Courtney Halverson as Val Rommel
- Jacob Wysobski as Ken Smith
- Will Peltz as Adam Sewell
- Renee Olstead as Jess Felton
- Moses Jacob Storm as Mitch Roussel
- Shelley Hennig as Blaire Lily
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ Despite Bloodstreams Battles Online mostly using elements from the sequel, said track was reused as Matias' theme.
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