Friend Request

It's the highest praise to describe Friend Request as "a hoot" — the kind of midnight movie best seen with a large crowd laughing and screaming along, offering words of advice or encouragement to the naive characters on screen.

Obvious and sometimes aggravating no doubt, but still effective in raising blood pressure given a backstory so instilled with old-school cultism.

It’s slickly made but shoddily scripted, with sub-reality TV dialogue...and a range of unengaged, soapy performances. There is some fun to be had from the loud and nasty death scenes though, which allow us the pleasure of seeing self-absorbed Facebook addicts get gruesomely murdered.

Sadly, Friend Request is not even the first movie to travel that harrowing Dead Girl Who Still Maintains an Active Facebook Presence road.

We might lament declining attention spans in general, but more chilling than anything in Friend Request is the idea that anyone’s whole attention could possibly be absorbed by so flimsy and forgettable a film, one that seems made with the sole aim of being perfectly adequate background noise for something else.

With no real suspense and little empathy, Friend Request devolves into your standard horror cast-killer time-killer. There are more frights in the trailers for upcoming Halloween horror films preceding this — “Jigsaw” and “Happy Death Day” among them.

An utterly idiotic movie that uses social media as a conduit for witchcraft and mayhem.

I liked this, but I don't know if I can recommend it to everyone. This is kind of a brain-off/past the time type film. Although I think Unfriended is better, I thought this horror flick did a decent job of tackling today's obsession with social media. Basic plot works with both a relatable protagonist and antagonist and a an effective ending. The kills are freaky enough. Like I said, the plot works, but there are moments where the dialogue can be better. The authorities are frustratingly dumb and illogical in reaction to the killings. I was surprised by the visuals. There are some pretty effective images. The acting isn't the best, which might be due to the director as there are cast members with experience on this.

This movie really makes you rethink adding the strange person no one talks to just to be nice. or how about accepting a request from someone you dont even know. I bet you wont do that after seeing this movie

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Bad movie with poor storyline, predictable jumpscares. Totally waste of time.

"Friend Request" is a German production. In Germany it is known as "Unfriend". "Unfriended" is known as "Unknown User". "Unfriended" definitely is the better movie of this subgenre.