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this movie is very good. You should watch it, the music and composition are well matched

"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.

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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 became one of my favorite movies ever! Amazing! Great story, and amazing acting! I realized not very many people like this. I guess I'm just really naive or something.

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

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

I can't say I was ever really impressed with this movie, but it's no where near the worst. A few of the scares land and the film had an idea though it pretty much failed in execution. The worst part are the two cops almost sunk this movie but in the end it's just a meh. C-

Friend Request is boring as tin foil. Full of nothing but internet fails. Like that cat scare. I don't see that's exciting about Friend Request, it's not good.

Having 800 friends on the list, but not able to handle one particular. This is a spin-off of the 2014 film 'Unfriended'. So there's no comparison between them But you can't stop people doing that, particularly saying which version they liked the most. For me, I enjoyed the other one which was a bit different than usual in the same themed films. This one was not a single day event based film. It was stretched and developed, especially for the film characters to give more depth in the storytelling. A brief flashback in the beginning, and then comes back to the present with twist and turns in the tale. Largely based on facebook culture of the youngsters and the filmmakers applied the same old horror film formula to the rest. For some viewers it will work, particularly facebook fans, I guess. But this was an average film. Everything was already seen before in different film and you are only seeing it which is associated with social media, that's all. A German film, but made in English language and cast. The actors were decent, but in some case I was not impressed. There were many flaws, but surely they all can be explained where the film did not do that exactly as it should have even stretched further. That's the point, for being too casual, so the film looked like one of those B category horror-thriller from the past. For watching it once, okay. That includes if you have seen the 2014 film or not, because it is completely different and not fresh enough to impress us. 4/10

What is this. I'd watch Nut Job 2 over this boring, cringey jab at teenagers!! Awful visuals, terrible acting, laughable story, the only thing thats GOOD about it is thats its not The Emoji Movie! 0/10.

This is yet another film based on social media and the law of diminishing returns is in full effect. A college student (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is stalked by a creepy outcast (Liesl Ahlers). After the loser is rejected, the popular girl starts losing her friends in dull and somewhat confusing ways. The predictable plot is just an updated version of the haunted curse genre. The addition of Facebook only makes it relevant to boomers..haven't the kids moved on to Instagram and Snapchat and ones I haven't even heard of? There's nothing especially disturbing or original about the evil beings and the film is never scary or even tense. This pitiful attempt at pandering to the youth crowd should be "unfriended" by all ticket buyers.

This was a pretty good movie, I thought. A very sweet young woman, Laura, befriends a strange girl who is obviously very lonely. But, this girl, Ma Rina, wants a bigger friendship than Laura is willing to give. After Laura becomes Ma Rina one and only friend on Facebook, Ma Rina can now follow Laura's every move. And, Ma Rina now considers herself to be among Laura's friends and when she sees she has been left out of Laura's birthday celebration, thngs start to get ugly. It had some pretty good screams and scares. I thought it was a pretty decent movie.

Friend Request is a ridiculously dumb horror bait that somehow manages to make Unfriended look as if it could easily be converted to become the best high-quality game on the Nintendo Switch. By that, I mean this dumb horror bait-to-the-eye makes Unfriended, another similar horror bait, look as if it could easily earn a ten out of ten just by watching it. That's literally saying too much especially if I'm comparing a dumb horror bait with another similar premise.