Friend Request (2016)
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
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To me, this movie is perfection.
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
Don't Believe the Hype
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
I think I should begin this post with how I even came across this movie.I went to see Unfriended: Dark Web in the theater--terrible movie. I found out from a review of that terrible movie that it was actually a sequel to Unfriended and that Unfriended was better. OK. Let me watch the first movie in the series, maybe I'll like it. In my Netflix search for Unfriended, Friend Request came up. Sure, I'll watch Friend Request. Friend Request was definitely better. The main character, Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey), is a nice popular girl on campus and has well over 800 Facebook friends (bleh). Sorry, that was me throwing up at the thought of Facebook "friends". She's approached by a goth-looking introvert named Marina (Liesl Ahlers) who'd like to be friended on Facebook by the effervescent Laura. Laura complies and shortly finds out that Marina might not be the sanest girl to friend in any context--even cyber-friending.The movie was "when the paranormal infiltrates tech". This is nothing new but this is social media based. Ultimately, this movie is about young, pretty, nubile college students being killed--you know, like most scary movies. There are a few jump scares and then there is the shocking. The value in the movie is the creativity and creepiness of the few specters shown as well as the mode of death of those who were killed. Some of the deaths were lame and others were cool (in a horror movie way). Considering that most scary movies are awful I'd say that overall this was OK.
Starts off intriguing then after that it slowly bores you to death where you don't realy care how it ends. The frustrating thing is. 20 minutes in and you think you have a decent film. But thats when it goes flat as a pancake.
Good thing I don't go based of reviews only. It was decent.
Extremely long and boring saga mixing in typical ingredients, freaky girl, social media, somehow witchcraft. There is no payoff in the end. I don't know if there was some morality play in the screenwriters mind but it was done poorly with no good scares or kills.