Candidate #15
UNFRIENDED
(July 2014)
As with Nacho Vigalondo's Open Windows, Unfriended takes place entirely on a computer screen, this time, belonging to one Blaire Lily (Shelley Hennig, currently on MTV's Teen Wolf).
As with Nacho Vigalondo's Open Windows, Unfriended takes place entirely on a computer screen, this time, belonging to one Blaire Lily (Shelley Hennig, currently on MTV's Teen Wolf).
But
while Vigalondo’s effort gets wildly ambitious as it unspools, Unfriended chooses to keep its narrative
space controlled, and ultimately, it’s this choice that allows it to keep a
tight focus on the horror movie shenanigans that ensue.
Directed
by Leo Gabriadze from a script by Nelson Greaves, Unfriended has some heavy producing hitters in the forms of Timur
Bekmambetov and Jason Blum.
It’s
also an interesting double bill with fellow ¡Qué horror! 2015
candidate, Some Kind of Hate, sharing
some of its thematic concerns like the casually cruel emotional violence the
youth can so callowly and callously inflict on each other.
(Unfriended Netherlands OS courtesy of
impawards.com.)
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