It seems Hollywood finally has found a way of getting teens offline and in line. Just make a movie like Unfriended, where the entire 82-minute running time takes place in front of a computer screen. Blumhouse has done it again. As I say in my video
This Week's Movies | April 17, 2015. The New York Times film critics review “Child 44,” “Alex of Venice” and “Unfriended.” By Robin Lindsay on Publish Date April 16, 2015. Photo by Larry Horricks/Lionsgate/Summit
If you give a teen an inch, he'll make a meme — that's why the trailer for social-media-horror film Unfriended, out Friday, was the perfect platform for an internet-style riff. Here's the scene: Our crew of young adults has just realized they aren't
Unfriended is a horror movie that takes place entirely on a laptop screen, and it uses a visual language that will be most familiar to young viewers who practically lives their lives online already.
☆½ “Unfriended” (R) “… (Levan) Gabriadze gives a relatively ho-hum revenge plot an extra jolt by presenting it entirely in one take, in the form of a multitasking Skype session between six friends who are maliciously threatened by a mysterious