Unfriended, 2015 - ★★★

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This movie is crazy to me. I saw a trailer and was super hyped. Then the hype got less cause I realised I shouldn't expect too much. So my expectations went down to where I almost didn't go.

Now, it wasn't as good as I hoped but also not as bad as I expected. It was just pretty mediocre.

One year after Laura Barns kills herself, some friends are skyping together as Lauras old Skype account logs into the conversation. And then one after the other dies.

First the good things. The whole movie is set on one computer, the Max of the main girl. We see it like if she was filming her desktop the whole time. The idea in a whole was pretty good, everything plays out on the Mac, she goes to different websites like facebook, youtube and even some weird forums that everyone finds but no one seems to use. And it's set up well, she has a real userface, with bookmarks that a young girl her age would probably have.

Also the moral of the story is a good one: Mobbing, especially Cybermobbing in this day and age, sucks. You should not do it. Not at all.

Lastly, some of the ideas of the "ghost" are pretty good, like the drinking game they are playing or the printing scene.

But now there is a big but.

After a while it got pretty boring. There were many parts that went on too long. Also the girls chatting was pretty annoying.
And I don't even want to start with all the faults. I use skype, I use facebook, I don't use iMessenger but I don't think it deletes the last few messages. There are so many little faults that bug me as a person who uses that stuff more than they probably should. But I really got annoyed.
There aren't many jump scares (luckily) but some of them were really annoying where I just wanted to get angry at the director.

Also, they decided to change what could have been a great moral ending into a cheap jump scare which probably annoyed me the most.

I rate this movie with 3 out of 5 stars, it's an interesting concept but could have gone better. Another entry into the skype horror films that was, in my opinion, done better is one of the segments in V/H/S, if you liked Unfriended, you should watch it.