Directed by Levan Gabriadze, Unfriended is a silicone-age terrorizer involving a pack of telegenic high schoolers and one very upset ghost who used to be a member of the clique

More funny than scary, “Unfriended” is less about its putative subject of cyber-bullying than Hollywood finding ways to update supernatural horror film...

Social media strikes back in this grisly teen horror

A film that takes place entirely within a computer screen has its moments but ultimately isn’t worth emailing home about

Unfriended (15) dir:Levan Gabriadze The revolution in gaming and computing has affected cinema in many ways, from narrative formats and editing styles to the threat (real or exaggerated) posed to the industry by illegal downloading. One problem rarely discussed, though, is how to represent on film the uncinematic activity that consumes so much of modern life and leisure. Just

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For a solid half-hour, the real-time horror film "Unfriended" feels breathlessly new as a storytelling portal, fixed as it is on the active computer screen of teenager Blaire (Shelley Hennig) as she webchats and flirts with boyfriend Mitch (Moses Storm), checks Facebook, IMs and scores her bedroom life from her playlist.

Scary and subversive, Unfriended is the first time our online lives have been successfully represented on the big screen – where it has to be seen

Six loathsome bullies get what's coming to them.

The extremely tense Unfriended is clever and even poignant, says Charlotte O'Sullivan, but it's the kind of film many will end up downloading