‘Unfriended’ is a spooky ghost story parable that will (only) be fun for those who grew up in the era of the online social jungle.
In Unfriended, a young teenage girl named Laura Barnes (Heather Sossaman) commits a violent and public suicide, after an embarrassing video posted online turned her into a social pariah. Sometime after that, Laura’s “old friends” like good-girl Blaire (Shelley Hennig), hot-head rich kid Adam (Will Peltz), airhead Jess (Renee Olstead), mean girl Val (Courtney Halverson), tech-geek Ken (Jacob Mysocki) and nice-guy Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm) all gather for their nightly Skype social circling. Only on this particular night, they find a mysterious digital intruder in their midst.
Touting itself as the ghost of Laura Barnes, the digital “troll” soon begins to exert terrifying supernatural powers over the kids, via their …
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