Friend Requests (released abroad as Unfriend ) is the German-language supernatural-psychological horror film of English 2016.
Video Friend Request
Plot
Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is one of the most popular students on campus and enjoys an active social life with many friends and family members. He is active in social networking and has more than 800 friends on Facebook. She lives with three friends, Olivia (Brit Morgan), Isabelle (Brooke Markham) and Gustavo (Sean Marquette). He is also close friends with Kobe (Connor Paolo) and dating Tyler (William Moseley).
Laura received a friend request from a college student at her campus, Marina Mills. Seeing his talent in animation, he accepted the request and started a friendship with the lonely girl. But he soon realized that Marina's Facebook profile was emblazoned in strange and disturbing pictures and his obsessive behavior began to make Laura feel uncomfortable. When Laura shared a picture of herself at her birthday dinner - where Marina was not invited - Marina openly and angrily challenged her on her college campus. During the fight, Laura accidentally pushed Marina and her hat down, showing her bald spot, the result of trichotillomania, causing Marina to escape. Laura noticed several comments Marina, who tried to apologize to her, Laura finally did not make friends with Marina on Facebook. Seeing the number of his friends once again down to zero, Marina is heartbroken angrily closing her laptop. That night, Laura saw a black mirror, which showed a forest where a dark figure was seen walking. When Laura looked at him, a frightening demon's face appeared behind her, but quickly disappeared as Olivia turned on the lights. The next morning, the teacher revealed that Marina had committed suicide, which surprised Laura.
Another night, Marina uploaded a video, showing that she burned Laura's picture and committed suicide by hanging herself, frightening Laura.
The next morning, Laura received a message from Marina containing her suicide video. Then, it was posted to his Facebook page. Laura can not delete the video, and her friends are down. With no choice, he tries to delete his account, but an unknown error occurs. Realizing that he was being followed, Laura went to Kobe's apartment to ask for help. When Kobe and Laura investigate Marina's Facebook page, they realize that the source code where it has been written is not the normal code.
That night, Marina adds Gustavo as a friend and posts a distorted picture of his face. The lights suddenly disconnected, he was then terrorized by spirits, while looking at things posted on the Marina page. Gustavo rushed into the elevator for safety, only to be attacked by a bunch of wasps; when the elevator door opens, he is seen banging his face against the elevator wall by an invisible force, and found by Isabelle, who is sent to the hospital and begins to blame Laura for Gustavo's death.
Video footage of the elevator attack posted on Laura's Facebook page. His friends then turned against him by sending angry and disgusted comments, making him an outcast. Laura tries to send messages to friends she does not know, but her confusion, the text suddenly turns into "you'll know what it's like to be lonely :)". Laura goes to the orphanage where she meets the woman, who reveals that Marina's real name is Nedifar; Marina was brutally suppressed and tortured by a boy when she was seven years old. However, they were killed by unknown assailants. Meanwhile, Kobe looks for a black mirror on the website. Suddenly, several of Marina's faces appeared on the monitor as the lights started flashing, but everything quickly changed when the janitor arrived.
Poor Isabelle was looking at the pictures on her phone, she began to hallucinate and noticed the body of a burning woman and rushed to get help but found that no one was there. Horrified after seeing the two men with their mutilated faces coming towards him, he rushed to the bathroom and locked himself. To make matters worse, he found his body before being killed by Marina. Laura went with Detective Cameron and her attendants to watch Isabelle's tape showing that the hospital staff was there revealing that she was hallucinating and cutting her own throat by madness, controlled by Marina. The tape was then posted on Laura's Facebook page. Tyler, Kobe and Olivia can not delete videos, not befriend Laura or deactivate their accounts because unknown errors keep happening, the number of Facebook friends Laura continues to decline, while Tyler searches Marina's home address. Olivia parted ways with Laura and moved away, afraid that she would share the same fate as Gustavo and Isabelle. Then, Laura sees Olivia's picture from the Marina's yard, the picture slowly melting, implying that she's next. Laura tried to call her, but Olivia turned off the phone, next to the laptop. Olivia was attacked by Marina with wasps and taken to the hospital. When Tyler and Detective Cameron spoke, Marina had Olivia through a heart and lunge monitor at Detective Cameron's officer, taking a gun from her. Instead of firing officers, he shot his own head, killing Olivia.
Meanwhile, Laura hunts the place where Marina committed suicide to destroy the black mirror that turns Marina into an evil spirit, she and Kobe go to Marina's burning house and try to find her. While there, Kobe sees the subtle entity coming out of the basement and approaches it, but disappears when Laura bumps into him. Laura tells him that Marina is not there, but she suggests that they look in the basement.
Marina is not found in the cellar, but when looking, Kobe is separated from Laura, who finds him staring into a black mirror. When he turns it around and asks what's wrong, he apologizes to Laura and says that she can not be lonely if she dies. Kobe suddenly stabs his stomach, hoping to kill him to save himself and Tyler. Laura hit him with a flashlight and fled from the downstairs room as Kobe chased but lost it. Laura then realized through one of Marina's posts that Marina committed suicide in one of the nearby factories.
Meanwhile, Tyler finds Kobe who is crazy looking for Laura. After getting a call, Tyler and Kobe go to the factory too, but he tells Kobe to stay in the car when he tries to find Laura. Upon arriving at the factory, the injured Laura starts looking for Marina's body, she receives a video call from her mother, Caroline, who tells her that she has also seen Marina. Laura's video call began to get annoyed because her mother started acting weird, a sign that she might be attacked by Marina. Caroline took a knife from the table and went to another room, probably killing herself when the connection time was up. Feeling ruined by her mother's death, Laura begins to cry after seeing all the people she loves taken away. Tyler soon finds it, only their reunion is interrupted when Kobe shows up and stabs Tyler in the throat, killing him. Laura tries to escape from Kobe once again but reaches a dead end. However, before he could kill Laura, Kobe was brutally assaulted and killed by a pack of wasps.
Laura, feeling absentminded, saw the appearance of two men (possibly the boys who oppressed Marina at the orphanage). Laura shouted at Marina, asking what she wanted from him, the younger Marina's spark appeared and said that she wanted to be good friends with her when she brought Laura to Marina's rotten corpse and her laptop that led Laura to one of Marina's previous posts. Laura is then attacked by Marina Satan.
Some time has passed and there are many new students. Laura was seen seeing some girls the same way as when Marina looked at Laura and her friends at the beginning. Laura then faces her laptop (which is actually Marina's laptop) and is shown to have zero friends, just like Marina before she meets Laura. Then his new account - which shares a dark, strange and renamed image of Lau Ra - is revealed. The camera showed Laura's eyes green and blue, implying that Marina had entered Laura.
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Cast
- Alycia Debnam-Carey as Laura Woodson
- William Moseley as Tyler McCormick
- Connor Paolo as Kobe
- Brit Morgan as Olivia Mathison
- Brooke Markham as Isabel
- Sean Marquette as Gustavo Garcia
- Liesl Ahlers as Marina Mills/Marina Nedifar
- Shashawnee Hall as Cameron Detective
- Nick Pauling as Cameron Detective Officer
- Susan Danford as Caroline Woodson, Laura's mother
Production
Originally titled Unknown Error , the film was renamed International Friend Request to avoid confusion with the 2015 movie Unfriended . In Germany, the movie is titled Unfriend , because Unfriended is released as Unknown User in Germany.
Filming
The film was recorded in Cape Town at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Although the film is produced by German director Simon Verhoeven and the German production company, most English-speaking players require films to be taken in English. The filming ended in March 2014.
Release
The film was released in Germany on January 7, 2016, April 20, 2016 in the United Kingdom and in the United States on September 22, 2017.
box office
On October 1, 2017, Friend Requests has grossed $ 3.5 million in the United States and Canada and $ 6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 9.5 million, against a production budget of $ 9.9 million.
In North America, the film was released alongside Kingsman: The Golden Circle and The Lego Ninjago Movie, and was initially projected to be a gross of around $ 5 million from 2,569 theaters on its opening weekend. However, after grossing only $ 750,000 on the first day, the projection of the weekend was lowered to $ 1.5-2 million. It eventually grossed $ 2 million, completing 7 at the box office, and giving Victor Frankenstein for the worst opening gross for a movie that was screened in over 2,500 theaters.
Critical response
The review collecting website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 15% approval rating based on 60 reviews, with an average 3.5/10. The key consensus of the site reads, " Friend Request ' to update the old-school adolescent horror because the digital age does not, unfortunately, include memorable characters, new fears, or novel bends. "At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 18 critics, shows "generally poor reviews". Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average value of "C" on a scale A to F.
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film for being "visually stylish and imaginative" but criticized it for not being very interesting when the movie went on. Jessica Kiang from Variety was impressed by the practical effect, but criticized the way the movie had little to do with "technology that seems to exist for criticism". Ally Wybrew of Empire gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, praising Debnam-Carey, who "[stands] [in between] mediocre performances" is different from badly written characters from Marina. Wybrew went on to criticize the clumsy lines, overenthusiastic scores, and protracted late action.
References
External links
- Friend Requests on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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