Really Surprised!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I think I should begin this post with how I even came across this movie.I went to see Unfriended: Dark Web in the theater--terrible movie. I found out from a review of that terrible movie that it was actually a sequel to Unfriended and that Unfriended was better. OK. Let me watch the first movie in the series, maybe I'll like it. In my Netflix search for Unfriended, Friend Request came up. Sure, I'll watch Friend Request. Friend Request was definitely better. The main character, Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey), is a nice popular girl on campus and has well over 800 Facebook friends (bleh). Sorry, that was me throwing up at the thought of Facebook "friends". She's approached by a goth-looking introvert named Marina (Liesl Ahlers) who'd like to be friended on Facebook by the effervescent Laura. Laura complies and shortly finds out that Marina might not be the sanest girl to friend in any context--even cyber-friending.The movie was "when the paranormal infiltrates tech". This is nothing new but this is social media based. Ultimately, this movie is about young, pretty, nubile college students being killed--you know, like most scary movies. There are a few jump scares and then there is the shocking. The value in the movie is the creativity and creepiness of the few specters shown as well as the mode of death of those who were killed. Some of the deaths were lame and others were cool (in a horror movie way). Considering that most scary movies are awful I'd say that overall this was OK.

Friend request is simply put a killing spree of a girl who befriends an outcast then her life goes to hell...the scares were predictable but more jumpy then expected...an okay film but honestly needed a lot more work and effort put into it to make it worth while...It's a mix of Unfriended and House Hunting...but not much for its own originality...horrible film but all this had going for it was its storyline...

I didn't expect to see a fantasy horror movie which reminds me every two minutes of "The Ring", but I definitely guessed the quality right. Pretty boring movie with the typical averagely talented teenie actors and a rather uninteresting story that borrows elements from pretty much everywhere in its genre. At least the ending was good.

I had such high hopes for this movie. First I'd like to say the makeup and special effects were amazing, but the story fell flat and never really picked up. I know a lot of horror movies have the slow parts that add details and then a shocker at the end that puts the pretty bow on the building plot line, however, this movie was too predictable. 35 mins into the movies I accurately guessed the end which also stucks because I didn't even like the villain even though I knew her background. Her punishment to these people in no way added up to what they did. I may be a bit of a "horror movies snob" but I will say this movie, if tweaked properly, has the potential to be awesome.