Unfriended
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| Directed by | Leo Gabriadze |
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| Written by | Nelson Greaves |
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| Cinematography | Adam Sidman |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $64.1 million |
Unfriended is a 2014 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by Russo-Georgian director Levan Gabriadze, written by Nelson Greaves, exec-produced by Jason Blum, co-produced by Adam Sidman, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Greaves. The film premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014, and at SXSW on March 13, 2015. It received a theatrical release on April 17, 2015. The film, which is told almost entirely through a high school student's MacBook screen, stars Shelley Hennig as one of several friends who find themselves terrorized online by an anonymous person. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics, and grossed $64 million against a $1 million budget.
In Fresno, California, high school student Laura Barns is relentlessly bullied after a video of her passing out and defecating herself at a party is uploaded to YouTube without her consent, causing her to fatally shoot herself in public, with a video of her suicide appearing on LiveLeak. A year later, her former best friend Blaire Lily is in a Skype chat with her boyfriend Mitch Roussel and their classmates Jess Felton, Ken Smith, and Adam Sewell. The group notices a user named "billie227" in their chat, who was not invited by any of the participants. After unsuccessful attempts to disconnect the user, the group suspects their classmate Val Rommel is pranking them. After they invite Val to their chat, Jess's Facebook page is updated with photos of Val at a party. Jess states she did not upload the photos and deletes them, but the pictures reappear on Adam's account. Val calls the police to report online abuse, and signs off Skype. Blaire is sent a link to a screenshot of a past message in which Val told Laura to kill herself. Val is suddenly brought back into the chat, but then is shown falling to the floor. The five classmates soon learn that Val is dead, and that the police have ruled it as a suicide. Ken manages to remove "billie227" from the chat, but "billie227" resurfaces with a camera view from across his room and disconnects his webcam. Shortly after, it reconnects to show Ken being attacked by an unseen force and he is shown shoving his hand into a blender, then Ken's Skype goes black. It then turns back on, showing Ken smashing the blender and shoving his throat onto the blades, killing himself.
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