Unfriended Mini

So I finally got around to seeing Unfriended and I am pretty much as unimpressed as I figured I would be. It may have been really pointless to sit through it, because it turned out to be exactly what I figured that I would be, but I generally have a problem with flinging hate at something that I haven't given a chance.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend this film in the slightest. But I do have a teeny bit of praise to throw at it. I do think it is interesting to limit the storytelling to a computer screen. It makes it a bit claustrophobic because you just have this overall static screen that you can't get away from. What you can show and do with your characters is considerably restrained, so while some people can say that this was just lazy to have people sit there in front of a screen, it's clear that a lot of thought had to go into trying to figure out how to present traditional horror tropes within those confines. While some parts got rather contrived and stupid, for the most part I thought it pulled things off rather well.  

The rest of the movie, well, sucks. We aren't given the chance to know or care about the character as it wants to just get on with the killing. But the teenaged drama in just insufferable and it's unclear what emotions we are supposed to be feeling. Do I feel sad that they die? Do I feel scandalized by their betrayals of each other? Do I feel happy that the ghost killed everyone? I just don't know!