Unfriended

The centrality of the laptop screen in Unfriended has been identified by some critics as a new or experimental take on found footage horror, but this is not the first film to use this idea.

As silly as the premise might sound, Unfriended is actually a surprisingly clever movie. It's far smarter and meaner than it looks.

It's a premise that seems ridiculous until you start to realize it might actually be brilliant, or at least charmingly clever.

This is the closest exploitation cinema has come to capturing the hive-like buzz of online life in all its invasive intimacy.

This is clever, even poignant stuff. Oldies as well as adolescents will find themselves intrigued.

[The film-makers'] greatest achievement in this high-end exploitation is to retain a position on the moral high ground while bloody mayhem rages around their feet

An effective and ambitious interpretation of what it means to grow up with and live on the internet.

Meant as an attack on cyberbullying, this body count movie loses any hope of a meaningful social commentary just around the time a possessed blender frappés a teen.

Puts very real seeming (although slightly hysterical) teens in an unreal situation. As the stakes rise so do the emotions, so parents, be warned that you may be as horrified by the language as you are by the thrills and chills.

A simple yet intelligent twist on a rather tired genre.