While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead. Written by

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The Universal Studios logo plays but starts breaking up, an homage to the broken Skype video that will take place in the film.

The movie starts with someone's video desktop. They are on LiveLeak website being told that the video they are about to watch is disturbing and they must agree to be 18 or older to view it. They accept. The description top says this is a response to a YouTube video anonymously posted (with a link). The blurry video is played, showing a girl on a schools baseball field with a gun pointed at her face. People scream out at her to drop the gun but then she shoots herself. Everyone screams. The video is stopped as people run to her. The YouTube link is clicked and begins to play.

We see Laura Barns at a party, drunk, lying on a table with a guy on top of her. The video is interrupted as an incoming Skype call comes in its a shirtless guy lying on his bed named Mitch. He asks the girl whose POV we are seeing the film from to show off her body. She shows off her knees. He tells her to go higher. He picks up a large knife and demands that she take off her top. She tilts the camera up and unbuttons her shirt she is not wearing a bra but does not pull the shirt open and then tilts the camera down to show off her panties. All the while she tells him to keep threatening her with the knife, (i.e., "Take off those panties or I'll do it for you"). We see her face; she is Blaire, the pretty heroine of the story. She tells Mitch that she is ready to have sex for the first time with him on the night of formal. This conversation is interrupted when three other people pop up on the Skype call. Their videos freeze her in her underwear and him, jumping up in his boxer shorts. His best friend, Adam, points out that Mitch has a boner. Jess, Blaire's friend, is there, too, along with their wisecracking pal, Ken.

They notice that there is a mysterious person on the Skype with them. Ken jokes that he probably learned about their chat on the Boners & Farts website. He holds up his blender and says he's going to make his salsa and then there will be farts. They keep asking who invited the stranger but nobody knows who it is. They all disconnect to try to get rid of him. Blaire messages Mitch and asks who the guy is. He says he doesn't know. She continues talking, but he disappears from the conversation.

They all reconnect in the Skype but the mysterious person is still there.

They try to disconnect him but there is no option on his video to do so. Laura continues messaging Mitch privately on Skype, asking where he went. He says he was distracted by a weird message from Laura Barns. Just then, she gets a Facebook notification saying she got a new message from Laura Barns, too. Laura asks her, "Hey, Blair, who posted the video?" Blair asks, "Who is this?" It says, Laura is typing but there is no reply. She continues asking questions and types: "Why would you do something so messed up?" but doesn't send. On the Skype messenger, Mitch tells her that maybe the dead is trying to contact with them and sends her a link to a website forum where people are posting pictures and telling stories about how someone they knew was contacted by the deceased and then ends up killing themselves. It says people can be possessed and that they should not respond to any contact from the dead. Blaire begins freaking out with Mitch, asking who this person is and what she should do. He tells her she should "unfriend" her. She goes on the Facebook profile but both Unfriend and Report/Block are unclickable. She tells Mitch this, freaking out, asking him for help. He calmly replies, Try refreshing the page. She does and it actually works she unfriends her. She then gets a message saying "Nice try". Laura is still listed as her friend.

Mitch and Blaire go back in the Skype room, nervous. The others say they want to bring Val into the conversation but they all groan, saying they can't stand her. Val connects with them and Ken loudly calls her a slut and starts teasing her. They begin talking about the concert tickets Val is getting them. Blaire continues messaging with Mitch, telling him she couldn't unfriend her. He suggests that it's her brother. She says her brother wouldn't do that. He tells Blaire to turn her account into a Memorial page. She does a Google search on how to memorialize a Facebook account. She stumbles upon a RIP Laura Barns Facebook community page with thousands of likes, realizing that Laura is now more popular and loved than ever. Blaire fills out the form typing in Laura Burns name, the date of her death, and finding an article on Google about her suicide as proof she is deceased. She lists herself as a friend, opts for it to be made into a Memorial Site, and then clicks Send. Immediately, all of her answers change to: WEGOTHER WEGOTHER WEGOTHER WEGOTHER written over and over which causes the form not to end. Now she realizes she isn't dealing with just a normal person. Laura Barns messages her and asks: "What are you watching?" Blaire clicks over to the paused Laura Barns YouTube video she was watching at the beginning of the film paused at Laura passed out (with half of the video un-played). She quickly clears her History.

(Note: one of the Tabs above is a link to MTV's Teen Wolf which the actress who plays Blaire is on).

Blaire and Mitch message each other privately. He tells her he can't stand Val and that she is a floozy. When they go back in the chat, Billie calls Val a floozy, infuriating Val who demands to know who Billie227 is. Blaire is relieved and tells Mitch he scared her to death with his pranks but he promises her that he isn't behind Billie. Blaire then gets a notification on her Facebook that Jess has posted a photo album with Val tagged in it. She scrolls through to see tons of pics of Val drunk at someones house, smoking a bong. Everyone looks at the pics the same time and laughs at Val. She is upset, saying her mom is one of her Facebook friends, and yells at Jess. Jess says she thought the pics were funny but she didn't post them. Val begins to fight with Jess and Ken says he will pick them up and they can fight outside a Wendy's. Jess continues that she didn't post the pics but she will delete them. She then tells everyone, every time she clicks delete, she refreshes the page and it's back again. Finally, it works. But then a notification comes that Adam has posted the same pics. Val yells at him, asking if he copied and pasted, but he swears he didn't post. Blaire tells them how Laura Barns contacted her. They point out it's the one year anniversary of her suicide. Ken says that Laura was a slut and she deserved what happened to her. The mysterious user now begins typing to them, telling them it's Laura. They all put their hands up to show that they are not the ones who are typing. Billie (the user name of the unknown Skype account) tells them if they hang up, they're going to die. She then tells them "Lights out" and the lights simultaneously go off in their rooms. Now, they know it's not a joke. They start screaming at Billie and Adam grabs his father's gun and threatens to come over there and kill him. Billie continues taunting them and Val tells her she's going to come over there and mess her up. Billie replies: "You wouldn't like it where I am". Val gets a message (via email) and freaks out, saying that she has now been threatened. She calls the police and gives her address saying she is being threatened by someone online. The police say they'll be there shortly. Val signs off.

Billie then plays the Laura Barns YouTube video on everyone's computer. They try to close it but the video pops up over and over and it will not click off. We now see the end of the video where Laura is drunk on the ground, lying in her own feces. She shows a meme of her labeled LEAKY LAURA and individual YouTube comments from anonymous users which Billie points out is them. Blaire messages Laura Barns on Facebook saying that she's sorry. She explains that everyone was posting comments so they all did it too. She adds, But they're good people. Blaire looks at the profile of Billie's account and it is listed as Laura Barns. She now remembers that she used to chat with her on there and never deleted her from her user list. Billie threatens all of them and begins to count down, saying she will start to kill someone at the end of 60 seconds. Ken tells everyone to mute their computers and call each other on the phone. Jess freaks out because she has no phone. They all start talking to each other, oblivious that Billie is telling them that she can still hear them. They devise a plan to install a Trojan virus remover that should get rid of the user if he is a troll. Everyone is told to download the game Ken sends. Blaire downloads the Trojan Remover software along with everyone else but her Trash won't empty because an episode of SNL is still in her QuickTime Player. Right as Billie is finishing her countdown, Blaire closes down QuickTime, runs the program, and empties the trash. They all disconnect again and when they come back, the user is gone. They're all relieved and they laugh about the paranoia. They tease Adam for grabbing his dad's gun and he points out that his dad is out getting drunk with Mitch's dad (a way to explain that all their parents aren't home). Then Blaire gets an email from someone named Billie; it is a link to the picture on Instagram that Val had been sent. Blaire begins freaking out. Her friends tell her to send the email to Ken because he can track down the user via their IP address. But there is no Forwarding button. Adam complains to the girls with computers and they try to tell her how to Forward but she says there is no option. She sends a screen shot to Ken instead and he manually types in the Instagram link. They look at the Instagram picture and it is a screen shot of Laura emailing Val a year earlier, where Val ignores Laura's attempt at friendship and instead writes: KILL URSELF LAURA! The Instagram picture is already filled with comments from other students, telling Val she is a horrible person and that she is the one who killed Laura.

(Everyone now loves Laura after the cyber-bullying led her to kill herself.)

Val sends a request to chat and the group accepts. Val is standing, mindlessly, in her laundry room, next to a bottle of bleach, but the video appears frozen as she is not moving. They notice that the mirror behind her is messed up as if there's been some sort of struggle. Val continues standing still, frozen, and unresponsive but we hear her dog barking. Blaire calls her phone. Val's phone begins to wiggle on the screen proving that the screen is not frozen Val's just not moving.

BAM. Val's computer gets knocked down to the ground. We hear police officers entering the house. They start yelling out codes. Blaire goes on Google and looks up the police codes. The first one is for a time check. The second one she mishears and thinks its a call for medical help. She figures Val is just having a seizure and remembers that she mentioned she had a medical condition that causes seizures before the others don't know if this is correct. Blaire tries to find previous conversation on Facebook where she talked to Val about her seizures. But then Ken points out that the code was repeated as 10-56. Blaire looks it up and the code means suicide. They all freak out and Blaire tries to convince herself that Val just had a seizure.

Billie is back and tells them she knows all their secrets and is going to reveal them all. If they hang up, she will kill them. She then sends them all a file called NOTBOYFRIEND.JPG to download. Everyone is told not to click it but Blaire downloads the file and looks at it anyway. It's a picture of her lying romantically with Adam (not Mitch, her boyfriend). A second photo appears and she downloads it. It completes much faster and is another pic of Blaire and Adam together. In the chat, the mysterious user pops up again but now, instead of an icon, it's a video. They all shout "We can see you". But they aren't quite sure what they're looking at. It looks like it's from inside a crate. Ken says he's not going to just sit there and they see movement through the crate. The others tell him to go back to the computer and then stand up. Then, they realize the video is filming from a crate inside Ken's house. In both the crate video (from Billie's account) and Ken's video, we see him moving towards the crate and staring at something inside. Then his video becomes static and we start seeing, in broken flashes, him putting his hand and then, his face in a blender. It's not very clear what's happening because it's only shown in flashes, but blood is shown and he is committing suicide throughout the scene.

Now, it's just Blaire, Adam, Mitch, and Jess. Billie says they're going to play a game called Never Have I Ever. Jess notes it's the drinking game but Blaire has never even heard of the game, so they explain that she holds up five fingers and if she has done something, she puts one down. Billie tells them, in this game, if the loser doesn't drink, they will die. Billie starts listing statements: NEVER HAVE I EVER SPREAD A RUMOR ABOUT BLAIRE HAVING AN EATING DISORDER. Billie counts down from 10 until Jess finally admits it was her who started it, defending herself by saying it's kind of true since Blaire always says things like "I'm not hungry". Blaire is furious with her. Billie says: NEVER HAVE I EVER TURNED A FRIEND INTO THE COPS FOR POT. And Billie begins to countdown. Mitch admits it was him who told the cops about Adam because they both would have been in trouble otherwise. Adam is furious with Mitch and starts going berserk. Blaire messages Mitch privately to be careful with Adam because he has gone haywire before. Mitch points out only when he's drunk and Blaire tells him Adam is drunk now. Billie suggests: NEVER HAVE I EVER OFFERED JESS'S LIFE FOR MY OWN and counts down from 20. Finally, Adam admits it was him (apparently as an exchange between him and Billie/Laura Barns). Everyone begins fighting with each other. Blaire tells them that Billie is trying to make them all turn on each other and not to give in. Mitch then starts shouting out things: NEVER HAVE I EVER DRUGGED ASHLEY. NEVER HAVE I EVER FORCED ASHLEY TO HAVE AN ABORTION. To upset Mitch, Adam suggests one: NEVER HAVE I EVER HAD SEX. Billie counts down, repeating 5 over and over, until Blaire finally admits she has had sex (in the beginning of the film, she alluded to Mitch that she was a virgin and that formal is when she would finally have sex for the first time). Then Billie writes: NEVER HAVE I EVER CHEATED WITH MY BOYFRIEND'S BEST FRIEND. Mitch goes haywire. Blaire tries to explain that it was an accident, she was drunk, and it didn't mean anything; Billie begins to play a song on Spotify called How You Lie, Lie, Lie. Blaire tries to turn it off but the entire playlist is the song and it can't be clicked off. It plays as Blaire continues to defend herself, saying it was something quick. Blaire sobs and Mitch is furious. Billie says one of them is going to be the loser. Then all of a sudden, something prints on Adam's printer. He reads it to himself and then gets very uncomfortable and quiet. Mitch continues yelling at him but Adam is now stone-faced. They ask what the note says and he says he can't say. Mitch becomes paranoid. Then Blaire's computer sends something to her printer and she gets a piece of paper printed. She reads it and also gets very uncomfortable. Mitch begins to ask her questions, asking how deep their affair went. Blaire says they did it a second time for a few seconds just to see if there was anything between them. Billie begins to play a YouTube video on all their screens showing Adam and Blaire having sensual sex. Mitch begins to scream "What does the note say?" but they say they can't tell him. Mitch says: If you don't tell me, I'll hang up". Billie writes: "If he hangs up, I'll kill him". He is just about to hang up when Blaire finally shows him the piece of paper. It says: IF YOU SHOW THIS TO THE OTHERS, I KILL ADAM. Immediately, Adam shoots himself in the head. His piece of paper is revealed: IF YOU SHOW THIS TO THE OTHERS, I KILL BLAIRE.

Billie hints that Jess is next. Jess is told to lock herself in her bathroom and she obeys. Mitch and Blaire begin to scream about what should be done while a pop-up video comes up, a variation of the I love cams pop-up ad selling software that allows you to record webcam videos. Blaire and Mitch don't notice that one of the girls shown getting undressed on a cam is Blaire from the beginning of the film. Blaire goes on Google and looks for sites where you can chat with strangers, to ask for help. She goes on Chatroulette but nobody takes her seriously. She connects with men in Russia, two guys who are high, people who quickly change to a new person after she screams she needs help. This goes on for a while but she finally connects with a nice girl in the USA who is willing to help her. She asks her to call the police in Fresno, California and tell them to go to her friends house. She types the address and presses Send, but it does not show up (Blaire doesn't notice). The girl calls 911 and talks to them about the situation and the need for police assistance. She is asked the address and Blaire types it again, not realizing it had disappeared the first time. The girl reads the address to the police and they say they're five minutes away. It worked. But then Blaire goes back to the Skype and on Jess's webcam, she is being killed with a hair straightener hot iron in her mouth. Blaire gets a notification -- Jess was tagged in a new pic. Its a meme of her, dead, with the hair straightener iron in her mouth with the words: SOMEONE FINALLY GOT JESS TO STFU.

Now Blaire and Mitch are alone on Skype. There is silence and they seem to be safe when a buzzing sound is heard. However, it's just an alert from her calendar telling her to GO TO SLEEP TEST TOMORROW. She laughs about this with Mitch. But then Billie comes back and tells them she has one last question. "WHO POSTED THE VIDEO?" She says if they don't admit who did it, they will die. They swear they don't know. Laura messages Blaire on Facebook asking why she is protecting him. Laura says "He didn't do anything. I promise." but then backspaces and says "He did it". Immediately, Mitch stabs himself in the face with the large butcher knife he was using to flirt with Blaire in the first scene. Billie begins to play a song with a sarcastic title ('I Hurt Too').

Laura messages Blaire on Facebook and tells her that was the right thing to do. Blaire sobs for forgiveness, loading their friendship page on Facebook and scrolling down to show Laura all the pictures of them together as young girls. Blaire apologizes for them drifting apart. Laura writes: "Drifted apart? Is that how you remember it? I think there's more to the story...." She tells Blaire that she's going to have to live with what she did and will never be able to live it down. Just then, a new YouTube video is posted on the RIP Laura Barns Facebook page, starting with Laura drunk on the ground covered in her own feces. But at the end, where it normally stops, the cameraman films herself and it is revealed to be Blaire. She is laughing about what she just captured on camera and says: "I can't believe I just got Laura Barns on tape. We got her." ('We got her' is the message Laura originally changed the text to on the Facebook Memorial form).

All the comments come flooding in from other students watching the video, telling Blaire that she's the reason Laura killed herself, she's a monster, and suggesting that she KILL URSELF. Blaire is now getting the same kind of hate that drove Laura to suicide. All of a sudden, demon hands shut the laptop shut and the lights go out in Blaire's house. Then, a demon-faced teenaged girl (Laura) appears in the darkness and lunges at the camera.

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"Never Have I Ever"...seen something so innovative in a long time. Unfriended, a new found footage horror film, is about a group of older teenagers whose normal social life on Skype turns in a nightmare when a supposedly possessed Skype account begins making threats. Exactly one year earlier, a girl named Laura Barns committed suicide after an embarrassing video of her was anonymously posted on YouTube. These friends discover that the account belongs to the late Laura herself. After making some threats, "Laura" warns that she'll begin killing people if secrets aren't revealed and justice isn't served. Unfriended takes a whole new approach to horror storytelling with the entire film being "set" on Blaire Lily's (Hennig) computer screen, and it works incredibly well. It's a very gripping concept, and while we're all expecting jump scares, which do happen about once or twice, the scares build up like all good horror films should...slowly and naturally. The tension is truly built off of the genuine feeling of a supernatural presence as well as some well-constructed creepiness, including Laura possibly being in one of the friends' rooms. Laura's threats progress into a game that brings up and reveals all kinds of rumors and secrets that this close group of friends have kept from one another, which include cheating and ripping off money. Although these characters aren't too thickly drawn, watching the truth break is truly sad, especially to one main male character in particular. The fear is further heightened with some terrific acting by a wide range of unknowns, with the best performance being from Hennig, of course. I didn't find any big flaws with this movie besides character depth, but some of the scares could've just been a wee better. Overall, I walked out of the theater terrified but not enough to have trouble sleeping or fear going on the computer. Why else am I here typing this review? Prepare for something new.

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RforFilm from Murrieta, CA
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When I sat through Unfriended, I kept asking myself whether modern teenagers would really communicate this way. To those that don't know, the movie in it's entirety is portrayed through a computer desktop; as in all the characters are communicating through Skype, text messaging, social media messaging or even random chat sites. My argument was that teens would rather communicate face to face rather then link their electronic devices together. But I underestimated how much our youth loves technology and can adapt pretty fast to the new hip thing, and therefore, ready to exploit it as much as possible.

Teenagers may be the best candidates to become tomorrow's online engineers, but when a smart writer comes to Facebook, we also attract a couple of rotten viruses. I'm not talking about infections to ones software or system, but those bad apples that only want to start a fight or make someone else's life miserable by bullying them. This cyber bullying epidemic is so much of a problem that the things said about others or worse, videos posted about others, has led to mental problems and even suicides. One case of cyber bullying gets their revenge in the online set, Unfriended.

The movies setting (a computer desktop) takes places on the screen of Blaire, a high scholar who is chatting with her other friends, boyfriend Mitch, alcoholic Adam, guy friend Ken, Jess, and Val. It is the one-year anniversary of the death of a fellow high-scholar, Laura Barnes who committed suicide over an embarrassing video that showed her drunk along with the message "Kill Ur Self Laura". The set of kids continue to talk about this, siding with the rest of the internet that the actions against this poor girl were awful. Things get weird when they notice that another person has joined their conversation.

The blank screen that is the sixth person chatting never shows their face, cannot be hung up on, and sends messages demanding justice for Laura. Then Laura's old Facebook account is re activated with messages demanding that Blaire and the other kids spill their secrets. Blaire simply assumes that one of the other kids may be pulling a sick prank, but that theory is disproved when the ghost hacker starts to spill the secrets for them. None of the kids are allowed to leave their computers, as they must figure out a way to outwit the mysterious sixth caller or answer to their sins.

As I've said, I've wanted more variety in the horror genre besides constant found footage features. Though this is similar, Unfriended managed to keep me on the edge of my seat. Not because of the scares I was about to face, but for the secret that each teen had to confess to. Unfriended clearly built up their characters and their history behind the cyber bullying death in a smart way that it's never spoon-fed. The revelation behind our characters is out of order and even with the computer screen facing the audience, we have to pay close attention to know what's going on.

You know your sitting in an enjoyable movie when the teenagers watching Unfriended with you are loud during the trailer, but do not even peep a whisper during the majority of the film. The people were screaming in my theater, and though not everyone works, I did jump at a few of them. Even the reveal of the hacker was a little weak. I won't spoil it, but you'd wish it was more techno based then supernatural based. But the scares weren't the point of the movie; it's a revenge thriller first and foremost.

I'll give this eight dead online accounts out of ten. Perhaps Unfriended will make you think twice before posting an embarrassing photo of someone you know; it just may come back to haunt you!

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bax12 from United States
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I just don't understand how people don't get what this movie is trying to accomplish. This movie has a lot to say, but I think that people are thrown off because it's a horror film.

People have got to stop cyberbullying. People really do kill themselves because of it. This movie shows the effects that it has on the people that pushed others to kill themselves. I would like to say that this movie pertains to high schoolers and young adults the most, but I believe nowadays everyone needs to see this movie. Nearly everyone is on Facebook or some social media. I have seen grown adults online saying awful things to each other. Social media has ruined people's lives yet people continue posting terrible things about each other.

I feel this movie is attempting to show people that we all need to grow up and realize the dangers of social media.

*Possible Spoiler* This movie uses the fact that the person from the dead can come back and get people to kill themselves. While this is a little ridiculous, it actually makes sense, because the thought of knowing that you made someone kill themselves would definitely make you question whether you really deserve to be alive. Being responsible for someone's death would definitely affect a person's mental health.

I think people should see this movie as a lesson about social media rather than a horror/thriller.

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slyjose101 from Puerto Rico
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I was hyped for this movie from the moment I saw the trailer, despite the overwhelmingly negative reaction that trailer got (people saying it looked stupid and gimmicky while complaining about the lack of creativity in modern horror movies... oh the irony). Tonight, I got the chance to watch it and I'm glad to say it didn't disappoint. I got exactly what I expected to get: a tense, well-acted, unique, and perfectly crafted thriller with an insanely high amount of suspenseful entertainment packed into its short run time. Without a doubt, Unfriended is one of the best thrillers to come out in the past few years.

Despite what people might be saying, this isn't a found footage horror movie. This isn't 80 minutes of a bunch of bozos shaking a hand-held camera while loud, cheap jumpscare noises play to startle the audience. This is 80 minutes of tense, realistically handled supernatural "horror"(I put that in quotes cause the movie isn't actually as scary as it is tense, suspenseful, and stressful) with characters who actually behave like real teenagers would instead of the generic cardboard cutouts we get in most modern horror movies. Yes, the characters aren't particularly likable (with the exception of main character, Blair), but that's not the point. The point is that, for once, we get characters who actually behave like human beings and don't make stupid decisions just to lead the audience into another cheap jumpscare. Granted, there are a few jumpscares here, but they're not the focus. The focus is the relationship between these characters, the way the killer drives them apart by revealing secrets, and the increasing tension as more and more people die.

Unfriended kept me glued to the screen for the entirety of its short run time. Not once was I bored, not once did I feel the movie was going nowhere. The tension escalates and escalates until the breaking point finale, and by then you're already on the edge of your seat. Check this one out and ignore all the negative comments. Most of them are either from people who expected the movie to be absolutely terrifying, people who despise gimmicks in movies (no matter how well they're executed), or people who simply aren't interested in the idea of a movie being told through a computer screen, facebook messages, and primarily skype chats (people who have zero interest in modern computers and social media). Even if you're not a computer freak, Unfriended will probably hook you as it did me. Give it a chance. It deserves it just for being brave and ambitious enough to try out something entirely new.

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Merritt Dietz from United States
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This film may not seem like much from the trailer, but it delivers. The actors all perform admirably, especially given their recent arrival to the big screen. Moreover, the cinematography is done very cleverly to capture suspenseful images and vantage points. There is hardly any redundancy, which makes the plot progression unpredictable, keeping you on the edge as you anticipate what's to come next. Overall, due to the seamless meshing of sheer performance into a horrific cyberspace environment while at the minimal expense of realism, Unfriended is an unmistakable standalone in its genre that does not fail to captivate and shock even the most seasoned audience!

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Marcus Underdog Dede (mrcs_dede@yahoo.com)
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Unfriended is a new form of horror kind of like found footage but it did please me as a film. The story is very simple an old school mate kills herself due to cyber bullying and in person and some how haunts the people some what responsible for causing her to kill herself. This may have not been the greatest horror film but it is very well done. It feels grounded and real as the whole movie takes place all over a computer screen and they product place almost everyone to facebook, google, and apple. But the best thing is that it doesn't use the fake Hollywood kind of computer screen placement stuff its actually how you would do stuff on the computer. But the story is very basic and new aged almost a new breed. My fear is that new movies will come out like this and they may make a sequel to this because it may actually make some money. My biggest problem with this is the adult supervision and something else isn't explain about the killings but I'm not going to spoil it. But in all honesty i thought this movie was going to be crap but it wasn't to bad and very funny at times.

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kate1209 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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I went to see this movie with a very open mind, and I didn't know much about the premise. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked Unfriended. Seeing it in the theater instead of at home was advantageous-- it was suspenseful since there were no distractions.

The acting was one of the bright spots. There was no blatantly terrible dialog and their reactions weren't cheesy or unbelievable. The editing was also pretty seamless, and the premise of it being shown entirely through Blaire's perspective was unique and interesting. We could see her thought process, as she was typing and retyping things to figure out the best wording to use.

If you like horror/suspense films, give Unfriended a chance!

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doofuspoofus from United States
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I have to say this movie reminded me of plenty other films such as Sorority Row, Tamara, Cry Wolf or the most recent remake of Carrie and yet Unfriended held its' own pretty damn good. When I heard how the film was going to be shot I was a little skeptical as to whether or not it would work or just be really boring.

Typically in these type of supernatural films there's a lot of wandering slowly down dark halls with figures appearing in the shadows so I was skeptical but this was really creative. I think the storyline was a pretty basic ghost revenge story and yet with a modern twist. The internet offers a new form of bullying that unfortunately is all too real and this movie shows the consequences of such actions to the extent of driving someone to commit suicide.

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on this the characters were interesting but it really got annoying listening to them argue like little elementary kids. Some of it was okay for humorous reasons but after awhile it was annoying. I do also think it would've been better with adults instead of teenagers simply because if this Laura ghost had gone after them years later they would have had more reason to have forgotten the details of "the video" and the "incident".

Which in that case I think the incident would've had to have been something more serious than it was such as her being raped and being shamed for it and made fun of afterward. That really would've given the story more depth but it was a good scary movie that for me would've been more intense if I hadn't seen it in theaters. The audience I guess found the character's fighting hilarious and couldn't take the movie seriously after awhile which made it hard to enjoy the scares. My advice see it alone to really see how you feel about it.

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vengeance20 from United Kingdom
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Just got back from seeing this film & have to say it's just epic!

The film is about the death of Laura barns who committed suicide by shooting herself in the park on the 12th of April 2013. A year later, on the night of the anniversary of her death, a sinister force starts hunting down those responsible: Blair & her friends via Video Chat Network & picking them off 1 by 1 in vicious gruesome ways!

The film's premise is pretty simple, but epic! I've seen a couple of cyber-bullying films but are nothing in comparison to this! This was a different cyber bullying themed film laced with a strong dose of horror!

The deaths in this film were dark & gruesome, like the blender death scene which was vicious! Basically the 5 friends encounter an unknown user under the name Billie227, the user which they think is a hacker, but things rapidly spiral out of control & the spirit begins to start turning the friends against themselves with dark games & revealing how they were involved in her suicide!

I also liked how the film was so close to home with the internet, like me right now typing feels like how it was in the film! Despite the annoying arguments in the film which dragged on a tad bit too much the film was dark intense & very well executed! I dare you to watch it!

The dark humour in the film also added to the atmosphere! It really does scare the living hell out of you as this has actually happened to people in real life & those who plan on cyber bullying better think twice, especially if they watch this film! You never know, your deepest darkest secrets could be used against you if you choose to cyber bully & you'll pay with your lives!

But overall, this film was dark & creepy in so many levels! And kicked so much arse! You'll love it! I can't wait for the sequels!

9/10

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moviewizguy from United States
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IT FOLLOWS​ and THE BABADOOK​ may be more elegantly made and filled with allusions that go beyond the surface of things, but in terms of pure scares and effectiveness, UNFRIENDED​ has those two films beat by a long shot. High in relatability and a critical snapshot of where we currently are in modern society, UNFRIENDED uses every trick in the book that you could possibly think of - and never even thought of - for a film that takes place entirely on someone's desktop screen. And yet: the film is always compelling and never really boring. On top of that, it's ambitious and creative and an ingenious way of storytelling that hasn't been done quite as well in the past. To top it off, the performances by the young actors are very good, though some might say downright unlikable (we'll have to disagree there). While the film may be dated in the next couple of years, it's the here and now that makes the film so timely, relevant, and ultimately unsettling.

tl;dr...8/10

All of the Facebook and Skype accounts shown in the film, actually exist and can be found on Facebook and Skype
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All filmed in one house with all the cast members in different rooms. (Except Ken)
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To keep the film suspenseful and believable, each take had script alterations on the fly and the cast were encouraged to improvise and react to the unexpected story changes.
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It was Shelley Hennig's idea to the producers to have them act out the entire film in one single take, after going through long takes lasting ten minutes.
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Shot in one long take, in real time, with the characters on actual computers. Production lasted 16 days total, including six 12 hour days of principal photography, three days of pick ups and then a few more re-shoots and other stuff.
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On Blaire's computer screen is an open page for Teen Wolf, the actress that plays Blaire (Shelley Hennig) also has a role on Teen Wolf
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The film is technically an independent film due to no studio being attached until 2014 when Universal had acquired distribution rights.
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The filmmakers created a mock Skype interface for the film to avoid technical issues such as lag.
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A lot of the scenes in the marketing trailers and TV spots, are not in the final cut of the film.
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Inspired by the actual suicides of Amanda Todd and Audri Pott.
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The film was originally titled Offline, then it was Cybernatural, then finally re-titled to "Unfriended".
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When the actress who plays Val Rommel (Courtney Halverson) was in a movie theater watching the movie for the first time someone pulled the fire alarm and the theater had to be evacuated. Several people in the crowd waiting outside joked that it must have been the ghost of Laura Barns.
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An original draft featured an alternate version of Jess' demise in which as her lights are on in her room she is pulled away by an invisible Laura, violently bashed back and forth off the walls until under Laura's thrall she falls to the ground and with a concealed hacksaw saws off her left arm, bleeding out to death as Blaire watches Jess' facebook cover photo become a graphic mimicking her attack and death. The alternate version facebook page replica can be viewed on youtube.
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Shot on a series of long takes, with the cast acting out the entire film. The final cut was one of the long takes.
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In an earlier cut of the film, the characters' dialogue could be heard during scenes of text messaging between Blaire and Mitch. In the final version, all background dialogue is muffled during the texting.
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Heather Sossaman's first film to be released in a wide release. This also marks her first film to have major-studio involvement.
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The dates in Blaire's Facebook conversations only date as far back as October (the film takes place in 2014). But every time Laura starts threatening them, the dates switch back to 2013.
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In the friends list of Blaire's Facebook account, we see that she messaged with Nelson Greaves. Nelson Greaves is the writer of the film.
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The complete User Interface with Skype, Gmail, YouTube, etc was fully translated in non english versions.
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The opening sequence was not originally meant to feature around just Laura Barns' suicide but rather various other fictional characters who had been driven to suicide. In the second theatrical trailer Blaire's desktop pulls up a video of a man on liveleak.com leaping from a foundry building to his death before a horrified crowd as well as a man swan diving from a Fresno bridge. The completed start sequence has only liveleak detailing Laura's final moments at their school's basketball courts before firing upon herself in front of a crowd of onlooking, horrified teachers and classmates.
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An alternate version of Adam's death oversaw him under Laura's thrall proceeding outside into traffic and making collision with a sedan, killing him instantly and disconnecting him from the then four-way Skype call. The implications of Adam's death along with shot footage of this scene was actually played out in the second theatrical trailer.
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Recurring on Blaire's desktop alongside her Teen Wolf MTV site tab is a tab for Johnny Cash's song "Spiritual", which despite frequently appearing throughout Unfriended through both the youtube tab and Blaire's Spotify which she scrolls through is not played. The song itself has been googled by Blaire in the film for the meaning behind the lyrics, which is the legendary singer and his famous partner/collaborator/wife June Carter's turn to faith in their last few remaining years alive. Lyrics in the song actually read "I don't want to die alone."
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Shelley Hennig's second horror film to be released by Universal. The first one was "Ouija."
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The main actors and actresses all auditioned for their respective roles via Skype and had a set group audition where they were required to play off one another. Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm and Will Peltz upon their initial auditions landed their respective roles however Jacob Wysocki and Courtney Halverson tried a second audition of embodying the complete personality of what they believed the filmmakers wanted for their characters, upon their second joint audition they landed their parts as Ken Smith and Valerie Rommel.
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Christa Hartsock who portrays the friendly female Chatroulette user who agrees to contact the police for Blaire appears alongside her actual dog in the video feed.
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A bottle of Ajax is shown on top of the washers behind "val," then when she gets her seizure and her photo is frozen, the bottle of Ajax is turned so the label doesn't show.
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The second time Heather Sossaman and Shelley Hennig have worked together, they both have appeared in Days of Our Lives, but most likely didn't have any scenes together.
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Marks the second time actress Hennig has appeared in a supernatural slasher film alongside a Secret Life of the American Teenager star, the first being the 2014 Ouija in which she appeared alongside Ricky Underwood Daren Kagasoff and the second being this, alongside Madison Cooperstein Renee Olstead who portrays her bestfriend Jess Felton.
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Revealed by actress Renee Olstead that writer Greaves had written Jess as having a crush on Adam and him not being interested in her, but rather her bestfriend Blaire. If one is to pause and look carefully through Blaire's emails, there is one from Adam which has a quick line of him admitting his actual interest in her and how he believes Mitch is not the right guy for her.
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Film's producer Timur Bekmambetov conceived the general idea of the film, and as revealed by the film's screenwriter Nelson Greaves had the idea of setting a film on a computer desktop back in 1999 to early 2000, marking almost a full 15 years before the film came into actual production.
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The release of Unfriended marks the fifth feature-film collaboration between Universal and blockbuster producer Blum's Blumhouse Productions.
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As part of the band Bandshes, Zoe Chatfield performs the song "Lost Cities" which Blaire plays as she settles in on her laptop before starting her Skype call with Mitch and, later, the group including Olstead's character Jess (her best friend).
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Renee Olstead did not attend any of the festival screenings of the film, when originally titled Offline and Cybernatural, first seeing it when it was released theatrically and not aware the shots that made the final cut, determining the ending and fate of the characters, including Jess'.
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Renee Olstead and Courtney Halverson under director Gabriadze's instruction watched dozens of recorded web chat videos between friends which resulted in arguments, in order to prepare for the Jess and Val argument over the tagged photos. Olstead and Halverson commented however they could not believe after watching the videos they did that this the lengths modern teenagers would go to online to argue.
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Renee Olstead had tripped numerous times throughout shooting in her set bedroom over lighting and rigging cables when doing her scripted movements.
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GoPro HERO 3 Black cameras were used as the characters webcams, only a standard camera was utilised in the general shooting of Blaire Lily's desktop and the final sequence between Blaire and Laura Barns.
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Nelson Greaves did not initially grasp the idea of the film, producer Bekmambetov had to pitch the general plot a bunch of times to him before he could understand the film.
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Bekmambetov spent his time in the editing bay editing through the film on Skype.
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The actors and actresses would spend an entirety of up to 85 minutes in their respective character rooms for their prolonged takes.
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Producer Timur Bekmambetov has revealed he wishes to do a string of films captured in the style of Unfriended spanning from Teenage Slasher Horror to Action, Fantasy, Romance and Comedy.
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The house, located in Santa Clarita, California, is an actual residence. During their search, Greaves and Gabriadze had to have a place that could accommodate the crew, as well as have separate rooms for each cast member. To create the illusion that each room was in a different location in the teens' fictitious town, these rooms needed to be designed differently. As the production's man of many talents, Sidman worked with production designer Heidi Koleto to take the lead on locations and find the perfect house.
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Before principal photography began, the cast rehearsed at Bekmambetov's Bazelevs production offices, sitting in a circle and going through the script. The way the film was shot, the cast members were completely separate from one another, each operating from a desktop in a separate room in a house in Santa Clarita, California.
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In the beginning, the team had actors read in the room with them, but it soon became quite clear that they needed to audition in front of a computer. So, the casting process took place just that way, in two different rooms, via video chat, and the cast was chosen based upon those auditions.
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Its opening weekend is the biggest debut for an original horror movie since The Conjuring, which opened with $41.9 million in July 2013.
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Rumors circulating as early as January 14th, 2014 indicated that MTV's Ashley Rickards was considered for the lead role of Blaire Lily as was Alyson Stoner and Ariel Winter. Also in unconfirmed widespread rumor was that Bradley Seven Perry and Jake T. Austin were considered for the role of Adam Sewell, Cameron Palatas, Noah Crawford and Peyton Clark for the role of protagonist boyfriend Mitch Roussel, Hannah Endicott-Douglas and Becky Rosso for Jess Felton, Blaire's bestfriend. Online rumors as to would be assuming the other two main roles of the film were non-existent though hugely blown up circulation as to who would be playing the Laura Barns of the film was rumored from Victorious' Victoria Justice to A Cinderella Story's Alexis Raich.
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Cameo: Uncredited voice and brief leg and right hand appearance of Konstantin Khabenskiy.
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In auditioning actresses for the role of Blaire, the team knew the moment they saw Shelley Hennig that she was their Blaire.
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Heather Sossaman had to shoot seven different ways for her character Laura to commit suicide. In an interview with We Got This Covered, she stated that one of the ways Laura was originally going to die was by hanging and she said filming that scene was scary. When it came to committing suicide by shooting herself, she said that was one of the easiest ways and the film ended up going with that.
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In one of the final scenes of the film, in Blaires messages there's a message from Nelson Greaves saying "It was me!" Nelson Greaves wrote the film.
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The tools which are utilised in the teenager's demises are foreshadowed in the first five seconds of their skype call, even Blaire's fate as from where Laura springs from in the end to attack her becomes the immediate backdrop as she is adjusting through the six way Skype call.
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The order of deaths follows in terms of the severity of their actions in relation to the cyber-bullying of Laura which contributed to her suicide. Each of the six victims posted nasty comments on the set up Laura Barns page on facebook under anonymous user accounts however Laura's vengeance goes in accordance to the main focuses of humilation: When inboxing Val about the bullying and pleading with her to stop she responded with Kill Yourself and Instagram embarrassed her taking her pleas out of context, Ken had been the one to set up the facebook page about Laura to house the insulting posts, comments and the viral video entitled Leaky Laura, Adam had been the one to slip Laura Rohypnol in order to get her pass out whilst drunk with an upset stomach (leading to her excreting herself and leaking out with menstruation blood), Jess had afterwards apparently defaced her grave, Mitch had uploaded and posted the video to the facebook page and youtube nicknaming her Leaky Laura and Blaire had been the one to record the video. However of all the character's indiscretions only Jess had been the one not to be responsible for what she was entirely punished for, Jess had merely only been one of the anonymous slanderers and one to further send the snapchat entitled Leaky Laura around.
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The film was rewritten with five different storyline playouts, end twists, styles and concepts. The first rewrite entailing the possibility of a human killer avenging the tragic suicide of Laura Barns (putting in a more striking similarity with similar horror movie The Den of 2013), the second as leaked online had the idea of manipulation horror set by one or more of the six teenagers who play out as our main characters, the third having a more concentrated ghost (or ghosts) in the machine concept eliminating the larger stretch of Laura's affect on the environment of the victims, the fourth rewrite overseeing the viral video of Laura Barns being one that depicts a date rape incident by Adam and Mitch. The final being the completed story of Laura Barns becoming roofied by Adam as a practical joke resulting in Laura drunk passing out, excreting herself and leaking menstrual blood, being viral video and snapchat humiliated along with cyberbullied on facebook, msn and instagram leading to her suicide, surfacing as a vengeful spirit on the anniversary of her death in 2014 and killing off the six teenagers responsible one by one following the reveal of their darkest and deepest secrets. The original four drafts of Unfriended's plot whilst under the working title of Cybernatural and Offline also oversaw an irrelevant date for Laura Barns' vengeance and Laura not facebook, skype, instagram and twitter exposing the characters for their responsibility in her suicide.
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Ken and Val's deaths are drastically changed from their original versions, as evident from the sequences in the theatrical trailer to the theatrical release. Ken is not attacked from behind by a relatively unseen Laura Barns who pushes him to blendering himself, instead his video cuts out as Laura advances with Ken still staring frozen at the lattice in his study. Ken's final cut death involves being held in place standing to moving his hand and throat into the blender blades as his cam buffers in. Val's original death as evident in the theatrical trailer shows her be overtaken by an attacking Laura in her bedroom after crying over the tagged photos of her uploaded by Laura through Adam and Jess' facebooks. Val's final cut execution involves a sudden violent seizure causing her to brutally smash her head upon her tiled bathroom floor after ingesting a lethal amount of kitchen bleach. In the theatrical trailer Val whilst crying ingests a fatal amount of Ajax tablets from her bedside desk, effectively dying in a different location in her house.
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Around the end, on Blaire's Facebook's private messages page, at the left side, where the previous messages are listed, shows one message at the top of the list that doesn't appear throughout the film. The message is by Nelson Greaves, with the last sent saying 'JK IT WAS MEEE'. Nelson Greaves is the writer of the film.
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The only shot in the movie that's not a computer screen is at the very end when Blair shuts her laptop and is then attacked by Laura's ghost.
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The final and completed version is the only of all four versions that paints Laura Barns as not only a completely innocent victim but a human teenage girl who in turn was somewhat of a high school bully herself to which the other bullies went too far. With the finalized portrayal of the character the film settles with an honest portrayal of Laura's human cruelty as when coming for Jess concerning the vandalism of her headstone it is revealed that Adam was in fact the real culprit, yet despite his confession at that point Laura has developed a vindictive streak and bloodlust as by that point of the film she has already killed Val, Ken and Adam.
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Body Count: 7
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Certifications:
Australia:MA15+ / Canada:14A (British Columbia) / France:-12 (with warning) / Germany:12 / Ireland:16 / Ireland:18 (video rating) / Netherlands:16 / New Zealand:R16 / Philippines:R-13 / Russia:18+ / Singapore:NC16 / South Korea:15 / Switzerland:16 / Thailand:18 / UK:15 / USA:R (certificate #49723)