Nothing about Friend Request‘s story is original. Just to unpack that, this is absolutely a studio film. Much to my surprise, I kind of adored this movie. And yet, within that framework, against all odds, Friend Request is so much better than this genre ever requires. The general plot of Friend Request is even almost exactly like all of those other movies right down to the studio mandate to pull the cast from an array of young CW network TV stars. Unfriended, Polaroid, Smiley, The Den, One Missed Call and similarly The Bye Bye Man and Truth or Dare to name just the studio movies much less the indies. Friend Request came along amid a glut of studio movies that tried to update the horror template for the social media generation and got lost among similar movies about college kids being wiped out by demons using technology.
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