Unfriended

Être devant un ordinateur de système d'exploitation pendant 12 heures par jour et ne pas pouvoir s'en échapper même le soir lorsque je veux l'éteindre pendant un film, ce n'est pas du tout agréable. Et regarder dessus (en plus sur un grand écran!) des dialogues ennuyeux, des disputes plus tard et enfin des adolescents effrayés, interrompus par des sonneries constantes et des déconnexions de Skype, c'est encore pire. Mais peu à peu, une aura de mal invisible et surnaturel commence à fonctionner et apporte quelques frissons. Un concept étonnamment prometteur, qui s'il avait été développé plus en profondeur, aurait pu dissuader quelqu'un de se connecter aux réseaux sociaux pour une soirée. Ce que aucun autre film n'a réussi à faire jusqu'à présent. 3* plus faible. (24/06/2015)

I’m giving it a weak four stars with a clear conscience. It’s not a horror film that would make you pull at your hair in fear, cover your eyes or turn the lights on after watching it, but I appreciate the playful and fun way the vengeful spirit fucks with the Skypers, and, in particular, the original concept, how it’s maintained throughout the film and how convincingly it’s delivered. It’s not something entirely novel, films like The Den and Open Windows used a similar format, but the former switched to other cameras somewhere around the middle, and in the latter the laptop camera begins to disappear and in the end it goes God knows where, because the film completely breaks down conceptually. Unfriended is the first (as far as I know) film that strictly sticks to the concept. It feels realistic (not only technologically, but, surprisingly, also in the behaviour of the characters, including the performances of the actors) and also takes place in real time. For me, reason enough for an above average rating. (20/06/2015)

This is good work, surprisingly. For the first fifteen minutes, I thought that this theme would only hold up in the short film format. But then the casual conversation film is disrupted, the relationships start to intensify, and evil starts to work through the tiny windows of the blurry Skype image. After that you're just waiting for it to devolve into standard genre explainer and it... great ending. (07/08/2015)

Imaginative, suspenseful, restrained. Pleasant surprise. (15/10/2018)

Ironically, the uniqueness of the form doesn't stand out as much in the theater as it does on my monitor at home, where it handles one of horror's most terrifying premises: that I have an Apple interface on my screen. Otherwise, it's a genuinely interesting bit of exotica that, while it can't sustain multiple films, now manages perfectly to bring that shit to your room, not to mention that the main cast are a bunch of complete jackasses and the avenging ghost isn't so much scary as a cool troll proving the age-old truth that Hell is 4chan. (06/10/2015)

Après tous les contes de fées et comédies, je devais terminer ce réveillon de Noël avec quelque chose de plus audacieux et le film d'horreur original et ultramoderne Unfriended s’est avéré être le bon choix. L’originalité et le concept sont ses plus grands atouts et moi, j’étais rivé à mon siège du début à la fin. Je suis extrêmement satisfait ; ce film colle parfaitement à son époque et on aurait difficilement imaginé ça dans les années quatre-vingt-dix. (25/12/2015)

The film "Unfriend" doesn't have very good acting performances, but it's enough to portray the current young generation. The actors are rather annoying than outright bad. However, you would expect exactly these kinds of actions from them, so what happens doesn't look so much like a script eruption, but it all fits together nicely. The film has a good progression and at the end, I was quite surprised, but at the same time, I realized how well it all came together. (25/05/2016)

A stylish one-off that works in a relatively creative way with the concept of the "revenge movie", as it manages to portray a truly suspenseful and frightening atmosphere on the very limited space of home computers. Still, it is a bit of very simple "fun", which is fine to watch, but doesn’t require you to do a lot of thinking during (let alone about) the film. It's just a bit cheesy, but it's undeniably got its qualities. A better 3 stars. (15/02/2019)