[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Unfriended ★★

This was an interesting experience. The film is fascinating and frustrating, innovative and irritating.

Unfriended isn't a typical film, certainly not one which is like anything I've ever seen before. It takes place entirely on someone's computer screen, with the events unfolding through video chat, Facebook messaging, Google searches, YouTube and other such Internet activity. With each character having something to do with the suicide of one of their friends a year ago following the posting of a highly embarrassing video on YouTube.

The characters could be taken from a slasher film, making this a version of I Know What You Did Last Summer, yet instead of telling them not to run upstairs would they should be going out the front door, I was repeatedly wondering why none of them turned the computer off and went to check friends in the real world. Maybe that's a commentary on modern social interactions and the impersonal nature of modern day communication or maybe it's just way to make a film. It could be a bit of both.

I genuinely can't think of a single character I actually liked, so that didn't help with engaging me on an emotional level – I carried on watching because it was a little like watching a murder mystery and try to figure out 'whodunnit'. When it finished, I didn't feel any sense of catharsis or happiness, if anything it was probably a relief that it was all over!