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Unfriended: Dark Web is more interested in chills than an exploration of its timely themes, but horror fans should still find this sequel to be steadily, undeniably effective. Read Critics...
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Jul 20, 2018 · Like its 2014 predecessor, "Unfriended: Dark Web" is a deeply misanthropic horror film that follows a group of hapless Millennials—through realistic-looking video footage of their computer screens—as they are cyber-terrorized by a mysterious group of internet trolls/killers.
- The internet is a terrifying place... except in this horror movie.
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By William Bibbiani
Updated: Jul 26, 2018 5:48 pm
Posted: Jul 16, 2018 9:00 pm
Considering how much time we each spend on the internet - don’t deny it, you’re reading a review on the internet right now - it only makes sense that the internet would inform the way we make movies. A film like the original Unfriended, which was all about the way that cruel people interact online, and make each other’s lives a living hell, was a novel albeit lowbrow attempt to transform everyday technology into something entertainingly scary.
The sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, takes the visual gimmick from the original film and removes all the relevancy. Instead of a story about how we interact online, it’s a story about cardboard twenty-somethings stumbling onto a murder cult in a convoluted story that relies on more on coincidences than logic.
Unfriended: Dark Web stars Colin Woodell (Unsane) as Matias, a programmer who steals a laptop from the lost and found at work, and discovers - while in the middle of an online game night with his friends - that the hard drive is full. 960 gigabytes are hidden away, in a folder he cannot delete, and when he finally finds the file and opens it… it’s full of snuff films.
Unfriended: Dark Web turns the internet into a boring boogeyman, where everything your grandparents warned you about is 100% real, and everyone online is too dunderheaded to notice until it’s too late. The scares are ridiculous, the plot makes no sense, and you’ll probably spend the whole running time wishing someone would spill a drink on their ke...
- William Bibbiani
Jul 19, 2018 · Review. Unfriended: Dark Web Weaponizes Our Fear of the Internet. The chilling sequel to the 2014 hit Unfriended trades the original’s supernatural twists for all-too-recognizable terror. By...
- K. Austin Collins
Mar 11, 2018 · Unfriended: Dark Web has some fantastic twists (one is ripped directly from the end of the first season of FX’s Fargo; the rest are all fair and all genuinely surprising), but it’s about as...
- Kaitlyn Tiffany
With a believable concept that is told in a personal and terrifying way, Unfriended: Dark Web is a solid and very scary horror film. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2019
Jul 19, 2018 · A preview of the film. The writer Stephen Susco makes his feature directing debut here, but he’s an old hand at tricky contemporary horror, having written the 2004 United States remake of “The...
