A trailer has just premiered for Unfriended, a horror film that takes place on Skype.
It’s always exciting when horror films find a way to work within the genre in fresh and exciting ways, and it looks like Unfriended will be one of those films.
The premise looks pretty simple: a teenage girl kills herself after being bullied online and one year later joins her old friends’ Skype call and begins to haunt them.
The idea of using computers in a horror film isn’t completely original, but it seems as if the way Unfriended uses the entire screen with different people on Skype will be very effective. It’s certainly gripping in the two and a half minute trailer.
Unfriended premiered last July at the Fantasia International Film Festival (with the title Cybernatural) and the few reviews out of the festival ranged from mixed to positive, and we have to think that’s pretty promising.
The what looks to be pretty low budget horror film was created by Timur Bekmambetov. It was written by Nelson Greaves and directed by Levan Gabriadze, and the cast includes Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, Heather Sossaman.
MTV will be releasing Unfriended on April 17, 2015 in a wide theatrical release.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Ushering in a new era of horror, Universal Pictures’ Unfriended unfolds over a teenager’s computer screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure who seeks vengeance for a shaming video that led a vicious bully to kill herself a year earlier.
A poster was also released:
