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Friend Request
A renowned college student graciously accepts a social outcast's online friend request, but realized she has just invited a demon that would assault her friends.
29 May 1991, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
15 November 1975
24 September 1987, Marlton, New Jersey, USA
27 December 1961, Savannah, Georgia, USA
30 June 1988, Dallas, Texas, USA
11 July 1990, New York City, New York, USA
April 25, 2016
The dread this could engender is not too strong and although there is some gore, it is not horribly horror-ific and is probably best suited to teen horror newbies. Genre aficionados might find it rather tame.
April 22, 2016
A movie that yields line like 'unfriend this dead bitch' has a certain camp appeal but this is an unpleasant and manipulative affair that makes increasingly grim viewing.
July 20, 2016
Friend Request is an above average social media themed horror movie that entertains throughout, with enough jump scares to keep your heartbeat racing, and a few unintentionally funny moments thrown in for good measure.
April 24, 2016
Despite an overreliance on loud bangs, director Simon Verhoeven pulls off a couple of chills ...
December 05, 2016
Friend Request may be a little heavy-handed with their jump scares, but when built effectively, screams are an easy find.
April 27, 2016
Although there are some fun jolts and gruesome shocks to be had, Friend Request struggles to find anything new to say, feeling instead like something you'd half-remembered from a decade ago.
April 19, 2016
The kind of horror movie you probably watched at a sleepover as a teenager.
December 04, 2016
It isn't terrible, which is as close to praise as I'm willing to get.
September 21, 2016
It's all very glossy and shallow, but there are some genuinely creepy animated sequences (purportedly the work of Liesl Ahlers' weird Gothic outsider) and some effective jump scares.
January 03, 2017
All in all, there really isn't anything new in this film. Rather, it's a very standard horror film which attempts to be modern by incorporating social media deeply into its lack-of-plot.
March 01, 2017
Tthe characters of Friend of Request are equally unmemorable with almost everyone failing to rise above the absurdity and downright idiocy of the script.
