UNFRIENDED is one of those novel productions which takes place entirely on a computer monitor. As such, the realism is decent and the attention to detail on bringing to life the various social media accounts very good. What a shame, then, that the story is so predictable and familiar, another spin on the RING-style ghost story, and the characters so severely irritating. After half an hour of increasingly repetitive nonsense, I was itching to switch off a production that had become full of incessant screaming, shouting, random ad-libbing, and overacting from an over-eager cast.

Fresno, California high school girl Laura Barns is harassed by a video of her pass-out drunk at a party until she killed herself. Some time later, her friend Blaire Lily (Shelley Hennig) and Blaire's boyfriend Mitch Roussel (Moses Storm) are video chatting. Unbeknownst to them, somebody is watching them. They are joined by friends Jess Felton (Renee Olstead),computer whiz Ken Smith (Jacob Wysocki),and Adam Sewell (Will Peltz). They notice the unwanted intruder. They call up Val Rommel (Courtney Halverson). The unknown caller "billie227" start using the friends' deepest darkest secrets to force them to play a deadly game.

The in-computer footage idea has some positives but I still want some of the scenes in the real world. I still want the kills outside of the computer screen. The in-computer stuff is able translate the cyber bullying better. There has to be a happy mix with them both. It's too relentless in its concept and it gets a little tiresome at times.

"Cybernatural", also known as "Unfriended" is a 77-minute (without credits) movie from last year. It's the first English language movie with an American cast by Georgian director Levan Gabriadze and the writer is Nelson Greaves who also worked on the new television series "Sleepy Hollow". The pretty short movie here is basically almost entirely a recording of a camera and text chat between several friends online. A girl committed suicide a while ago after a humiliating video was posted and all of a sudden her social media account shows activity again and communicates with the people we see during this web-cam chat. The rest is pretty generic for horror films. Hidden secrets about betrayal and cheating surface. They get killed one by one and we all witness the action as if we are a member of this group of friends. The actors are all fairly unknown, but admittedly they also do not have to show great performances to make this work. And I think it does work, mostly because of the interesting details included in here, such as how people chat to other people apart from the web-cam chat as well or just the little things that got used convincingly in terms of chats. The makers certainly knew very well about the main location of this movie. And there also is some pretty dark humor in this one, such as the ad which shows up near the end or the stills that are displayed every time somebody is killed, stills on which the person in question looks so happy having a good time, pretty much the exact opposite of what is happening in reality right now. No great movie, but a good one I might say. Recommended.