![]() ![]() Meet Laura (Debnam-Carey), a popular college student taking some vague class on Internet Addiction Disorder or something, who befriends the shy, perpetually hoodied Marina (Ahlers), who subsequently becomes obsessed with Laura. ![]() Which brings us to Friend Request, a film whose thesis statement seems to be “Never befriend the outcast lest you be plagued by demons.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in this new class of millennial horror films revolving around particular aspects of social media ( Unfriended, #Horror). ![]() From the telephone ( When a Stranger Calls) to computers ( Brainscan, The Lawnmower Man), these devices figure prominently in a subgenre that turns the latest advancements of the future into cautionary tales of a society gone too far. Horror films have always used technology as a catalyst for terror. ![]()
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