This is a movie that relies on Facebook as its motor, but the script must have been full of 404-Page Not Founds. We’ll never know if it was Verhoeven or his co-writers Matthew Ballen and Philip Koch who came up with the kooky cops, or the scene where a death is declared a suicide even though there’s no body, or the campus memorial where two close friends are eulogized alongside a weirdo outsider just because they all happened to die on the same week. Maybe it’s a language thing: Director Simon Verhoeven (son of “The Nasty Girl” director Michael Verhoeven and actress Senta Berger) is making his first feature in English, and perhaps that would explain why even the film’s intended comic relief (two bumbling detectives who are in thoroughly over their heads as the body count climbs) are mishandled so badly that even the scenes that are supposed to be funny only generate laughs because they’re so very not-funny.Īlso Read: Alycia Debnam-Carey on Fans, 'Fear The Walking Dead' and Leaving Behind 'The 100' If nothing else, this supposed horror movie ranks among the most unintentionally funny films of late, starting with the periodic on-screen appearance of the heroine’s Facebook friend count as it spirals downward, which is presented as equivalent to the tragedy of a string of murders. The silly but effective “Unfriended,” that 2014 thriller about a vengeful ghost killing off her high school tormentors one by one in a Skype chat room, was no classic, but it’s looking more like one when compared to “Friend Request,” an utterly idiotic movie that uses social media as a conduit for witchcraft and mayhem.
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