After the suicide of her best friend Laura Barns, who was the victim of cyber-harassment when a drunken video surfaced online, Blaire Lily gets her life back on track. That is until she skypes with her boyfriend Mitch and their friends Jess, Ken and Adam, and a mysterious person adds themselves to the conversation to reveal each of their secrets. The teens soon realize Laura has come back from the dead to seek revenge …

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A kind of Scream intro expanded to 1:15 to resemble an episode Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars. With unlikeable, stereotypical teens and a phoned-in script, this movie is an ad for Skype, Gmail and their ilk, pretending to be a warning about social media when really it’s not about much at all. More assembled than directed by Levan Gabriadze, Unfriended is an attempt at the found footage genre but instead joins the ranks of the boring, the vapid and the stolen-from-many-a-better-movie. It is also proof that splicing together bits of film is harder than it looks. Although the premise is interesting, this movie only underlines that fact that the audience is stuck on one giant 2.0 split screen, with no suspense to relieve the boredom. A better tip is to watch Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrifying Pulse, a much better movie about the potential terrors of the web.