Unfriended, the new-age horror thriller film, is set to release on April 17, but Eugenians can see a special screening of the movie this Thursday.
The Bijou Art Cinema will be having a free advanced screening of Unfriended on April 9 at 8:30 p.m. The free tickets are available at the door but it’s first come, first served, so be sure to get there early.
Unfriended was directed by Levan Gabriadze and stars actors Cal Barnes, Matthew Bohrer and Courtney Halverson.
The story follows a group of high school students on a Skype chat room who are being terrorized by the ghost of their former classmate Laura Barns. After footage of Barns passed out drunk surfaced on the internet and became viral, she was cyber-bullied until she eventually committed suicide.
This new movie contributes to a newer genre of horror implementing technology and social media being key parts of its plot, and with the switch to having a film surround the complexities of social media reveal all of our subconscious fear: losing privacy.
With most people in our demographic having social media, we are outraged when a friend posts an embarrassing or inappropriate photo in fear of a future employer or a family member seeing it.
A majority of the film was shot on a Skype-like interface with “each actor locked away in their room and we just (shot) for 85 minutes and the longest take that we did is the one in the movie,” said Nelson Grieves, producer and writer of Unfriended.
Check out the trailer here:

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