Synopsis
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
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Cast
- Alycia Debnam-CareyLaura
- Connor PaoloKobe
- William MoseleyTyler
- Brit MorganOlivia
- Brooke MarkhamIsabel
- Sean MarquetteGustavo
- Liesl AhlersMarina
- Nicholas PaulingOfficer Dempsey
- Shashawnee HallDet. Cameron
- Susan DanfordCaroline
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Tribune
It's the highest praise to describe Friend Request as "a hoot" — the kind of midnight movie best seen with a large crowd laughing and screaming along, offering words of advice or encouragement to the naive characters on screen. - 60
We Got This Covered
Obvious and sometimes aggravating no doubt, but still effective in raising blood pressure given a backstory so instilled with old-school cultism. - 60
Empire
Friend Request keeps up the pace and throws in a few neat twists to keep the plot from stagnating. - 60
Time Out London
Social media has never been so scary. - 50
IndieWire
Friend Request packs some fun scares and twists, but it’s a film best saved for a late-night Netflix binge when nothing better is on. - 40
Total Film
CGI wasps and coloured contact lenses aren’t as terrifying as director Simon Verhoeven seems to think, and all the loud bangs in the world can’t hide the lack of tension. - 40
The Guardian
It’s slickly made but shoddily scripted, with sub-reality TV dialogue...and a range of unengaged, soapy performances. There is some fun to be had from the loud and nasty death scenes though, which allow us the pleasure of seeing self-absorbed Facebook addicts get gruesomely murdered. - 37
Washington Post
Despite a few well-timed jump scares, Friend Request never really builds much tension.
