2004 Miss Teen USA Shelley Hennig plays the good girl Blaire in horror movie “Unfriended” -you know the rules right, about the good girl? Blaire is her, skyping with her boyfriend, his best buddy, two girls, and the geek on the year anniversary of the death of Linda Barns (Heather Sossaman) who was cyber bullied, when a troll, or something, interrupts their fun, posts pictures on their Facebook walls, and goes after them one by one in revenge. Linda’s ghost? 

All five friends have secrets, all have a lot of explaining to do, and, as the first teen to croak discovers, if you try to go off line… you die.

It is like the ultimate Facebook fight, and it is up to Russian Director Leo Gabriadze to keep this 82 minute movie, which occurs in real time all on skype or google plus or Facebook, with a spookiness you’d expect from Sleepy Hollow scriptwriter Nelson Greaves, moving. Though the story makes no sense at all, and doesn’t even try to explain how this all happened, there is a real friction to it, a real scariness and it may go back to our online vulnerability. There is something very intrusive about the internet, and about our deals with our PCs, which get viruses and refuse to work, that suddenly won’t refresh or crashes, we are not entirely in control of it, it can and does simply stop and we lose everything just like that.

“Unfriended” taps into that horror, it is like the entire movie says, what happens when you can’t control your PC? And if you’ve ever had a wonky PC, or when somebody is attacking your PC and ruining your life, well “Unfriended” turns the concept into a horror movie. A good one.

Grade: B