So perhaps it was inevitable that we get to “Unfriended,” the first major motion picture apparently designed to be seen on a computer. The film’s gimmick — and it’s an effective one ...

Back in 2014, when the computer-based “Unfriended” was released, the kind of online menace we could imagine was mostly bullying — an anonymous mob unleashed online. That was even the ...

A film like the original Unfriended, which was all about the way that cruel people interact online, and make each other’s lives a living hell, was a novel albeit lowbrow attempt to transform ...

"Unfriended," a horror thriller from the Russian producer-director team of Timur Bekmambetov and Levan Gabriadze, is part of a long, proud tradition of visual gimmickry pressed into service on ...

Of all the fantasies that Hollywood serves up for us every week, there is one myth that is the most consistently unrealistic across genres, budgets, and countries of origin: our supposedly casual ...

Set entirely on a MacBook screen, with a story told via Skype, Facebook and chat programs, the first Unfriended looked like the most extreme possible expression of found footage horror.

[Ed. note: If you are reading this after Oct. 15, Unfriended is no longer on Netflix. But good news, movie watcher with good taste! It is now on the Criterion Channel, and available on VOD.] ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the internet has fundamentally reshaped life, the world, and maybe even how we perceive reality. So why have so few movies these past few decades reckoned with ...

Filmmakers inevitably came for the computer screen and that was 2014’s “Unfriended,” a new-age found-footage horror movie unfolding exclusively on a desktop screen. The unexpected commercial ...