I saw "Friend Request", starring Alycia Debnam_Carey-Fear the Walking Dead_tv, Into the Storm; William Moseley-The Royals_tv, The Chronicles of Narnia movies; Brit Morgan-Graceland_tv, True Blood_tv; Connor Paolo-Revenge_tv, Gossip Girl_tv and Liesl Ahlers-her first big screen movie. This is a cheap horror movie-that is about a year old, it was made in 2016-that tries to cash in on the popularity of Facebook and social media status. Alycia is a popular girl on the college campus- she has over 800 friends on-line. Liesl is a new girl that is the exact opposite of Alycia; she is not popular, has no friends and likes the occult. Alycia feels sorry for her and tries to be her friend, both in real life and on-line, but Liesl becomes clingy and goes psycho when Alycia unfriends her. The wrong thing to do to someone that dabbles in witchcraft. Liesl commits suicide in a ritual that causes major problems for Alycia & her friends. Brit and Connor are some of Alycia's friends-Liesl wants to make Alycia friendless-and William is Alycia's boyfriend. It's just not very scary, even though they use the old unexpected jump-at-the-screen trick to try and get a scare from you. It's rated "R" for violence, disturbing images and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 32 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. It would be alright as a rental.
Review of Friend Request
