Unfriended

THE GIST: A group of teens is meeting in an online chat room when they notice an unknown user, who's using the account of a girl who killed herself recently, after succumbing to cyberbullying. Unable to get rid of the user, who seems to know a great deal about all of them and is not shy about revealing their secrets to the group, they begin to think that it might be some kind of malevolent spirit that's haunting them.

Unfriended is definitely a movie tailor-made for the smartphone age, when everyone is online, privacy is but a memory, and stories of hacking into devices are all too common.

As a horror movie it works well enough to generate suspense and a good dose of fear. It's also told entirely from the perspective of the devices and services we've come to entrust with our lives so thoroughly. That's scary in and of itself.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Definitely recommended for the horror fans out there. It's not a classic, but it works on different levels that make it entertaining.

Grade: 7