Unfriended: Dark Web Review
6 / 10. Difficult to follow everything happening on screen, but an enjoyable, cleverly put together thriller
Unfriended: Dark Web is a horror film written and directed by Stephen Susco.
Matias finds a laptop at a cyber cafe lost-and-found, and foolishly takes it home. He is working on a sign language app for his deaf girlfriend, Amaya (Stephanie Nogueras), and then uses the laptop to log onto a Skype video call with his group of friends. Events take a dark turn as Matias keeps getting messages from someone demanding the laptop back, and the group realise the laptop is connected to the dark web and they are all in danger.
The film is shot as a computer screen and it can be difficult to follow everything happening on screen, with the separate video boxes with different characters and IMs popping up, and can make your eyes go loopy
All the squabbling between characters at the same time in the group chat gave me a headache, and most of the characters were annoying, especially the hapless Matias (Colin Woodell) and irksome AJ (Connor Del Rio), but that’s common for this kind of film. Andrew Lees as Damon and Betty Gabriel as Nari gave the most believable performances. The inclusion of a deaf character, Amaya, added an interesting dynamic.
There were a few twists along the way, some were a bit predictable, but the story kept up a good, thrilling pace.
It was different to other films of this type as it was not quite a found footage film and the different viewpoints made it fun to watch, overall Unfriended: Dark Web is an enjoyable, cleverly put together thriller.