Unfriended

Unfriended
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLeo Gabriadze
Written byNelson Greaves
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAdam Sidman
Edited by
  • Parker Laramie
  • Andrew Wesman
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • July 20, 2014 (2014-07-20) (Fantasia)
  • April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[2]
Box office$62.9 million[3]

Unfriended (originally titled Cybernatural) is a 2014 American screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. Set on a computer screen, the film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson as six high school students in a Skype conversation which is haunted by a student, played by Heather Sossaman, who was bullied by them and committed suicide. The film is told almost entirely through a screencast of a MacBook.

The film premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 20, 2014, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures in the United States on April 17, 2015. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and was a massive box-office success, grossing $62.9 million against a $1 million budget. A stand-alone sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, was released in 2018.

  1. ^ "UNFRIENDED (15)". British Board of Film Classification. April 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  2. ^ Pamela McClintock (April 15, 2015). "Box Office Preview: 'Paul Blart 2,' 'Unfriended' No Match for 'Furious 7'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Unfriended at Box Office Mojo