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Directed by | Leo Gabriadze |
Written by | Nelson Greaves |
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Cinematography | Adam Sidman |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 83 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.