UNFRIENDED (2014)

Taking place in real time on the desktop of popular high school girl Blaire (Shelley Hennig), Unfriended is off and running when Blaire and boyfriend Mitch (Moses Storm) have their flirty Skype session interrupted by friends Jess (Renee Olstead), Adam (Will Peltz), Ken (Jacob Wysocki) ... and a fourth person, sans Skype name or avatar, who claims to be fellow classmate Laura Barns, who killed herself a year ago.  First seen as a bad joke, it quickly becomes clear - as Laura's taunts become threatening - that whether human or supernatural, someone is out to expose the secrets of this group of friends ... and punish them for their deeds.  Unfriended works amazingly well; maybe because I actually watched it on my laptop, I loved the in-your-face intensity of the film; how it so connected you to what was going on, even the "unfriend" option gone missing from a Facebook profile page becomes unsettling.  Original, fun and genuinely creepy, this is a low budget thriller that feeds into our intimacy with the internet - and the fact that none of us has any real privacy on it. (rated R)  B