The premise of marrying contemporary social media with ancient witchcraft has some promise, but essentially Friend Request is fairly standard stalk-and-slash, with the usual reliance on VERY loud stings for a couple of jump scares, but also with the occasional visual and editing flourish that shows the film is striving for more. Apart from some very good work by Connor Paolo as one of the group of friends, the acting offers little of note, and the increasingly wobbly internal logic only adds to the overall sense of unevenness. By the time it reaches its utterly and almost necessarily predictable final scene, this film demonstrates that you can dress up the genre with contemporary trappings but it still basically remains the same.
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