FRIEND REQUEST (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alycia Debnam-Carey (Into The Storm), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe), Connor Paolo (World Trade Center), Brit Morgan (Freeloaders), Brooke Markham (Dying to Kill), Sean Marquette (13 Going On 30), Liesl Ahlers (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Simon Verhoeven (Men in the City), director, writer; Matthew Ballen (film debut) and Philip Koch (Outside theBox), writers; Quirin Berg (The Lives of Others) and Max Wiedemann (Who Am I), producers; Gary Go (Love’s Kitchen), composer; Jo Heim (Complete Idiot), cinematographer; Denis Bachter (A Family of Three), Felix Schmerbeck (film debut) and Tom Seil (film debut), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Laura (Debnam-Carey), a popular college girl with over 800 friends on Facebook, receives and accepts a friend request from Marina (Ahlers), despite barely knowing who she even is. When a sinister series of events follow shortly afterwards that start to kill her friends, only Laura must uncover the truth about Marina before any more of them die…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

In a world where social media platforms are becoming more and more a part of our own existence, it was inevitable that a horror film surrounding itself around them – not unlike last year’s Unfriended – would arise to remind us of its drawbacks.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND APRIL 2016

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