Friend Request is also one of the rare films to get released in the United States relatively late in the game.
Throw in a few jump scares and a handful of screen-within-a-screen moments and Friend Request seems to be checking all the right boxes for that post-millennial generation.
The general consensus seems to be that, while Friend Request is nothing particularly special as far as horror films go, it does manage to blend together some effective scares with a creative use of social media as a backdrop.
This approach has worked like gangbusters in movies like The Ring to Unfriended, both well-regarded horror films that use new media as a way to scare impressionable teenagers.
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