SXSW 2015: “Unfriended” Interview director… by CraveOnline
Unfriended is a bizarre new experimental horror film. It is perhaps the first feature-length film to be presented entirely through the perspective of Skype and webcams. The film is about a group of teens who get stalked and killed by a mysterious (supernatural?) killer, all while watching one another on a massive Skype call.
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The film’s writer, Nelson Greaves, and its director Levan Gabriadze, were kind enough to hunker down with CraveOnline‘s own William “Bibbs” Bibbiani to talk about their movie, the unique challenges is posed to them, and how an online-only, chatroom-based slasher film is merely the next step in the genre’s evolution. Horror is no longer vicious, but conducted because it’s funny. And that can be chilling.
Unfriended downloads into theaters on April 17, 2015.
Official Synopsis:
Ushering in a new era of horror, Universal Pictures’ Unfriended unfolds over a teenager’s computer screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure who seeks vengeance for a shaming video that led a vicious bully to kill herself a year earlier.
After Universal executives saw a test screening of Unfriended terrify a test audience, the studio acquired the thriller that was developed and conceived by visionary filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter). Directed by Levan Gabriadze, Unfriended is written by Nelson Greaves, produced by Bekmambetov and Greaves, and executive produced by Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions (Ouija and Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series).
Witney Seibold is a contributor to the CraveOnline Film Channel, and co-host of The B-Movies Podcast. You can follow him on “Twitter” at @WitneySeibold, where he is slowly losing his mind.
