The gist: the story recommended horror fans check this film out, since Neflix was due to kick its ass out in a few days.....
So I did, aware it fell into that sub-genre of "on line horror", taking place entirely in the wild west frontier of cyberspace (zoom meetings, facebook posts, twitter rants, youtube videos, yada, yady yada...
At least I'm thankful the article recommended viewing the film on a laptop, for a more fully immersive experience. (as if you're one of the characters in the film....) On a medium sized flatscreen I'm not sure I could've caught all the make believe Google searches and whatnot.....
Now let's all turn the clock back 9 years and crash a zoom chat with bunch of millennial college students.....all stuck to their social media accounts as if welded to their laptops.....and all possessing I.Q.s somewhere between a carrot and Marjorie Taylor Greene......
One of their old pals felt bullied and agonized enough to shoot herself....live on YouTube. The survivors try to make sense of the tragedy, but their on line confab picked up an uninvited participant....the pissed-as-hell, still dead friend, back from the grave and ready to rumble her old buddies right into the afterlife with her.....
Here's the point at which you start to wonder why don't these self-absorbed dopes close their laptops and move on to the actual adventure of living their lives untethered from social media......
Ah, but then we wouldn't have a movie, would we?
Therefore this confederacy of dunces stay glued to their screens, driven into terrified hysteria as Evil Dead Friend somehow provokes them into gory suicides, one by one. And while on their merry way to agonized deaths, they feel compelled to reveal all many their toxic betrayals of each other, ....(as if we didn't already hold a low enough opinion of them.....
I won't go on, other than mentioning, if you take on-line junk out of the equation, all that's really left here is a bottom-of-the-barrel, Friday date night horror film........comprised of massively stupid young people making massively stupid choices that the audience knows will lead to them splattered on the wall....
Zero stars (0).....it makes YouTube videos of piano playing cats seem like Academy Award winners......Don't befriend it.....
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