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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshIt's the highest praise to describe Friend Request as "a hoot" — the kind of midnight movie best seen with a large crowd laughing and screaming along, offering words of advice or encouragement to the naive characters on screen.
- 60We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoObvious and sometimes aggravating no doubt, but still effective in raising blood pressure given a backstory so instilled with old-school cultism.
- 60Time Out LondonKate LloydTime Out LondonKate LloydSocial media has never been so scary.
- CGI wasps and coloured contact lenses aren’t as terrifying as director Simon Verhoeven seems to think, and all the loud bangs in the world can’t hide the lack of tension.
- 40The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s slickly made but shoddily scripted, with sub-reality TV dialogue...and a range of unengaged, soapy performances. There is some fun to be had from the loud and nasty death scenes though, which allow us the pleasure of seeing self-absorbed Facebook addicts get gruesomely murdered.
- 25Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe viewer anticipates satire from such a sociologically loaded premise, but director Simon Verhoeven and co-writers Matthew Ballen and Philip Koch predictably utilize Facebook for the purpose of superficially spit-shining another wanly Americanized J-horror retread.
- 25Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWith no real suspense and little empathy, Friend Request devolves into your standard horror cast-killer time-killer. There are more frights in the trailers for upcoming Halloween horror films preceding this — “Jigsaw” and “Happy Death Day” among them.