UNFRIENDED .... like it or post it

It's good news that horror genre has been surprisingly refreshing this year so far and "Unfriended" (2015), a new horror film that sets a new narrative and suspense for the new generations is definitely one film that is worth to see. Ok, first of all why? well, basically because as we know, teenagers have been the object of mutilation in classics like "Halloween" (1978), "Friday the 13th" (1980), "Nightmare on elm street" (1984), where a killer haunted all these innocent and horny teenagers to spill their blood all around the screen. But things have changed and they are no more running into the woods, or going to summer camps, or having sleep overs. These days new generations are spending their time online.

Yes, the game has changed as a new era has emerged based in the new online communication creating social media where they can post photos, share they thoughts or whatever they are doing, even if no one cares but then eventually everybody will know, or having cam sessions with friends just to chat. The new communication skills is based in a new language capable to be written faster and based in a slang that fits all this social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, youtube, etc. So human contact has been delayed to a bunch of text messages, Face times, and likes and posts. So what all of this says about these new generations that we don't know already? or why they made it part of a horror movie?

Well all this new tools to communicate might bring a new system and new slang but that doesn't mean they will change human behavior. In fact, proves are that we are becoming more impersonal and our social skills have been frozen as any emoticon. Far away seemed those days where girls where trying to lose their virginity and guys were athletic jocks. Now girls have as much sex as any guy but hey, if you don't keep it for yourself still will be judged and guys are popular for being jerks capable of get you any drug at the party. Now nerds and geeks are consider popular as this is their world, they know all this tech stuff so everyone likes to have one around and even they are not funny they can be rude and accepted.

So where are we going with all this? No one wants to win competitions at school cause nobody cares but trying to post a pic of last night party or a perfect view from the city or your dinner will get you hundreds of likes, meaning, you are popular, even you don't know all this people but makes you care about them and their actions. So every time we go online, we share our life to others, friends and strangers. When having great time gets overwhelming to see others support you but when making the wrong choices can push your limits and ruin your social life. Right there is where this movie fits. A girl killed herself after being ciber bulled with a video posted by her supposedly friends where she gets drunk and more. Now seems that revenge will take care of their of them.

Talking about the movie, it might not have the narrative we are use to, to be consider a serious film, or the acting will bring breakthrough performances, even they won't be scary scenes that will keep you awake all night but definitely brings a new kind of suspense that keep you edging for more than an hour on your seat while you watching in the screen what would be the screen of anyones computer. The scary part comes from these characters that as they start to being exposed, they show their true colors and friendships starts to get a new meaning. The fact that you are sharing your life with all these people doesn't mean you know them and everybody like the attention, so our beloved teenagers with their lack of experience and maturity to not take themselves serious, make poor decisions in order to get the best hash tag or visits to their pages. Proving that being able to write a text doesn't mean what you writing won't mean it and that keeping a doble life on and offline doesn't mean that things won't get noticed, specially for those you are supposed to care about and sooner and later evidence will reach you from any source.

As truth keeps surfing, the scariest all of them become, admitting all their mistakes, jokes, made just because were trying to be funny or follow the rest, not caring about the meaning or consequences of their words or actions, so what can you expect from a relationship based on lies? can you really call them friends if you can't trust them or you just want to trust them even if thats not an option. Of course we got a couple of gore scenes that just serve to give you an idea of the fatal ending they are pursuing but not using it as the movie structure which is very well appreciated. So if you over age 26 and wondering what are all those weird names, pages we just talked about, or want to learn the new code among younger people, or don't know what a troll online means, or just enjoy seeing and remember those old days when we all made poor decisions based on our lack of popularity and trying to feel accepted, you might learn one thing or two about your Facebook friends and those in real life.