Friend Request - Film (Week 28)

Crew:
Director - Simon Verhoeven
Producer - Quirin Burg & Max Wiedemann
Writer - Matthew Ballen & Phillip Koch & Simon Verhoeven 
Cinematographer - Jo Heim
Music - Gary Go

Cast:
Laura - Alycia Debnam-Carey
Tyler - William Moseley
Koby - Connor Paolo
Marina - Liesl Ahlers
Olivia - Britt Morgan

Genre:
Horror
Thriller

Themes:
Friendship
Fear
Death
Loneliness

Year:
2016

Running Time:
92 minutes

Budget:
N/A
Box Office:
N/A

Production Company:
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion
Seven Pictures

Narrative:
When a college student unfriends a mysterious girl online, she finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her closest friends.
The film has a circular and non-linear narrative to it. At the start of the film, the audience do not know what is going on, then there is a flashback so the story is explained. The end of the film turns into a circular narrative. This brings a very good twist and ending to the story, and personally i felt very satisfied with the ending. 

Analysis:
The music and sound effects within this film fits all the conventions of a horror films. The silence during eerie scene within the film was very intense and raw. The sudden crescendo of music when there is a jump scare makes the moment much more frightening for the audience because just moments before, there was practically no sound at all. The silence pulled the audience in, knowing something will happen, and because there was silence in the film, the audience join in and become silent too.