10 Awesome Horror Movies With No Sympathetic Characters
10. Unfriended (2014)
Internet found footage flick Unfriended sees a group of highschoolers' night take a deadly twist when an anonymous user hijacks their Skype call claiming to be the ghost of Laura Barns, a classmate who killed themselves exactly one year earlier.
The group initially believe the user to be a prank, but they soon realise the horrifying truth when the vengeful ghost begins to pick the teenagers off one at a time.
As the night goes on, Laura forces the teens to admit their horrible secrets which expose them as being even more obnoxious and self-obsessed than they appeared. Most egregious of all, though, is that each of the friends were directly involved in some way with Laura's bullying and death.
The worst offender is protagonist Blaire (Shelley Hennig), who desperately appeals to Laura about how close they used to be. However, in a final twist the ghost reveals that Blaire was the one who posted the original humiliating viral video which sparked the intense bullying that would lead Laura to taking her own life.
Alongside its clever take on the found footage genre, Unfriended likewise uses its cast of truly awful teenagers to tell an all-too-real allegory of the horrors of cyberbullying.