10 Already Released 2015 Horror Films You Should Watch This Halloween

3. Unfriended

The premise for Unfriended sounds like the recipe for a terrible movie. It's essentially a slasher movie, in which a group of teens are stalked and killed by a largely unseen, potentially supernatural menace. However, the crucial selling point of Unfriended is that the entire story is confined within the computer screen of the protagonist, played with wide-eyed terror through a webcam by Ouija star Shelley Hennig. Despite its seemingly rather simple gimmick, Unfriended is a wildly inventive horror movie. Hopping between the central Skype chat between a group of friends and various other social media pages, there's a decent pace kept to the action. The scenes of violent death are given real ingenuity, far beyond the standard shaky cam nonsense that the found footage genre has made ubiquitous in recent years. After well over a decade of cinema trying to find a way to make cyber-horror happen, Unfriended managed it by keeping things naturalistic €” much of the dialogue was improvised €” and incredibly simple. It has a final scare that serves no real purpose and some of the performances falter a little, but Unfriended is a genuinely scary film that rises above its potentially silly premise. From humble roots, it has managed to become one of the best horror films of the year.