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Don't Bother Seeing This

The first 15-30 minutes of the movie was an exercise in tedium and it's unbearable.

The dialogue between Blaire and her boyfriend are cringe-inducing and seemed like it was ad-libbed by people who don't need to ad-libbing ("You're kinda sexy when you're violent." What.)

Until the 30 minute mark, it's just dumb teenagers saying dumb teenage shit and doing dumb teenage stuff.

It's clear that people involved in this movie had no idea how Skype works, because there are moments when Blaire moves from the Skype screen to check messages and the chat automatically mutes.

None of these characters are likable. None. All of them are assholes, back-stabbing, gossiping pieces of shit. There wasn't a redeeming quality to any of the characters, hence my hope that they all died by the end of the film. If we were to go by the characters words, Laura was like this before he died and it takes all sympathy out the window when you learn the 'victim' was like on of the bullies.

(Though it could be them trying to trash talk her after death, and if that's the case, see above statement.)

There's a moment where the ghost forces them to play Never Have I Ever, and the character start to argue about the dumbest shit and it really made me wish I could punch them.

There's a moment where the ghost flat out tells them what they have to do to live and they couldn't even do that right.

Really with the gimmick (the whole movie taking place through Skype) is about the only thing this movie has going for it. And even that doesn't work for it. You could easily replace Skype with a phone, a tv, or Ouija board and have the same generic horror movie.

I honestly feel like this would be better as a short 30 minute movie, then as a 85 minute movie.