Friend Request is an attempt to get the Halloween crowd a few weeks early, but it's the type of invitation you should just ignore.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 8, 2021

Friend Request won't go down in history as great horror cinema but it will provide above-average returns for those seeking frights and thrills in the dark with their friends and sweethearts.

| Dec 11, 2020

Functional, if uninspired.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 1, 2020

Friend Request is more frustrating than outright disappointing, because you can see glimpses of promising concepts. It's the follow through where things fall apart.

| May 14, 2020

This is so far the worst movie I've seen all year. More than Wish Upon and somehow worse than Transformers: The Last Knight but this has achieved it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Nothing is original, everything stolen from well-established horror properties from The Exorcist to Halloween 2 to A Nightmare On Elm Street.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 3, 2019

Friend Request reads like a baby boomer's campfire story about the internet based off his granddaughter ignoring him on a long car ride while she tries out new Snapchat filters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Sometimes it's fun to just sit back and let a movie jump-scare you for 95 minutes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 21, 2019

As much as I found it funny that Laura seemed to care more about videos being posted to her page then she did about her friends dying, nothing about it made any sense.

| Mar 3, 2019

Emotionally empty and highlighted with sophomoric dialogue and lame twitches, denying this Friend Request is the next best thing to embracing an enemy on your Twitter account.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 11, 2019

You suck, Friend Request. Delete your account.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 11, 2019

It succeeds at delivering scares, surprises and some effective imagery, and for those jonesing for genre, it should suffice.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 28, 2018

Just in time for Halloween, this up-to-date horror film might make you think twice before you "friend" someone you don't know. And that's not a bad lesson to learn.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2018

Friend Request is not only socially irresponsible, it is boring and unimaginative.

| Aug 20, 2018

When the best thing about your movie is its unfamiliar location, you know you have a problem.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 24, 2018

The more I talk about it, the more absurd the premise sounds. The movie is a big jump-scare fest.

| Jan 24, 2018

Friend Request lets its loaded topics lay flaccid, working against itself.

| Jan 19, 2018

Friend Request is an incompetent, ghastly looking, woodenly acted, unintentionally howlingly hilarious, nonsensical mess of a fright feature

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2017

Derivative and focusing on tedium rather than authentic scares, or even a point, Friend Request benignly works through the beats of its supernatural social media premise.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 18, 2017

Lacking genuine scares, smarts or suspense, this Friend Request should be denied and blocked.

| Original Score: D- | Nov 4, 2017