Stephen Susco
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Perhaps the most discussed aspect of Unfriended: Dark Web is extratextual: its distributor, Blumhouse (or to be exact, BH Tilt, its sub-distributor) put the film out with two distinct endings (previously unbeknownst to cast and crew, reportedly): Ending A and Ending B. To my knowledge, this is the first time a major motion picture has done such a thing since Clue in 1985, which, in a meta-textual stroke, was released into cinemas by Paramount Pictures with one of three different endings attached to each print.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Directed by John Erick Dowdle
influenced Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
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There is a genuine chill to a few of the deaths that is reminiscent of found footage movies like “The Poughkeepsie Tapes.”
Eventually others would pick up this technologically driven subspecies of ‘found footage’, leading to films like Zachary Donohue’s The Den (aka Hacked, 2013), Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows (2014), Leo Gabriadze’s Unfriended (2014), Branden Kramer’s Ratter (2015), Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching (2018), Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile (2018) and Stephen Susco’s Unfriended: Dark Web (2018).
Delving into the depths of the Dark Web, UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB is a natural fit for writer/director Susco who up until this point was best known as screenwriter for “The Grudge” franchise as well as screenwriter/producer for “The Possession.”