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Triggered Trailer — Alastair Orr‘s Triggered (2020) movie trailer has been released by Samuel Goldwyn Films and stars Reine Swart, Liesl Ahlers, Russel Crous, Steven John Ward, Cameron Scott, Paige Bonnin, Kayla Privett, Suraya Rose Santos, Michael Lawrence Potter, Sean Cameron Michael, and Craig Urbani. Crew David D. Jones wrote the screenplay for Triggered. Andries Smit [...]

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Stars: Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart, Steven John Ward, Craig Urbani, Russell Crous, Sean Cameron Michael | Written by David D. Jones | Directed by Alastair Orr

Friendships are put to the test when nine former classmates on a reunion camping trip awake to find they’re locked into explosive vests with countdown timers on them. The only way to get more time? Kill each other…

Sometimes it’s unfortunate for filmmakers that the cast they put together can be, ultimately, unlikeable in the eyes of the audience. However in some cases, especially in horror films, having an unlikeable cast actually adds an extra dimension to your movie. Case in point, Triggered.

Directed by Alastair Orr, Triggered is the kind of film where instead of cheering on one of the characters to live, to survive in the face of adversity, to be victorious without stooping to the lows of killing, you essentially look...

Triggered Starring: Sean Cameron Michael, Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart Directed By: Alastair Orr Written By: David D. Jones Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with Suicide Bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide …

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Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the thriller/action/horror film, Triggered On Digital and On Demand November 6, 2020. Check out the trailer:

Triggered stars Sean Cameron Michael (“Black Sails,” The Mummy), Liesl Ahlers (Friend Request, Daylight) and Reine Swart (The Lullaby, Detour). The film was directed by Alastair Orr (House on Willow Street, Indigenous) and written by David D. Jones,making his feature screenwriting debut.

Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with Suicide Bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help – until they discover they can ‘take’ one another’s time by killing each other.

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Samuel Goldwyn Films has launched a new trailer for action-horror ‘Triggered’.

Nine friends, all harbouring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with Suicide Bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help – until they discover they can ‘take’ one another’s time by killing each other.

Directed by Alastair Orr, the film stars Sean Cameron Michael, Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart.

Also in trailers – Chilling new trailer arrives for ‘Kindred’

The film is set for an On-Demand and Digital release November 6th.

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"Been a long time since I've taught all of you... Tonight's your final lesson." Samuel Goldwyn has debuted an official trailer for an indie horror thriller called Triggered, not to be confused with the other horror film titled Triggered from just last year (can't they choose a different name?!). This film involves a crazy Saw-meets-Hunger-Games-esque concept - nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, wake up in the woods after a night of partying to discover they all have suicide bombs strapped to their chests, with different times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can "take" someone else's time by killing them. Uh oh. The film stars Sean Cameron Michael, Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart, Suraya Santos, Craig Urbani, and Steven John Ward. This is a wicked cool concept -...

FrightFest, the UK horror festival that was forced to move online this year because of pandemic disruption, has unveiled a lineup for its 21st edition (August 27-31) including seven world premieres.

The event opens with the UK premiere of Sky Sharks, which features Nazi zombie-piloted airborne killer sharks.

World premieres include Logan Thomas’s There’s No Such Thing As Vampires, Patrick Rea’s I Am Lisa, Ruben Pla’s The Horror Crowd, G-Hey Kim’s Don’t Click, Toby Watts’ Playhouse, Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly’s They’re Outside, and Francesco Giannini’s Hall.

Industry-focused events will include a panel hosted by Den Of Geek’s UK editor Rosie Fletcher about how the horror genre has been affected by the pandemic.

All online film screenings will be geo-locked to UK audiences and available through FrightFest’s website.

“We will desperately miss seeing all of you in person...

Today we're happy to debut an exclusive clip from the upcoming Blu-ray release of Friend Request, the horror film from Simon Verhoeven (Men in the City) that mixes black magic and social media. Friend Request features The 100 and Fear the Walking Dead star Alycia Debnam-Carey as a popular college student with an active social media life who unwittingly sets a terrible curse in motion when she accepts a friend request from a mysterious classmate Marina (Liesl Ahlers). Also starring William Mosely, Connor Paolo, and Brit Morgan, Friend Request arrives on Digital HD the 19th and Blu-…...

Hard to believe, but December is nearly upon us, and that means we have a brand new batch of Digital and VOD releases to look forward to over the next few weeks. And for those of you looking to indulge in some non-holiday cinematic delights next month, there seems to be quite a variety of films hitting VOD and other digital platforms to keep you cozy inside your home, away from the brutality of winter and its harsh elements.

December’s releases kick off on the 1st with Somebody’s Darling, and December 5th is one of the busiest days of the month with six different titles making their digital bow: The Gatehouse, The Doll Master, Apocalypse Road, Flashburn, K-shop, and The White King. Then, just a few days later, IFC Midnight is releasing the psychological thriller Kaleidoscope, and on December 12th, both The Cutlass and Flatliners (2017) come home.

IFC Midnight...

Social media can be a real time killer in everyday life, but in the horror film Friend Request, it kills more than just time. Following its September theatrical release (read our review here), Friend Request is coming to digital platforms this December and Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD in January from Lionsgate:

Press Release: Santa Monica, CA (November 14, 2017) – The consequences are deadly when black magic mixes with social media in Friend Request, arriving on Digital December 19 and on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and On Demand January 9 from Lionsgate. Alycia Debnam-Carey (“Fear the Walking Dead,” Into the Storm) leads the terrifying feature, which also stars William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, “The Royals”), Connor Paolo (“Revenge,” “Gossip Girl”), Brit Morgan (“Supergirl,” “Graceland”) and Liesl Ahlers (The Challenger Disaster).

Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is a popular college student who lives her college life to the fullest and gladly shares it with her 800 Facebook friends.

The consequences are deadly when black magic mixes with social media in Friend Request, arriving on Digital December 19 and on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and On Demand January 9 from Lionsgate. Alycia Debnam-Carey (“Fear the Walking Dead,” Into the Storm) leads the terrifying feature, which also stars William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, “The Royals”), Connor Paolo (“Revenge,” “Gossip Girl”), Brit Morgan (“Supergirl,” “Graceland”) and Liesl Ahlers […]...

Social media-themed horror is definitely a thing. In Friend Request, the latest in a slew, student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) accepts a ping from maudlin Marina (Liesl Ahlers), a loner she barely knows. It turns out to be not the best… Continue Reading →

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Social media can be a real time killer in everyday life, but in the new movie Friend Request, it kills more than just time, thanks to a supernatural social outcast who seeks vengeance on a group of tight-knit college classmates (suffice it to say that there are some people you should never unfriend). With the new horror film now out in Us theaters from Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, I had the pleasure of catching up with co-writer/director Simon Verhoeven for our latest Q&A to discuss how he came up with the idea for the film, exploring a supernatural subconscious of the Internet, mixing ancient rituals with new technology, and much more.

You can read on for my full Q&A with Verhoeven, and, in case you missed it, check out our Q&A with Friend Request co-star Liesl Ahlers and my review of the film, as well as...

Social media outlets like Facebook are supposed to bring people together, but anyone who has an online account nowadays knows that isn’t always the case, and it especially isn’t true for a college student named Marina (Liesl Ahlers) in Friend Request, a new horror film featuring witchcraft, disturbing visions, and face-eating wasps. But perhaps the most haunting thing of all is the number lurking under the friends tab on Marina’s page: “0.”

Marina’s classmate Laura (Fear The Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey) has an opposite online life. Her social media friends are in the healthy 800+ range, but more importantly, she enjoys spending time with a tight-knit group of pals in real life, including the tech-savvy Kobe (Stake Land’s Connor Paolo) and her boyfriend, Tyler (William Moseley).

Admiring Marina’s dark fantasy digital artwork, Laura becomes friends with her reclusive classmate online, but as that dreaded “0” is...

A campfire tale for the social media age, Friend Request is Hollywood’s latest attempt to portray the internet as a scary place. It’s a conventional and predictable horror yarn, though well-executed enough that if you go in with lowered expectations, you may have some fun with it. Friend Request begins promisingly, introducing protagonist Laura Woodson (Alycia Debnam-Carey) in a lively and well-edited montage showing how she blends her real life with the internet. Laura is an outgoing popular college sophomore with plenty of friends including close ones Olivia (Brit Morgan), Izzy (Brooke Markham) and Gus (Sean Marquette), boyfriend Tyler (William Moseley), and over 800 more on Facebook (though the word ‘Facebook’ is never actually uttered in the film). She accepts a friend request from a fellow student, the damaged goth misfit Marina Nedifar (anagram of ‘A Friend’ – and played by Liesl Ahlers), who seems to do little except stare...

Virtual reality gets real for some unsuspecting people on behalf of Friend Request. Take a look to see what happens when signing up for a brand new Vr experience takes a shockingly fun turn! Entertainment Studios Motions Pictures’ new horror film, starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley and Connor Paolo, scares its way into theaters this Friday!

Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura’s profile. Even though it wasn’t Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious,...

You'd think it would be difficult to empathize with someone who uses Facebook to destroy people's lives in gruesome ways, but Liesl Ahlers absolutely pulls it off in Friend Request. With the new horror film coming out in Us theaters this Friday from Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures (the same studio behind the recent Us theatrical release of 47 Meters Down), I had the great pleasure of catching up with actress Liesl Ahlers, who plays Marina, the social outcast who blends witchcraft and social media to haunt her college classmate Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) and her friends. During the Q&A, Ahlers discusses how she brought out both the humanity and the vengeful side of Marina, learning to walk on stilts for the demonic version of the character, which member of The Breakfast Club she thinks Marina shares similarities with, and much more.

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Social media has become a window into modern lives, but not an unfiltered one; users curate the way they appear online, often with disingenuous results. It was only a matter of time before the darker side of social media — cyber-stalking, online bullying, and slut-shaming — worked its way into the horror genre. While 2015’s “Unfriended” playfully exposed the double-lives of teenagers (with the majority of the film taking place on a computer screen), “Friend Request” is like unofficial sequel that focuses on the same themes.

But while the film uses social media as a catalyst for murder when a social pariah commits suicide, it does so with much muddier results.

“Friend Request” limits the computer screen activity to an opening montage, which swims through Laura’s (Alycia Debnam-Carey) life via her Facebook feed: photos and videos of parties, dinners and drunken nights out with her friends, congratulatory posts about charity work,...

A group of tight-knit college classmates are haunted by a vengeful spirit through social media on their computers and phones in the new horror film Friend Request. To celebrate the film's release this Friday from Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, a new prank video has been released in which unsuspecting participants in a virtual reality demo discover scares that are all too real when they get a scary surprise by actors wearing macabre makeup inspired by the new movie.

Watch the new prank video for Friend Request below, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on Friend Request this week. In the meantime, just be careful who you add to your social media network...

Directed by Simon Verhoeven, Friend Request stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette, Liesl Ahlers, and Shashawnee Hall.

Synopsis: "Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends,...

Exclusive: Friend Request will haunt your social media in the new Canadian trailerEXCLUSIVE: Friend Request will haunt your social media in the new Canadian trailerAmanda Wood9/19/2017 3:07:00 Pm

Every now and then a horror film comes along that feels like it could happen to any of us. Friend Request is definitely one such extra-creepy film.

We’re excited to exclusively present the Canadian trailer for Friend Request, a new horror film that finds a popular college student haunted by an outcast whose friendship she denied. Based on the trailer, it looks like much of the spookiness occurs on our protagonist’s Facebook page, which brings it closer to home than ever for those of us active on social media.

Alycia Debnam-Carey, Connor Paolo, Liesl Ahlers, and William Moseley star in this online nightmare, and we can’t wait to be scared out of our seats by a demonic internet presence.

MaryAnn’s quick take… We’ve literally just seen this, in 2015’s Unfriended. Tedious wannabe scarefest misses the true horrors of Facebook and cultivates a personality-free blandness. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not a big horror fan

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

If you’ve seen 2015’s Unfriended — about a bunch of high school students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who was recently bullied into suicide — then you’ve already seen Friend Request, which is about a bunch of college students who are tormented online by the evil spirit of a classmate who recently committed suicide as the ultimate passive-aggressive response to being ignored. And in fact, this “new” movie has been languishing unreleased in the Us for a year and a half, perhaps to get more air between it and the earlier film.

Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura’s profile. Even though it wasn’t Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious, cruel deaths, Laura must figure out how to break the deadly curse before it’s too late.

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures’ new horror film wreaks havoc in theaters nationwide September 22nd.

Stars Alycia Debnam-Carey (AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead), William Mosely (E!’s The Royals) and Connor Paolo (ABC’s Revenge,...

You want to be careful who you unfriend on Facebook, especially when witchcraft is involved. A scorned classmate from the dead uses social media to tear a group of students apart—perhaps even literally—in the new horror film Friend Request, and we've been provided with an exclusive set of images from the movie to share with Daily Dead readers.

You can check out our exclusive images below, including Alycia Debnam-Carey from Fear The Walking Dead, Connor Paolo from the Stake Land movies, and Brit Morgan from Supergirl.

Directed by Simon Verhoeven and starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, Liesl Ahlers, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, and Sean Marquette, Friend Request will be released in theaters on September 22nd:

"Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her.

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Friend Request: Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which...

We've seen Alycia Debnam-Carey survive the ravenous Infected on Fear The Walking Dead, but can she survive a scorned classmate who could be a witch? A new trailer for Friend Request explores one woman's brutal revenge via social media.

Directed by Simon Verhoeven, Friend Request will be released in theaters on September 22nd:

"Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura’s profile. Even though it wasn’t Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious,...

Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video …

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Friend Request U.S. Trailer Simon Verhoeven‘s Friend Request (2016) U.S. movie trailer stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Brit Morgan, Connor Paolo, and Liesl Ahlers. Friend Request‘s plot synopsis: “Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl [...]

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Evil is trending in the new trailer and poster for Friend Request.

Stars Alycia Debnam-Carey (AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead), William Mosely (E!’s The Royals) and Connor Paolo (ABC’s Revenge, The CW’s Gossip Girl).

Popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina’s (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone’s shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura’s profile. Even though it wasn’t Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page, her Facebook friend count begins to dwindle as a result. When her real-life friends start dying mysterious, cruel deaths, Laura must figure out how...

Tagline: "Evil is Trending." The true horror of losing friends on social media has been put to film, again! This time, the horror film is titled Friend Request. Directed by German filmmaker Simon Verhoeven, the film shows what can happen when you ostracize people on social media platforms. Plus, a little witchcraft is thrown into the mix to spice things up. This film stars: Alycia Debnam-Carey ("Fear the Walking Dead") and Liesl Ahlers. This title was shot in South Africa. And, Friend Request will see theatres, in the United States, this September. The trailer shows more of the film's mayhem. Laura (Debnam-Carey) unfriends Marina (Ahlers), on a very Facebook-like social media platform. Marina kills herself, not much later. Then, Marina's spirit returns to haunt Laura, both online and in real life. The spirit world, technology and the real world collide in Friend Request. As well, the film's theatrical poster is hosted here.

While today’s technology-laden world makes a lot of things easier, it also comes at a price. Things may be easier than ever before, allowing us to be more productive in ways we never imagined, but it can sometimes open up all sorts of unexpected dangers.

There have been all kinds of horror movies that use technology at its center. One Missed Call used the cell phone, Unfriended was a horror film that took place over an extensive Skype conversation, and now, Friend Request takes the idea of social media and mixes it with a dash of more traditional horror elements, including witchcraft. But is it enough to make this film anything more than another gimmick?

Based on the trailer, it’s difficult to say. At some points, the concepts seems pretty interesting, but at others, it comes across as more of a cringefest. This one also has an interesting release history.

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has released a new trailer for Friend Request, which hits theaters next month, just as school gets back in session. This new thriller takes fans through the dark side of social media, showing how one "friend" can turn someone's life upside down. While Jaws may have kept a generation away from the ocean, Friend Request may have the same affect on social-media obsessed youngsters in the 21st Century.

The story centers on popular college student Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey), who has tons of friends, both on Facebook and Irl. She graciously accepts social outcast Marina's (Liesl Ahlers) online friend request, until Marina crosses the line and Laura unfriends her. To everyone's shock, Marina takes her own life in a ritual meant to torment Laura, which appears in a video posted on Laura's profile. Even though it wasn't Laura who posted the video, or other creepy content that begins appearing on her page,...

As society continues to further the threshold of technological advancement, horror cinema must adapt accordingly. More than any other genre, horror films mirror social phenomenons to exploit generational norms. Wireless carriers rarely drop service, smartphones can be tracked via Gps locators, handheld devices can research data on-the-spot – it’s getting harder and harder for on-screen killers to dupe victims these days. That’s why movies like Unfriended, The Den and Cam2Cam have ushered in a new cyber-terror scourge, something that Simon Verhoeven’s Friend Request looks to upgrade.

Alycia Debnam-Carey stars as Laura, a popular college co-ed with a healthy social following on Facebook (it’s never spoken, but it’s Facebook). Out of the blue one night, she receives a friend request from one of her loner classmates (Marina Mills, played by Liesl Ahlers). Laura initially sees no harm in befriending the quiet new student, and spends the...