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Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Mary C. Burke

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With a range of experts from different disciplines and professions, this text comprehensively...

Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code

Pete Goodliffe

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If you're passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you've come to the right...

Anxiety and Panic: How to Reshape Your Anxious Mind and Brain

Harry Barry

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A practical guide to understanding, managing and overcoming anxiety and panic attacks by bestselling...

God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse

John Goodall and Ian Hayward

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This title was first published in 2001. God's House, at Ewelme, is an extraordinary survival from...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Friend Request (2016) in Movies

Oct 6, 2020 (Updated Oct 6, 2020)

Friend Request (2016)

2016 | Horror, International, Mystery

5.1

(8 Ratings)

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*decline*. Jesus, I usually have a wicked high tolerance for these Gen-Z-catered idiotic mainstream horror flicks but this was abysmal. I'm offended that this could even be uttered within the same sentence as the rip-roaring, unnerving, and highly idiosyncratic 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 films which - at least for a time - were required to shit on because at the time Facebook was still this relatively new and trendy thing that kids liked... but now that it's dying can we finally admit those were actually both genius *and* truly scary? Especially after this absolutely formless drivel. Flimsily acted even by these movies' low standards, and its depiction of mental illness can be generously described as execrable - it initially begins as a sort of interesting dissection of social media etiquette and the very narrow view of what we consider to be 'weird' by its standards... but then it reveals its true colors by demonizing these very real conditions/behaviors by way of shoddy technophobic bullshit. The thing is, this actually has some good horror movie imagery in it too - a fair amount - but it's made in such a repellent way that I also don't really care. Plus it's overcut to hell.