This Is One Of The Worst Horror Movie Trends Of Recent Years

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Since social media has become a huge part of routines in the past few years, as people check their phones as soon as they wake up and love seeing what people are eating, doing, and obsessed with, there are many movies that talk about the dark side of technology. The 2017 film Ingrid Goes West tells an incredible story about Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza), who starts stalking influencer Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen). The horror genre has also tackled the theme of social media obsession, but while this does seem like a great idea for a scary film, there are a few horror movies from the past decade that are really, really bad.

Horror fans have noticed quite a few movies about social media killers. While some movies are shot entirely on a computer screen and that be so fun to watch, there are two movies that stick out as having no real plot and no interesting characters.

This 2000s Remake Of A Classic Horror Film Is Incredibly Boring

#FollowFriday and Friend Request were both released in 2016 and both try to tell a classic horror movie story in a more creative way. Both movies are about college students who are terrified after realizing that something odd is happening with their social media accounts. The movies share similar plots. In #FollowFriday, Nabila Nariman (Courtney Lakin) is a lonely college student who realizes that a serial killer is following people on social media and then murdering them. The movie relies on horror/thriller tropes and cliches without fully formed characters who audiences get to know.

In Friend Request, Laura Woodson (Alycia Debnam-Carey) isn't a good horror movie main character. She's pretty, popular, and has friends and a boyfriend and a happy, peaceful life. Audiences don't find out much,