The group suspects that a classmate, Val Rommel, is pranking them. Blaire looks up the account and realizes that it belonged to Laura Barns, revealing "billie227" as Laura even though the friends are still incredulous about this possibility.
The group of friends tries various ways to get rid of the intruder but are unsuccessful each time. Soon after they are joined by their friends and classmates Jess Felton, Ken Smith, and Adam Sewell, and an unknown user known as "billie227." One year later, her former childhood best friend Blaire Lily is chatting with her boyfriend Mitch Roussel on Skype, during which they agree to lose their virginities to each other on prom night. High school student Laura Barns committed suicide by gunshot after an anonymous user uploaded a video of her passing out and defecating at an unsupervised party, and the video went viral. A stand-alone sequel film, Unfriended: Dark Web, was released in 2018. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a massive box-office success, grossing $62 million against a $1 million budget.
The film premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures in the United States on April 17, 2015. The film is told almost entirely through a screencast of a MacBook. The film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson as high school students in a Skype conversation which is haunted by a student, played by Heather Sossaman, who was bullied and died by suicide. The first feature film to be entirely set on a computer screen, it is produced in the so-called Screenlife format. Unfriended is a 2014 American computer screen supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.