Despite Adam's death, Laura says the game is not over. Blaire listens to the police and looks up the codes they say, realizing that Val has apparently committed suicide. They are on LiveLeak website being told that the video they are about to watch is disturbing and they must agree to be 18 or older to view it. While a frightened Jess hides in her bathroom, Blaire goes on Chatroulette and successfully gets someone to call the police. Type of Villain Jess Felton (1997-2014) Jess is very foul-mouthed when provoked; this is shown when she threatens to beat up Val after she insults her, and again when learning that Blaire crashed her mother's car while drunk and pinned the blame on her. (Note: the entire movie takes place from the point-of-view of a laptop computer screen). Possessing Blaire's laptop, she begins counting down, shocking Blaire and increasing her panic. Jess spreads a rumor about Blaire having an eating disorder; Blaire drunkenly crashed Jess' mother's car; Adam bargained with Laura to trade Jess' life for his; Mitch ratted Adam out to the cops for selling marijuana; Jess hacked Adam's bank account and stole $800 from him. Soon after they are joined by their friends and classmates Jess Felton, Ken Smith, and Adam Sewell, and an unknown user known as "billie… Edit. When multiple Instagram users scold Val for her cruelty, Billie227 possesses Val's computer and calls the group, causing Val's corpse to be suddenly brought back into the chat. Blaire Lily Blaire Lily, the villainous main protagonist of the film. A few minutes later, Blaire receives an Instagram link revealing that Val told Laura to kill herself after Laura made a heartfelt plea to her to remove the video. After Laura possesses the Skype chat, she forces Val to drink bleach. As noted by Adam and Val, Jess appears to be somewhat promiscuous. After Jess refuses to admit she was the one who vandalized it, Laura fully manifest in Jess's house and turns all the lights off in her house. Concerned Blaire calls Val to check on her, and Val's phone is seen vibrating across her counter. This was cut in the final version of the film. Having fully possessed Ken, Laura begins attacking Ken, by throwing him down onto his desk, mangling his hand in a blender, and then killing him by pressing his neck on the blades of the blender to slice his throat. Val was born and raised in Fresno, California. Val is the last one to join the Skype call in the film, but also the first one to die. Val rejected the plea and told her to kill herself. Her death is the dull machete in Dead Meat's kill count. The film premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014, and at SXSW on March 13, 2015. Her acquaintances believe her to be vain and arrogant, and discover she is also a party girl due to her drinking heavily and smoking marijuana. High school student (formerly)Ghost Given her reaction when Laura sent her a secret email calling it a threat, it is strongly implied it was the nasty message she sent to Laura herself, further suggesting she would rather try to escape any punishment or criticism. It is heavily implied that Laura went to Hell after committing suicide since according to Laura Barns' Facebook profile, her religious views are Catholic and historically, Catholicism viewed suicide as a mortal (even unpardonable, in some cases) sin and thus, those who committed it was often denied Christian burials. She is later contacted over Skype by her boyfriend Mitch Roussel and later joined by three of their friends: Jess Felton, Ken Sm… Edit source History Talk (0) Comments Share. Billie227 then disconnects the webcam in the chat room. Val started out as the chief deacon of Knoth. This month Brandon made Britnee, Alli, and Boomer watch Unfriended (2015). Unfriended When Blaire and Mitch instinctively proclaim their innocence, Laura private chats Blaire, while counting down on Skype. Hobby Finally, Unfriended: Dark Web shows the entire organization voting on whether Matias should live or die. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. The movie starts with someone's video desktop. Their sexually intimate Skype chat was interrupted by their four other friends. As he goes to investigate, she turns off the lights in his house and forces him to retreat into the living room. Michael Herbig who portrays the other uncredited Fresno officer investigating Val's death had actually filmed a sequence for the film's theatrical trailer when finally titled "Unfriended". It appears that this entity is able to attack and possess people, as well as do just about anything on the Internet, such as post tweets, send messages, and upload distant files onto the Internet. Jess Felton - … Val was also very cruel, as when Laura attempts to genuinely apologize for her actions and asks her to take down the video, Val showed no sympathy and instead suggested she should kill herself. When Ken finds the source of the camera, he looks directly into the camera, frozen in shock his for a few seconds before his feed cuts out. Her connection to Laura is ambiguous, but a message sent by Laura to Val suggests that Laura may have bullied her at some point. The group also notices the broken mirror behind her and the empty bottle of bleach by her side. She begins to have vivid nocturnal emissions of the Testament's monstrous bloodshed, writing "Our sins find us in our drea… On April 12, 2014, in the anniversary of Laura's death, Blaire is initially seen watching the suicide video of Laura and afterwards, she erases it from her Internet history possibly out of guilt. The voice operator reveals herself to be Billie227 and after she hangs up from Adam's phone Billie227 begins to supernaturally attack her friends directly. Died on December 28, 2017, she appeared as Sally in an old episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show shown on Joey and Chandler's new TV set, her appearance on the screen scared everyone and caused Monica to say "I guess Rose Marie belongs to smaller screens". Information Status Unknown, possibly deceased, definitely single Age 17 Species Human Hometown Fresno, California Date of Death April 12, 2014 (Possibly) (Judged by Computer’s Clock.) billie227 (online username) After, Laura decides to reward her, but tells her that she must confess to one more thing. With no other options, the group fearfully agrees to play a game. Torturing and killing the protagonists one by one, demanding a confession on who posted the video. Meanwhile, as the panic begins to set in, Ken tries to undermine Laura by emailing the group a malware removal program to forcibly remove Laura from their chat session. In the film, after everyone notices the account, they make several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the user. Blaire, in private text chat to Mitch, attempts to explain that Laura was going through some tough stuff, and wasn’t just a suicidal brat. Val is seen silently sitting in her laundry room, next to an open bottle of bleach, motionlessly staring at the camera. On April 12, 2013, Laura had enough of the cyberbullying and decided to commit suicide in a public area by shooting herself. Billie227 e-mails Blaire an Instagram picture of an email that Laura sent Val a year earlier, begging her to remove the embarrassing video and offering friendship. Meanwhile, Laura's ghost invades Jess's room and siphons her Internet connection. He tells her he can't stand Val and that she is a floozy. Unfriended, also known as Cybernatural, is a 2014 supernatural Horror Film directed by Levan Gabriadze, starring Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, and Heather Sossaman.It's a unique take on the Found Footage genre, taking place on one of the character's computer screens.. Laura then jams Jess's Wi-Fi, causing Jess' feed to cut off. After much struggling and arguing, the program is successful and Laura is removed. The trailer strongly implicates that the identity of Billie227 is the spirit of the girl who committed suicide in the first place, Laura Barns, as he/she hacks Laura's account and her profile picture distorts whenever Laura is mentioned. Including Ken. PossessionTelepathyPerceptionTechnopathyGreat intelligenceHackingThe ability to retrace memories of the pastPsychology Seconds after, her feed resumes, showing a dying Jess choking to death on a burning electric hair straightener. Finally manifesting herself for her best friend, Laura invades Blaire's house. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Unfriended (2014) Laura Barns - Shot herself in the face. When Blaire and Mitch subsequently apologize to each other, thinking that it's all over, Laura manifests herself again by physically by turning off the lights in their houses. Serial KillingMutilationStalkingPhysical/Psychological TortureBlackmailExtortion One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they are suddenly joined by a user known only as "Billie227." Meanwhile, Blaire hears her bedroom door creak open. Adam Sewell - Forced to shoot himself in the face by Laura. They are lead to believe her camera had lagged out into an image with the only sound in the background being the barking of her dog. After Val scolds Jess for posting the pictures Jess, proclaiming her innocence, attempts to delete the photos, but they continue to reappear. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Out of the group, she was the most heartless, not removing the Laura video, even after the feedback. Blaire, now realizing that Laura is now after her, tries to placate Laura by showing her past photos of when the two were friends. When she is invited to the chat, Laura hack's Jess' Facebook with repulsive and compromising pictures of Val at a party, some of which show Val drunk to the point of vomiting and passing out and smoking a bong. As noted by Jess and Blaire, she was not well liked by the other main cast members or other peers in school. It is unknown how exactly the angry users commenting on the Instagram photo showing Val telling Laura to kill herself found it in the first place and knew who she was. Blaire is relieved and tells Mitch he scared her to death with his pranks but he promises her that he isn't behind Billie. With Ken's death, Laura asserts total control over the remaining survivors. She was greedy towards her friends and was egotistical. Billie227 then aggressively taunts and threatens Val, causing her to call 911 to report online abuse, but not before accusing Ken of harassment, and signing off. Gain a confession from who posted the embarrassing video of her, which led to her supposed suicide one year ago and Kill the one responsible for posting the video by any means necessary, Jess spreads a rumor about Blaire having an eating disorder, Blaire drunkenly crashed Jess' mother's car, Adam bargained with Laura to trade Jess' life for his, Mitch ratted Adam out to the cops for selling marijuana, Jess hacked Adam's bank account and stole $800 from him, Mitch's Death and the Final Secret Revealed. Val could also be very rude and unreasonable, at times insulting others and making accusations towards friends without even listening to their sides. She then immediately messages them, demanding to know who uploaded the video of her humiliation on YouTube. The trailer strongly implicates that the identity of Billie227 is the spirit … Billie227 (real name: Laura Barns) (January 4, 1996 – April 12, 2013) is the main antagonist of the 2015 horror film Unfriended. Knoth forces her to kill countless of them for pragmatic reasons, however. billie227 then Skype messages the group stating they have dirty little secrets and she wants to expose them. Laura Barns was born on January 4, 1996. Adam decides to call the police. And further possessing the group's computers, Laura then takes an even more direct approach to her friends. After Jess finally deletes them, Billie227 hacks Adam's account and posts the photos on his Facebook. In the video Laura is seen pushing and taunting Val, and proclaiming to everyone that "She is going to beat my ass everyone! Following Val's death, Laura fully manifests herself by abandoning her Billie227 alias. Full Name As the group finds themselves besieged by their hidden secrets, Laura forces them to play a game. In response, Laura retorts that there's more to the story than what Blaire is willing to admit. Not once was I bored, not once did … She and her friends are responsible for the suicide of Laura Barns, who was her childhood friend, with herself being the primary culprit. Laura saw the video and noticed that there were many hate comments that targeted her and she probably became traumatized since the video reveals her soiled shorts, which probably made her remember about the sexual abuse she received from her uncle. She was a nerd among her classmates, and was a victim of sex-bullying which led her to committing suicide on April 8, 2013 after an embarrassing sex video was taken of her being drunk, possibly sexually assaulted (a teen boy is seen hugging her on what looks like a bed with only the finest of silk sheets) and eventually passing out, defecating herself beforehand. Val was born and raised in Fresno, California. She begins by sending private photos to the rest of the group containing their own secrets, Blaire specifically receives a photo of her and Adam having sex. In contrast she acts very cowardly when in frightening situations, often crying or panicking when Laura threatens her or her friends. Now that the group is at her full attention, she then demands to know to who posted the video that made her kill herself. A group of online chat room friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend. Directed by Levan Gabriadze. Valerie “Val” Rommel (June 1996 - 2014) is one of the six protagonists of Unfriended. Adam's camera is jolted downwards by this, and shows the message to sent to him: "If you reveal this note, Blaire will die.". Blaire knew that she had a troubled relationship with her uncle and it was assumed that he sexually abused her. Unfriended begins on the night of April 12th 2014, the anniversary of Laura Barns’(Heather Sossaman) suicide. Continuing the game, she demands to know who has ever defaced her grave. Then, to take advantage of an emotionally unstable Adam, she purposely sends both Blaire and Adam messages from their printer, threatening to kill them should they reveal their messages. When they both protest their innocence, Laura makes herself known in the form of billie227. Laura Barns was born on January 4, 1996 in Fresno, California. While Blaire continues to console Laura, Laura materializes in Mitch's room and then fully possesses Mitch. The group try to work out Val's death using those codes, which is eventually labelled as a suicide. The description top says this is a response to a YouTube video anonymously posted (with a link). Val Rommel - Forced to drink bleach by Laura. It received a theatrical release … A moment later, the video feed returns and shows Val sitting motionless in front of the camera, seemingly frozen. Unfriendedis a film about a group of friends simply talking on Skype, and are haunted and tortured by an unseen entity that seems to have hacked into their Skype call and forces them to commit suicide one by one until one of them confesses to posting a humiliating video of a high school student, which had resulted in the student being cyberbullied and driven to suicide. He is also very proud of his blender, frequently bragging about it to others. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Her connection to Laura is ambiguous, but a message sent by Laura to Val suggests that Laura may have bullied her at some poi… Ignoring her threats, Ken states that he never liked Laura saying she was a bully and deserved everything that she received from the embarrassing video of her, stating that Laura bullied Ken before her suicide. Her past self, the female 911 voice operator and her vengeful spirit are portrayed by Heather Sossaman. Though it is not explicitly stated, it is heavily implied that Laura possessed Val and forced her to drink the bleach. However, while they could have manipulated Blaire's friends to kill themselves by leading them to think that they were Laura's ghost, it would be very unlikely that one of them could have went dressed as a demonic Laura to Blaire's house and kill her. Ken was not afraid to tell others how he feels about other people, as he told them how he felt about both Valand Laura no matter how mean it was and even laughed about it later. This could also explain why Laura killed Jess in a slow and painful manner when it's revealed that Jess was the one who vandalized her grave and why Laura got her demonic powers in the first place. Fearing for Mitch's life, Blaire shows her note: "If you reveal this note, Adam will die." After Blaire finally admits that Mitch was the one who did it Laura forces a possessed Mitch to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the eye, leaving Blaire alone in the chat room. She later kills Val in a way that looks the most like a suicide out of the teens' deaths and tops it off by sending this message to them. Hacking her account and Blaire's, Laura uploads the embarrassing video of her on Facebook, but in this video, which she dubs "the extended edition", Blaire is revealed to be the laughing cameraman saying "I got her". Fully possessing Adam, Laura kills him by forcing him to shoot himself in the face with his father's revolver. It was theorized among fans that the true identity of Billie227 may be the parents, the uncle or the boyfriend of Laura Barns. After Ken stands up, he and the remaining friends realize that the camera is in his room. On the outside, Blaire seemed to be a normal girl, but turned out to be unloyal as her secrets started to reveal. Using his rage to both her advantage and to further possess him, Laura uploads Blaire and Adam's sex tape on YouTube to prove it. Revived as a zombie ghost. Fought with Laura outside during a party. As the night wears on, Billie227's/Laura's Facebook account starts sending cryptic messages to the friends, which makes them suspect that another girl, Val Rommel (Courtney Halverson), whom they all despise, is simply pranking them. Unfriended kept me glued to the screen for the entirety of its short run time. Torturing and killing the protagonists one by one, demanding a confession on who posted the video. On April 12, 2014, she joins a Skype call and sees that Jess and Adam supposedly posted drunk pictures of her on Facebook. Alias However when Blaire tries to call her, she sees her vibrating phone moving across the table, with Val apparently ignoring it. An anonymous p… Goals Billie227's control over the group grows even tighter after sending insulting text messages, leading to massive arguments. It is then through this game, that Laura then reveals secrets that put the friends at odds with each other: When a heavily intoxicated Adam becomes enraged at the game and furious to learn that Mitch ratted him out, he then uses the game to force Blaire to reveal that she is no longer a virgin, having had sex with him twice behind Mitch's back, and an enraged Mitch retaliates by revealing that Adam gave a girl roofies at a party and had sex with her while she was unconscious, then forced her to have an abortion when she later discovered she was pregnant. It can be presumed that it was posted on her Instagram, or that Laura sent the screenshot to all of her friends. The film begins on April 12, 2014, exactly a year after Laura's suicide. Val doesn't move as her computer falls to the ground and the police arrive. Tragic Supernatural Vigilante, TelepathyPerceptionTechnopathyGreat intelligenceHackingThe ability to retrace memories of the pastPsychology, MutilationStalkingPhysical/Psychological TortureBlackmailExtortion. Evil-doer A female 911 Voice Operator answers the call. Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before & we discuss it afterwards. Her suicide deeply affected everyone who knew her and witnessed it and her Facebook account became a memorial and dedication page. Crimes In playing, Laura ultimately forces the four remaining friends to play Never Have I Ever, threatening to end the loser's life. They accept. The blurry video is played, showing a girl on a school… The operator asks if everyone is ok and safe. He appears as the bearded man skydiving in a YouTube clip. Billie227 Occupation With Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson, Shelley Hennig. Brandon: I generally don't have too much personal interest in modern mainstream horror as defined by filmmakers like James Wan, Eli Roth, and Fede Alvarez, but… As it reveals she drove Jess's mothers car while drunk and pinned the blame on Jess shows that she is willing to let others take the fall for something she did. Powers/Skills Laura Barns The video was then uploaded onto YouTube without her consent, which made Laura a victim of cyberbullying and humiliation. Angry and visibly shocked, Val calls the police and her video feed cuts out. Laura Barns create a new list. Blaire watches the suicide video on LiveLeak before she closes the screen and goes on Skype to talk to her boyfriend Mitch. Speechless, Blaire realizes that there is no turning back as Laura simply tells her that her mistake will live on the Internet forever. The focus is the relationship between these characters, the way the killer drives them apart by revealing secrets, and the increasing tension as more and more people die. Almost everyone agrees he should die and is run over by a truck a few seconds later. However, they also notice an unwanted user in their Skype chat, which was Billie227, who is proven to be Laura's Instagram account. Though they were best friends, Laura was known to be a bully by her classmates but unlike Blaire, who often kept her past crimes a secret, Laura openly confessed that she was a bully herself. Karmic Death: When Laura tried to apologize to stop the cyberbullying, Val told her to kill herself in response. Mitch, angry that Blaire and Adam are apparently sending each other "secret messages", threatens to log off, to which Laura responds that if he does, he will die. 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. The outskirts of Temple Gate are littered with notes written through the perspective of Val telling her gradual rift in views between herself and Sullivan Knoth. The laptop screen format mostly leans on the Skype thing, but there is one time that it’s used to interesting effect. She begins to manifest herself in Adam's house by knocking on his front door. Unfriended Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. As Blaire's Facebook account becomes flooded with angry Facebook users blaming her for Laura's death by betraying her stating that Blaire could kill herself and called her a monster, Laura tells Blaire that she wishes she could forgive her, then signs off Skype. The last thing they see is Val dead on the floor before the camera closes. Nr. Since the mirror behind her appears to be broken, she could have been forced to also cut her wrists. Unfriended. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Unfriended is a 2014 American found footage, supernatural slasher horror film directed by Russo-Georgian director Levan Gabriadze, written by Nelson Greaves, exec-produced by Jason Blum, co-produced by Adam Sidman, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Greaves.. Ken was also the most knowledgeable of technology the six friends, as he had gr… (Possibly non canon ending.) As the code for suicide is read up the laptop is re-arranged by an officer and the webcam displays Val's dead body on the floor before she is disconnected from the chat. Origin When they go back in the chat, Billie calls Val a floozy, infuriating Val who demands to know who Billie227 is. This explains why when Val threatened to hurt her at her place, Laura responds cryptically "You wouldn't like it here". https://unfriended.fandom.com/wiki/Val_Rommel?oldid=8254. Their efforts are short lived however, as immediately afterward Laura returns and opens a camera feed behind one of the users. Initially, Val was the foster parent of Temple Gate's ill children whom she sympathized with in her journals. ... in the Google search result, there is a Facebook Community Help question that says that someone's brother died 5 years ago. However, little did they know that the vengeful spirit of Laura Barns returns to this world after she accessed a mysterious Skype account called Billie227, which she used to exact her revenge by killing those who didn't confess about posting the embarrassing video on YouTube. When Laura tries to apologize and asks her to remove the video, Val tells her to kill herself. Creating silhouetted hands that appear and suddenly close Blaire's laptop (revealing the movie to be in first person), Blaire whispered out to Laura and as soon as she did Laura's ghost jumps out making a terrifying angry face and attacks Blaire, who unleashes one final scream either of agony or terror. For some odd reason, Blaire Lily (Shelley Henning) is viewing the video of Laura Barns’ suicide and the video of her drunk and lying on the …