In the age of social media, a single click can open the door to connection—or to something far more sinister.
Friend Request (2016), directed by Simon Verhoeven, blends supernatural horror with psychological tension to explore the dark side of online friendships. Set against the backdrop of university life, the film follows Laura, a popular medical student, whose simple act of accepting a lonely classmate’s friend request spirals into a nightmarish chain of events. What begins as harmless curiosity soon unravels into cyberstalking, occult rituals, and a deadly curse that cannot be unfollowed.
Friend Request Movie Ending Explanation in Details
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Laura, Liv and Isabel are friends; they study in a Medical school. They are all new social media generation people. They share everything on social media. If someone gets attention on social media, people consider her popular. Those people have friends who have more social media followers.
Laura is the kind of popular girl in med school. Beauty with brains. She has a handsome doctor boyfriend too. She sometimes stays at her boyfriend’s place and gets intimate. They love each other so much. Actually, Laura leads a life that everyone craves. Who doesn’t want to get everything in life?
They are friends and they belong to a pretty understanding relationship. One day, she notices a girl sitting in a corner alone, looking at her. She thinks she is very lonely. She decides to talk with her.
One day, she gets a friend request from her. Her name is Ma Rina Mills.
She goes through her timeline. She gets a kind of gothic and dark vibe from her shared videos. She kind of likes it and accepts her request.
She meets her on campus. Laura’s father was a psychiatrist, and she is following in his footsteps. She asks Rina if she is doing it for credit or if she really wants to do it. She says she doesn’t know anyone yet. Laura says now she knows her. She again stares at her, and Laura bids her goodbye.
After school, Laura spends time with her boyfriend. She notices Rina tags her in a post. Tyler asks if she is her first mental patient, seeing some messages coming from Rina. She is sending such messages that prove she is so icky.
At night, Laura sees so many wasps outside the window. She goes there and sees Rina with a lot of wasps, and that spoils her sleep. She has just had a nightmare. In the morning, she goes out for a jog and checks messages from her friends.
Kobe and Gustavo are good friends, so they went out together last night and sent each other messages, making fun of it. Along with this, she gets Rina’s messages. She says Hey it’s her birthday the next day. Asks if she is having a party. She is looking forward to it.
These make Laura sick. Why is she so sticky? She has gone through every post she has ever made in her life.
Rina photo shopped her photo with her photo. How crazy she is! Liv says she wants to see her timeline. When they go through her timeline, they find so many disturbing photos. Kind of satanic ritual. They understand this girl isn’t right. She should not hang out with her. She didn’t invite her to her birthday party. She has invited herself.
On the day of her birthday party, she is doing her hair, and at that time, she calls in FaceTime. She congratulates her, and she asks if Laura gets her messages. Laura says she will see her tomorrow. She asks what about tonight. Isn’t she gonna celebrate with her friends? She says it’s just Tyler and her, so she will see her later.
Laura has lied about it. She feels icky lying about it, but nothing she can do about it. Then she and all her friends and her mom celebrate the birthday party together. They enjoy the evening so much. Later, Marina confronts her. She saw everything when she celebrated her birthday with all of her friends. She is just a liar like everyone else.
Does she know how it feels to be all alone? Saying this, she grabs her hand and starts shaking it violently. Laura shakes her hands off her and it makes her cap fall. Her head is swollen, and part of it is slightly empty. Everyone in the canteen sees it. She gets embarrassed and runs away.
Even Marina was embarrassed by the incident, but she still gives Laura messages wanting to be friends with her. She tries to face chat with her and gives her messages, saying sorry. But Laura doesn’t take her call and unfriends her. She didn’t know this would change her whole life. At night, Laura hears something and sees a weird mirror on the wall.
In that mirror, she sees a figure slowly coming towards her, and it is about to come out of the mirror. That’s when Liv comes, and we see a demonic reaction behind her. But it disappears, and Laura goes back to her room. The next day, they hear about the suicide of Marina Mills.
It is his unfortunate responsibility to share with you some terrible news. It seems that over the weekend, our fellow student, Ma Rina Mills, committed suicide. The professor says that if there is anyone who knows her contact information.
Laura talks with him and says she was stalking her and kind of went crazy. Her friends say not to beat herself up about it. This girl is completely nuts. Laura says she needed help, though. Not from a sophomore psych 201. Gus says sarcastically, if there is a funeral, we will be out of the dorm at least. But Kobe says there is no funeral. Cops were at his dorm this morning, and they don’t know where she did it, but it wasn’t there.
I heard she hasn’t swiped her key card since last weekend. That’s not what freaks him out. What freaks him out is that they don’t know who the girl even was. Her social info and her security are all deleted from the school database. They don’t even think that Marina Mills was her real name. At night, Laura gets a notification from Marina Mills, and it is her suicide video. Laura gets so frightened seeing the video.
Tyler refrains from seeing the video. The next day at school, all the students see her differently. She thinks about why it is happening. Liv says she should check her account. That suicide video was uploaded from her account. That makes her so sick to everyone, but Laura didn’t do it. Teachers call her and say to delete her account, but she says she can’t. She can’t do it.
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They say there must be some reason this girl burned that picture of you. Laura calls at the media office. She tells them to delete the account. But they say they are not seeing this profile. Laura asks if there is anyone else she can speak to. She gets to know that they will just say the same thing. Kobe knows how to hack accounts. Laura goes to Kobe, and he says a normal code, and the code of this account has a lot of differences. They see a photo there where a woman is hanging herself over the fire.
Tyler says to stop thinking about that girl; she has killed herself. End of story. This is called cyber stalking. They can’t bother you if you are not online. Marina has been friends with Gustavo. Gustavo is talking with Izz. Suddenly, his connection gets cut off, and the laptop stops. He gets up and calls everyone, but there is no one. He gets onto the lift, and an invisible force hurts him and kills him. Izz is standing in front of the lift and sees Gus dying. She gets hospitalized. Izz is blaming Laura for Gus’s murder. Next, they see that Laura has uploaded Gus’s murder video of the lift in her profile. Now, everyone hates Laura. Her social media friends start to deteriorate. Laura thinks about writing a clarification post on her wall, but she can’t. Instead, it is written,
‘You will know how it feels to be lonely :)’
Laura gets suspended for the rest of the semester. She tells her mom not to call her on FaceTime. She meets Kobe to discuss the matter and sees Marina make Gustavo a friend right before his murder. Laura listens to the murder video of Gus for Kobe. She hears some wasps’ noise. Kobe says the wasp stays with the witch and they protect them. They search her room and find a school photo. Laura goes to that school and meets the professor. She tells her real name, Marina Nedifar. Marina came to them as a ward of the state. She had a very rough go of things here. Marina used to be a quiet girl. She had no one to talk to.
Two boys used to disturb her, and one day, they raped her. Since then, she flees into her little fantasy world. She found some dark corners online. Things a child shouldn’t see. Sometimes she would just stare at the computer for hours. Nothing on the screen at all. Just her reflection in the darkness. The kids became terrified of her. That she gave them nightmares.
In the flashback, we see that she killed those two children. Kobe searches black mirror cults, and he finds Marina is not dead; she performed a ritual and became something powerful. Tyler tries to write that Laura has no fault, but can’t write it, and he finds a wasp in his ear. Two boys in a photo were found dead in the slaughterhouse with their faces mutilated. They were swarmed by black wasps. She tells Tyler to search Nedifer.
Liv sees that Izz gets friends with Marina, so now she is on the death train. Izz gets dead, and as usual, there is also a video, and this is posted by Laura. Liv and Kobe are in danger now.
They try to delete the account but can’t do it. Kobe shares some facts about black mirror with Laura. Liv sees Laura researching Marina, and she misunderstands her and leaves. Tyler informs Laura what she knows about Nedifar and notices Marina gets along with Liv. They go to save Liv, but it’s too late. She gets hospitalized, and this time, police guard her.
Laura leaves for Moore’s Grove, leaving Tyler here. But Marina kills Liv by the time she reaches there. Kobe and Laura have reached their birthplace. It is a burnt place, and it seems like no one lives here.
There is no cement in the wall. Bricks are uncovered, and it gives a damaged vibe to this place. Kobe gets a demonic notification on his mobile. He is intelligent, so he throws it out. Laura gets a little ahead of Kobe. So Kobe loses her. Kobe gets a little terrified because he is alone now. He calls her. Suddenly, he sees a demonic figure coming towards him.
It is probably Rina’s mother. But at that moment, Laura bumps into him, so the evil disappears. Rina is not here. But the basement has not been checked yet. So they open it, and they enter it and walk through the parts. They find some ritualistic things, but don’t find Rina. Laura finds Kobe in front of a mirror. She calls him, and Kobe stabs her because if she is not alive, she will not make anyone lonely.
Laura runs to the woods, and Kobe screams her name behind. Laura runs and hides in the product warehouse. She sees a view from there. Three lighthouses are standing beside each other. She saw this view in the sketch in Rina’s room and in a photo that was found on the internet. Kobe and Tyler fight.
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Tyler asks him angrily what it means that he doesn’t know where she is. They both went together. He says she is fine. They are just damaged. She is peachy. Laura calls Tyler and texts and address to him. She is going to that factory, and now Tyler is going there too. Kobe says he doesn’t know what he is dealing with. They all are gonna die for her. Laura enters the factory and searches for Rina, but this place is empty too.
A moment later, Tyler meets Laura, but Kobe stabs Tyler from behind, and he dies. Kobe chases Laura, but he has also died of an intense wasp attack. Laura sees two boys and she asks them what else they want from her. Then the little Marina appears and says she just wants to be her friend. Her best friend. Laura comes to the room where she comes from and finds a black mirror. She stands in front of the mirror, and somebody attacks her.
Then we see Marina again sitting in a corner of a university. The camera reveals the face. Wait, this is not Marina. This is Laura wearing Marina’s clothes with zero friends. Maybe, she will start a new mission.
How did Nedifar murder all of them?
If anyone looks into a black mirror, they will be able to communicate dark evils. They give them powers. Nedifar did the ritual using a black mirror. Her laptop was her black mirror.
What is Moore’s Groove about?
Moore’s groove was a deserted area. Twenty years ago, there was a fire. It was some weird commune. Marina’s mother, Ada Nedifar, lived there until somebody burnt the whole place. They kept some husk of the body alive until Marina was delivered. She was alone in the womb for months.
Don’t be nice to everyone; sometimes you have to have a strong sixth sense.
