Find Your Friends (2026)

Find Your Friends is a difficult movie to recommend because its biggest problem isn't necessarily the violence. It's the way the characters are presented. I can handle a horror film with flawed, selfish, or openly unpleasant people, but I need some reason to remain invested in what happens to them. Here, I struggled to find anyone whose behavior made the story worth following.

The setup has the potential for an uncomfortable thriller. Putting a group of people into an increasingly dangerous situation can expose their relationships and force them to make difficult choices. The problem is that the characters seem interested in making bad decisions before the danger even requires it. Their behavior becomes so irritating that I started thinking more about how they were written than what was happening in the story.

The dialogue was another issue. Too often the characters seemed to speak without any self-awareness or recognizable sense of consequences. It made them difficult to believe as real people. When everyone is presented as careless or unpleasant, the film loses the contrast that might make one person's actions particularly frightening.

I don't need to like every character in horror. Some of my favorite movies are about terrible people, and a well-made thriller can be fascinating when it explores their behavior. What matters is whether their personalities create tension or reveal something interesting. For me, Find Your Friends didn't do enough of either.

There are disturbing sequences, and I can see why someone might call the movie intense. But intensity alone isn't a substitute for suspense. I was more frustrated than frightened, and that isn't the reaction I want from a survival story. When the premise depends on people making consequential choices, those choices should feel motivated by something more than the needs of the next scene.

I appreciate that the filmmakers were trying to make a dark, uncomfortable movie. I just didn't think the storytelling gave the audience enough to connect with. Find Your Friends left me wishing the characters had been written with more depth and that the danger had grown out of more believable behavior.

This became the first movie in Fear Review history that I actually walked out of before it ended, and it had nothing to do with gore, scares, or violence. Horror has made me uncomfortable plenty of times before. That's part of the genre. What made me leave was that I simply couldn't spend another minute with these characters.

From the opening scenes, every conversation felt like it was trying to outdo the previous one in vulgarity and excess. Every interaction revolved around partying, drinking, drugs, crude dialogue, or insulting each other. After about thirty minutes, I realized I hadn't learned a single meaningful thing about any of these women beyond the lifestyle they were living. I wasn't rooting for anyone because the movie never gave me a reason to.

What disappointed me even more is that the acting wasn't the problem. The cast completely committed to what they were asked to do, and I believed these characters existed in this world. The problem is that I didn't enjoy spending time with them. I kept waiting for a quieter scene where someone showed vulnerability or where the friendships actually felt genuine. Instead, everyone seemed hostile, selfish, or emotionally disconnected from one another.

William later explained where the story eventually goes and I understand the commentary on party culture, privilege, and trauma, but if the audience has already emotionally checked out before the horror truly begins, none of that lands the way it's supposed to.

I also found myself wondering who this movie was really for. Maybe people who lived this exact lifestyle will recognize something authentic in these characters. I certainly didn't. It all felt so exaggerated that I couldn't relate to anyone on screen, and because of that, every dramatic moment felt distant instead of devastating. All of the dialogue between the women on screen was superficial, crass, and so over the top it made we wonder if people actually speak like that in real life.

Ironically, I left before the movie reached the most violent material, and I don't regret that decision. The fact that I was more relieved to leave than curious about how the story ended says everything about my experience. I respect the effort that went into making the film, but for me, this was an easy Don't Bother.