I Find a New Horror Film About Bullying Kind of Offensive [VIDEO]

Here's something you may or may not know (actually, that's true of everything). I am not easily offended. Actually, it's quite difficult to offend me. But I have to say, "I think I'm offended."

Periodically, I go to a YouTube page that posts new movie trailers on a regular basis. I love going to the movies and am always looking for something new to watch.

(By the way, right now, the landscape is sort of...meh)

I ran across a trailer for a new horror movie set to be released on April 17th called Unfriended.

It's a "found footage" movie about a girl who is humiliated online until she commits suicide. Soon after, those who were the apparent bullies are picked off one by one in customary, found-footage, supernatural-type fashion.

And I think it's a little appalling. Here's MTV taking an extremely troubling trend like bullying and using it as a source for a revenge/horror/slasher film? I guess maybe it's not so much "slasher" considering the supernatural aspect, but you see what I mean.

Whether it's the intent or not, this film seems to be taking the horrible plague of bullying very lightly.

Maybe some would think I'm overreacting, but that was my immediate gut feeling upon watching the trailer.

Trust me, a good, honest, well-written, well-acted film about the subject of bullying would be quite welcome. And, perhaps, necessary.

This isn't that film, or so it seems.

But you be the judge. Here's the trailer:

Then again, if a movie like this, no matter how silly and inexcusably bad it might be, will make teenagers think before they destroy, then that's a win.