Story: Hey, New Year’s Eve party at my place y’all!  Isn’t it fantastic to be on Winter Break — college ruuuuuuulz!  What’s that stupid stuff on TV about locking your doors?  And why are people freaking out on Facebook Social Redroom?  Wait, why is your nose bleeding?  Can you hear me?  Why are you… Aaaaaah!

Scares: Zero if you’ve ever seen a zombie show ever in your life.  But there are a few fun scenes of Coming To Get You Barbara that may freak out the noobs.

Splat factor: Lots of bloody noses.  Lots of on-Skype blood, which looks blue.  But the climax is suitably gory, though not for the reason you’d expect.

Closing scene “shocker”?: Of course.  This film deals with college kids and social media; of course they’re gonna throw in an eye-rolling “twist”.  No, in fact you didn’t get me.

Remake, Sequel or OG (Original Ghoul)?: Original, though the zombie/social media madness/violence sickness thing has been done to death elsewhere in various forms.

Trick or Treat?: At first, I was hopeful.  Using social media like Millennials would actually use it!  Said folks practically glued to their screens, forsaking all others!  Then I realized that the entire film is about how social media use can turn people into raving, violent loonies.  See? Facebook is dangerous! It’s bad for you! Said all parents of Millennial Facebook addicts, while striking the usual older & wiser self-righteous pose. See, social networking makes you Antisocial? Get it? *crickets*

There are a few good things, but not enough to justify a thumbs up.  The claustrophobic behavior of the group that are locked in the house — only 5, a low number of potential victims for the usual horror show — shows itself in various fun ways.  Paranoia — do you have IT? Does someone who fought with an infected now sick? Hey, I’m not sick, honest! There’s also other friends/students chiming in via live feed.  But that’s about it; 25 minutes before the end, I’m battling sleep.   Not a good sign.  That sleep was a better option than keeping my eyes open could have been due to the lack of interest I had in any of the characters.  A girl is pregnant, a guy’s boyfriend/BFF is trapped in the dorms…and I could give two hoots.  Actually, the BF/BFF is the only character I care about in the film, and he’s just a side dude to the story of the 5 people the filmakers couldn’t be bothered to flesh out beyond brief flashes at the Facebook Social Redroom profiles at the start of the show.  (Note: I thought that was an awesome lead-in at the beginning of the film, until I realized that that was all the character development we were gonna get.)

Luckily, “Social Redroom” and it’s Skype-y counterpart Vidi Trap are just so goshdarn adorable!  That makes the film’s basic premise shrug-worthy rather than horrifying.  (Well, that and the film waffles between lackluster dialogue and so-so infected.)  Oh noes – if Antisocial was a real thing, this could mean no more Twitter! NOOOOO! Now that’s the scariest part of this movie.  For horror fans that have watched all the really good stuff on Netflix and want to be entertained by spotting all the ways this could have been a better film.  I’ll start: more buildup, scenes where the entire group comes together to do something more than shriek or freak…

Score: 

2 out of 5 pumpkins.  I’d give it an extra for obviously trying so hard, but the whole sleepy thing at the end docks it a ‘kin.