
Text(2008)
Four friends search for the answers to a series of deadly text messages killing students at their high school.
An interactive horror startup gives thrill-seekers a way to send scares to friends and family… but when potential investors host a demonstration, the experience gets hijacked by a real masked killer with a deadly agenda.

Victoria Justice

Robbie Amell

Noel Fisher

Mackinlee Waddell

Matt Gomez Hidaka

Tim Heidecker
Send a Scare is a horror, thriller film. Directed by Josh Trank, it stars Victoria Justice, Robbie Amell, Noel Fisher. An interactive horror startup gives thrill-seekers a way to send scares to friends and family… but when potential investors host a demonstration, the experience gets hijacked by a real masked killer with a deadly agenda.
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