In 2021, director James Rich made Follower, an hour-long film in which three friends on a backpacking trip found themselves stalked by a mysterious individual recording their every move.

A year after surviving this brutal attack, Heather (Revell Carpenter) and Riley (Molly Leach) have survived and once again find themselves struggling to survive as a dark web cult has descended upon them and wants to destroy them live and streaming for the whole world — or at least those that follow influencers — to see.

Over the last few years, movies where young adults return home to settle the affairs of their dead parents have seemed to dominate streaming movies. This year, it seems like influencers being stalked and killed is the new idea that creatives are tackling.

This has definite tones of You’re Next with the animal-masked home invaders bringing weapons into the home filled with people that you pretty much can’t wait to get wiped out. I dig the papier-mache-looking visages that they wear, however, and obviously, creatives like Rich are attracted to this influencer slasher sub-genre because not only is it such a part of our daily online life, but like I said above, you don’t want to admit just how much you’d like to some of these people deal with events like this movie. You just don’t want to say that out loud because, well, it makes you a horrible person. A more horrible person whose entire life is spent in front of a camera creating a false reality that no normal person can live up to and which causes people to unfairly judge themselves? That debate would take longer than this movie and some words about it can figure out.

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