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Follow Her goes off the rails (in the best way possible) soon enough. The film’s commentary on accountability online is razor sharp, cutting deep and leaving long, oozing gashes. It’s a smash of an adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

[Dani] Barker and [Luke] Cook give excellent turns in their respective roles while the direction balances the tone meticulously.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 12, 2023

Layering subversion upon subversion until it becomes a version of the thing it was subverting in the first place, Follow Her struggles to land the final stretch, but strong performances and writing carry it through.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2023

Follow Her touches on everything from sex work to misogyny, with each dangled topic brushed to the side before any real perspective can even be established.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2023

Smart, with a lot of twists you won't see coming but don't strain credibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2023

There are really two movies happening here... Both have their merits, but they don't mesh well.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2023

Follow Her never figures out what to do with its self-referential premise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2023

The ethical boundaries of social media continually comes up. While never subtle, the issue is relegated to a passing comment or scene. The finale puts everything front and central while leaving anyone watching wondering how far people will go for fame.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | May 29, 2023

Follow Her stands head and shoulders above most of its "social media horror" peers because it doesn’t forget to have fun.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2023

It’s muddled and messy in places, but there’s a lot of fun here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2022

Follow Her should be a breath of fresh air, and a return to a genre that gets little screentime in our current film landscape. Unfortunately, what unfolds instead is a clumsy, incoherent, and heavy-handed attempt to comment on a mountain of issues

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 23, 2022

Follow Her isn’t a traditional horror film but it plays cannily with the genre to deliver a dark comedy that is also a pointed rebuke at people who spend their lives curating a personality for consumption.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2022

The fact that Follow Her succeeds at being fun, meta, and thought-provoking, while also being a low budget, female-led project, makes this an exceptional movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2022

Follow Her can’t decide whether it’s a throwback erotic thriller, a #MeToo-inspired tale of misogyny in the film industry or a dark, twisty vision of influencers’ manipulations being cast back at them.

Full Review | Oct 28, 2022

Its playful tossing of expectations is a wild ride to go on.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2022

Follow Her has an insightful perspective on influencer culture and what that has done to storytelling. It also asks questions about victim-blaming, of which Jess is potentially guilty as well as those who'd suggest she put herself in this situation.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2022

Sylvia Caminer’s feature narrative directorial debut Follow Me is a twisted cautionary tale and a clever skewering of internet celebrity.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 14, 2022

Follow Her taunts mind, body, and spirit to achieve its true impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Oct 10, 2022

Cook and Barker have a playful, sexy dynamic, which carries the film in-between all the narrative twists. Follow Her is one of the better social media horrors we’ve recently had and one that’ll surely stir up conversation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2022

The rise and rise of social media has definitively blurred the line between consent and content [...] This brings us to Follow Her (2022), a brutal, succinct and fast-paced story about some very modern anxieties.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2022

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Follow Her – Movie Review (4/5) [FANTASPOA 2022]

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Apr 20, 2022 | 4 minutes

FOLLOW HER is a new psychological thriller with lots of horror elements. A simple but strong story that surprises again and again. Also, it is chockful of pop culture references, which makes it very meta. In all the right ways, fortunately. Screened for Fantaspoa 2022. Read our full Follow Her movie review here!

FOLLOW HER is a new psychological thriller that just premiered at the Fantaspoa film festival in Portugal. There it won several awards and when you watch it, you’ll understand why. Officially, it’s labeled a “psycho-sexual thriller” which is absolutely accurate. However, I would argue that it also features moments of straight-up horror.

YOU’LL LIKE THIS IF YOU ENJOYED The horror-comedy  Scare Me  – read our review here and find it on Shudder >

The movie (which also had the working title Classified Killer ) has a runtime of 95 minutes, which is also to its advantage. You won’t get a chance to be bored with this one, because it continuously surprises – often in absolutely brilliant ways.

Continue reading our Follow Her movie review below.

It’s all very meta

Follow Her is chockful of pop culture references as well as being very meta. For the longest time, you won’t be sure if what’s happening is real or just pretend. Neither does the main protagonist which makes for a very uncomfortable experience for both her and us.

Ultimately, you will get all the answers. Whether you like them is another thing. I did!

However, I suspect not everyone will. Also, the fact that it’s billed as “female-created” will definitely keep some people from watching it. That will be  their  loss. Just like you will be wrong to assume that men are “bad” and women are “good” in this story. It’s much more complex than that. As it should be!

Brilliant duo leads

Okay, calling the two main characters a “duo” might be over-selling their roles in this movie. However, their interactions are what makes the story in Follow Her  work so damn well.

The main protagonist, Jess Peters, is portrayed by Dani Barker ( Starvival ), who is also the screenwriter of Follow Her . Across from her, we have Luke Cook who plays the screenwriter (and possibly demented serial killer) Tom Brady in the movie. The two of them have amazing chemistry and banter.

It becomes a cat-and-mouse game where you’ll keep wondering who is the cat and who is the mouse. Also, is it really a game or something much more dangerous.

Whatever it is, you’ll be immensely entertained on the road to finding out. Dani Barker is great as the person guiding the audience while Luke Cook (Lucifer Morningstar on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ) is brilliant as portraying the very umm “eccentric” Tom Brady. I enjoyed watching every minute with him. Even though I never trusted him – which you shouldn’t from everything you see and hear!

Watch  Follow Her  as soon as you get the chance!

Sylvia Caminer is the director of  Follow Her which was written by the star of the film, Dani Barker. As far as I can tell, this is the feature film debut of Sylvia Caminer. She’s worked on short films, TV series documentaries, and feature-length documentaries before though, so she’s quite the experienced director already.

As mentioned initially,  Follow Her  premiered at the Fantaspoa film festival in Portugal where it won several awards. For me, one award tends to be the most important, when I’m to figure out if I should prioritize watching it; The Audience Award. And yes, it did win that one along with Best Film and Best Actress. All of them are very much deserved!

If you weren’t quite sure if this was for you, then please take this as a sign to make sure you check it out as soon as you can. It is  very much  worth your time!

UPDATE: Follow Her is coming to limited theaters and VOD platforms on June 2, 2023.

FOLLOW HER was screened as part of Fantaspoa 2022. For more information on the festival, please visit www.fantaspoa.com .

Director: Sylvia Caminer Writer: Dani Barker Stars: Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones & Mark Moses

Struggling actress and live-streamer Jess Peters (Dani Barker), known to her online followers as J-PEEPS, has finally found her hook: Secretly filming creepy interactions she encounters via online job listings, and using the kinks of others to fuel her streaming success. For her next episode, she’s been hired to write the ending of a screenplay in a remote, lavish cabin. Once there, Tom (Luke Cook), the alluring self-proclaimed screenwriter, hands her a script in which the two of them are the main characters. This client isn’t what he seems, and even though the money’s great… the real payment here could cost her life.

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Have you ever been watching Deathtrap and wished it was a more serious horror-thriller than the comedy it is? Then director Sylvia Caminer and writer-star Dani Barker’s Follow Her is for you. They throw a bit of Dot The I and Cam in for good measure. For anyone familiar with those titles, yes, that is a lot of meta coming at once.

Jess (Dani Barker) is an aspiring screenwriter with a burgeoning social media presence. Her niche is to take odd job postings, film them, blur out the people’s faces, and then post what happens on her channel. She often trends comparatively high, though she never quite cracks the coveted Top 10. But Jess sees that in her latest video, the blurring software glitched, and the man’s face can be seen. Against her first instinct, Jess leaves the footage up and searches for her next job.

Said gig is with Australian Tom Brady (Luke Cook); no, seriously, his name is Tom Brady, and he’s from Australia. Tom has written a screenplay but cannot crack the female lead, so he’s hired Jess to help him gain some perspective. The heat the two share simmers from their first meeting and slowly builds as he shows her his place. Then the cracks begin to show. Tom says contradictory things, alerting Jess that he might not be on the level. Pretty soon, what is real and what is part of their script versus her online videos all merge into one. That’s when things turn violent, potentially with deadly consequences.

Follow Her is captivating at every turn until it’s not. The setup is great, establishing Jess as more concerned about her views than the people she’s taping. Tom is the same, as he’s more interested in manipulating Jess for his own means than seeing her as a person. This puts the audience in a precarious position, as both leads are mean and unlikeable. But that is what makes the screenplay so compelling. By leaning hard into Jess and Tom’s parallels, Barker’s script keeps the tension of what will happen and to who immeasurably high.

“… what is real and what is part of their script versus her online videos all merge…”

Caminer’s direction also maintains the thrills. She effortlessly balances the personal drama involving Jess and her father with the horrific actions befalling her later on. Or is all of it staged to prove a point that anyone can make their audience see only what they wish? It is very compelling food for thought that sticks in the mind well after the credits roll.

However, the ending of Follow Her robs viewers of seeing if Jess learned anything or is the same. She must make a choice, and that choice is not seen. The ambiguity is likely to be part of the overall impact, letting audiences decide who Jess truly is. But it just seems like the filmmakers couldn’t make a hard decision.

However, the acting more than makes up for this bump in the road. Barker is brilliant. She turns Jess into someone audiences want to make it to the end despite her actions. Cook is smooth and creepy all at once, making Tom truly unpredictable. The two smolder in every scene together, even when viciously attacking each other. Their chemistry is high here.

Follow Her does not end in the best or most satisfying way. But until the last 20 seconds or so, the movie is engrossing. Barker and Cook give excellent turns in their respective roles while the direction balances the tone meticulously. The story structure and characters are compelling, while their actions are intentionally offputting. Plus, the meta-angle isn’t overplayed and is used just enough to make everyone watching question where the plot will go next.

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To me "Follow Her" was a remarkable surprise. The first five minutes is what you have to get through to take you to what I thought was a pretty masterful web of twists and turns. My partner wanted to switch it off after those first five minutes purely because it looked to be one of those films that you had to read through as dialogue was limited to text messages and emojis, however when you watch the journey our protagonist takes to meet the handsome Tom Brady played by the impressive Luke Cook the whole film takes a huge turn and has you guessing all the way to the finale. The script is cleverly written and they include jump scares that really aren't every now and then to keep you on your toes. The twist at the end if well thought out making Follow Her a film I'd happily recommend to anyone wanting a different type of thriller than the norm. With Follow Her, what you expect to happen won't and that's what keeps you hooked from the moment our two main stars meet in the middle of nowhere. The performances of Luke Cook and Dani Barker suggest we should, and hopefully will, be seeing plenty of more of them over the future.

Follow Her is a pretty cool thriller to be frank. Not like Fatal Attraction or similar but cool enough to watch. You have the main female protagonist who's trying to get going as an actress, she applies for something she finds in the small-ads and you get a bitter and twisted guy playing a game of revenge. Some neat jumpy bits mixed with a few twists give Follow Her a sexiness that makes it very watchable, especially on a Friday or Saturday night with an above average bottle of wine. Yes, Follow Her doesn't have the all-star cast, nor does it rain with a mass budget but everything is well made and the storyline works well with its simplicity. You might laugh at the predictability but I think that's the point with these films that go straight from the cutting floor to the TV programming schedule. As a thirty-something female I enjoyed it. I wouldn't go out looking to watch Follow Her again but if it were on TV in a few months I can confidently say I'd be happy to leave it on. Follow Her is a cool and sexy thriller that won't take many of your brain cells to watch but will leave you happy you haven't wasted the last hour and a half. Believe me there are lots worse out there and you shouldn't be disappointed by this Sylvia Caminer directed twisted thriller.

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Follow her (2022) film review – revenge is a dish best served digitally.

Follow Her is a 2022 American horror thriller, written by Dani Barker and directed by Sylvia Caminer. Aspiring actress/social media influencer Jess responds to a mystifying classified ad to work on a movie script in hopes of seizing the opportunity to further her career. However, she finds herself trapped in her new boss’s twisted revenge fantasy.

The story does an outstanding job of introducing Jess and her personality concisely. Her ignorance when it comes to proper practice when filming a second party solidifies her desire to create content above all else – even common decency. Secretly filming people at their most vulnerable in an effort to garner more popularity knows no bounds, even keeping content that reveals personal information that could be very damaging to their credibility. Additionally, the protagonist has an air of unlikability about her, excellently portrayed by the film’s writer Dani Barker in this lead role. Reinforced through Jess’s interactions with those close to her, their attitudes towards her and her line of work indicate that she has used them in her content against their will before – their tolerance for her lifestyle and attitude beginning to growing thin.

Though seeming somewhat predictable towards the beginning, the film soon evolves as it progresses into its second and third acts. Beginning as a scenario of questionable decisions made by our protagonist such as meeting a stranger alone in a secluded area on the promise of a paying writing job as well as accompanying him to his secluded farmhouse, Follow Her alludes to something darker than the stereotypical abduction archetype. Consequently, spiraling into a scenario fitting of an episode of Black Mirror with an organic twist completely unexpected until it’s thrust upon the audience.

Utilizing its New York backdrop effectively, the film features stylish cinematography throughout. The implementation of sweeping drone shots for a birds-eye view of the varied scenery the state has to offer, along with sleek camera work and excellent framing is a real feast for the eyes throughout. Effective administration of this framing creates a fantastic tool of revelation throughout, further progressing the story’s darker underlying aspects naturally. Consisting of various different camera techniques, this combination of styles elevates Follow Her ‘s overall style dramatically.

Along with this impressive level of cinematography persists an intrinsic soundtrack to further the tension, building from low drones into a crescendo that accompanies the film’s twisting revelations admirably. This developing score successfully avoids progressing in vain of jump scare territory, instead increasing the inherent terror of the situation itself to be the object of attention.

Exceeding my expectations, this delightful diversion from the expected will certainly take most audiences by surprise. Along with its sleek visual style and effective sound design, this character study of the modern-day social media content creator certainly has some unique ideas executed with due diligence. Undoubtedly, Follow Her will captivate those desiring something to avert their expectations and deliver something unexpected.

We watched Follow Her as part of the 2022 Fantasopa Film Festival

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‘Follow Her’ Fantaspoa Review – Clever Indie Thriller Asks How Far You Would Go to Be Internet Famous

In recent years, social media has become more than just a way to make new friends and stay in touch with old ones; it’s now possible to become a celebrity by simply filming yourself doing random things and posting the videos for the world to see. People use their YouTube channels and TikTok feeds to share their videos, or content, to become internet famous and even to get paid. The indie thriller Follow Her , which screened at this year’s Fantaspoa Film Festival , uses content creators to imaginatively turn the tables on some common genre tropes.

Follow Her immediately introduces us to Jess, played by Dani Barker , as she films herself torturing a man locked in a freezer, begging her not to stop. Jess has a channel called ‘Classified Crazies’ on a social media platform called The Hive, where she posts videos of herself doing degrading things with men for money. Jess is an aspiring actress and screenwriter who answers classified ads from these men and promotes her channel as exposing bad guys to protect the public, but the film ultimately poses the question of who the real protagonist of the story is.

Jess has a cat named Squeakers and lives in apartment owned by her father, while making money from the ads she responds to, with the hope of monetizing her channel if she can make the Top 10 on The Hive. After answering an ad for a gum commercial, which turns out to be a man who wants to tickle her to satisfy his fetish, she posts a video of the encounter and accidentally shows the man’s face. She then must decide whether to leave the video online or delete it to protect the man’s identity. When an account with millions of followers shares the video, causing it to go viral, Jess gains thousands of new subscribers and decides to leave the video up.

Expertly directed by Sylvia Caminer , Follow Her relies on a clever script written by Dani Barker, who gives an outstanding performance as Jess. The film brilliantly causes the viewer to empathize with her, while realizing she is increasingly unlikable as the story progresses. Jess frequently wears glasses that have a tiny camera attached and carries a small pin with a camera, so she can livestream anything anywhere anytime. Does she really want to help people or is she obsessed with becoming internet famous? Despite the fact her father keeps telling her to get a real job, while also reminding her that filming people without their consent is an invasion of privacy, Jess answers an ad seeking a writer for an erotic screenplay, “in the vein of Hitchcock.” This is when the real fun begins.

Luke Cook , who you might recognize as Lucifer from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , plays the provocative Tom Brady, who wants to hire Jess to write the ending to his screenplay. Jess is frantically trying to get a cell signal to let her followers know where she is, since her friend Kia ( Eliana Jones ), who was supposed to go with her to meet Tom, cancelled at the last minute. When Tom asks Jess to go to his house with him so he can pick up the script they’re supposed to be working on, she notices the first of many red flags. Tom’s house turns out to be a barn in the middle of nowhere, and regardless of the fact he paid her a hundred dollars just for showing up, Jess is fixated on obtaining cell service. She seems to be more concerned with the fact she is unable to livestream than she is about her safety.

Luke Cook and Dani Barker have a sizzling onscreen chemistry that is impossible to ignore as Jess and Tom embark on a twisted game of cat-and-mouse. Each time Jess attempts to steer the conversation towards the thriller she’s supposed to be co-writing, Tom does something to distract her, like kissing her. When Tom finally lets Jess read the screenplay for ‘Classified Killer,’ she is horrified to discover the story is happening in real-time; every aspect of her day has been documented in the script. She is surrounded by cameras and is the star of a film in which she must try and survive until the end, and all of it is being livestreamed to her followers.

Jess is eventually invited to join a group of filmmakers, who call themselves The Collective, and have been watching her for a long time. Their goal is to create “real content” with real people, making those who want to be internet celebrities infamous. The final act of Follow Her ingeniously reveals Jess’ true motives, while also leaving a lot up to the audience’s imagination. Cook is wickedly charming as Tom and his playful back-and-forth with Jess is both delightful and terrifying. Ultimately Barker’s remarkable portrayal of Jess forces us to confront our obsession with internet celebrities, as well as our own online presence. The fact that Follow Her succeeds at being fun, meta, and thought-provoking, while also being a low budget, female-led project, makes this an exceptional movie.

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Follow Her Movie

Who's Involved:

Mark Moses, Eliana Jones, Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Brian Vincent, Cristala Carter, Sylvia Caminer

Release Date:

Friday, June 2, 2023 Limited

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Jess (Dani Barker) has finally found her hook: secretly filming creepy interactions she encounters via online job listings, and using the kinks of others to fuel her streaming success. For her next episode, she’s been hired by Tom (Luke Cook) to write the ending of a screenplay in a remote, lavish cabin. Once there, the alluring self-proclaimed screenwriter hands her a script in which the two of them are the main characters. This client isn’t what he seems, and even though the money’s great... the real payment here could cost her life. Follow Her is a psycho-sexual thriller which questions the ethical boundaries of social media.

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Screamfest movie review: 'Follow Her' leads viewers down gripping path

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Follow Her , which screened Thursday at the Screamfest horror film festival in Los Angeles, has an interesting take on the two-hander thriller. Its commentary on social media culture is an insightful bonus.

Jess Peters (Dani Baker,who also wrote the script) is trying to make it as an influencer, performing fetish videos for everything from Dominatrix to tickling interests. She's not making ends meet, though, and her father (Mark Moses) is about to cut her off and sell her apartment. Advertisement

Jess responds to a job listing for a screenwriter. Tom (Luke Cook) is charming and makes good on paying her, but as their work progresses, he contrives unusual ways to keep Jess from leaving.

Follow Her sets itself apart from many generic horror movies immediately by making it a real drama about an ambitious girl and a disapproving dad. She's not just fodder for a killer, but has a professional reason for getting in this situation, and it's less sketchy than other offers in her field of business. Advertisement

The awkward encounters of booking gigs online is a modern-day issue in any profession, not just online performing. And like the most dangerous threats, Tom is really good at appearing safe at first.

There's a seduction, as well as the business partnership. Baker and Cook have real chemistry that blurs the line, even if the audience is already screaming, "Don't go back to his house!"

By the time Jess reads the beginning of Tom's script, it's disturbingly personal. That's when Jess gets the feeling she should leave.

Tom has a way of pulling back just when he's starting to get creepy, so even the viewer may question whether he's really dangerous or just awkward. But the whole scenario of Jess at a stranger's house puts the viewer on her side.

The weirdest part is that he won't leave for dinner when Jess suggests food. She can't work hungry, so his deflections indicate he's not really interested in quality writing.

Tom gets more overt with his threatening behavior. But Jess also uses her skills as a performer to turn the tables.

Performing is Jess's world. If Tom is going to insist on playing games, she's good at role playing.

Most of Follow Her takes place in Tom's house between the two. The charismatic leads carry the script's effective twists and turns. Sylvia Caminer directs the leads well through different setups throughout the house. Advertisement

Follow Her has an insightful perspective on influencer culture and what that has done to storytelling. It also asks questions about victim-blaming, of which Jess is potentially guilty as well as those who'd suggest she put herself in this situation.

The film's depiction of smartphone usage is accurate, too, even if they use fake social media platforms. The non-trademarked sites featured in Follow Her still work the same way Instagram and YouTube do.

When Jess is recording, Caminer displays Jess' phone screen in a split screen. This shows the contrast of the actual scene and what she's showing her viewers.

Baker and Caminer have something to say about whether social media empowers women as much as its most successful proponents may feel. Yet, it never sacrifices the tension of the thriller to make its point.

Fred Topel, who attended film school at Ithaca College, is a UPI entertainment writer based in Los Angeles. He has been a professional film critic since 1999, a Rotten Tomatoes critic since 2001 and a member of the Television Critics Association since 2012. Read more of his work in Entertainment.

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Everybody knows that social media can be dangerous. Information available online can easily be used against us, but the World Wide Web can hurt us in other ways. This is just one of the ideas explored in director Sylvia Caminar’s Follow Her . Add to this a debate around permission and consent, and some stellar gender politics, and you have the perfect storm for a seductive thriller. 

Written by Dani Barker, Follow Her tells the story of Jess (played by Dani Barker), an aspiring actress, desperate for fame and fortune. Around her auditions she attempts to make a living on ‘live hive’ as ‘J Peep’. Her channel involves Jess answering unusual classified ads online and then secretly filming her encounters. Then after answering an advert for a screenwriting gig, she gets more than she expected. Through this encounter, she meets the charismatic Tom Brady (Luke Cook) to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the job progresses, Jess finds herself in a game of gender politics and power plays. 

For the narrative of Follow Her to work, it’s best to go in with little prior knowledge. This is a film that twists and distorts, and never quite travels the expected path. As Jess and Tom work on their script, a meta-commentary begins. This informs their actions and it’s fascinating to see how they work together. There’s a great amount of tension between Tom and Jess, and not all of it is threatening. There’s a frision of sexual tension that passes between the pair, though Jess’ attraction to Tom leadis her to potential danger. Jess initially presents herself as being quite savvy, so it’s interesting to see her start to crumble when faced with a handsome man. 

What makes Follow Her even more interesting is that Jess is a complicated character, one that is hard to like. The manner in which Jess is introduced doesn’t ingratiate her to the audience. Whilst played with a hint of humour, the opening montage of her projects points to someone who is awfully self-centred. She appears to view people as commodities, whose value is based on how many followers, likes, or views they can generate. Jess looks at the world through the business eyes of social media and in doing so has lost touch with herself. Placing herself in harm’s way doesn’t immediately elicit sympathy for her. Jess has to earn the audience’s respect and prove that she’s not just some vapid egocentric starlet. It’s a role that requires a lot of time and effort and so who better to play her than the writer that created her. Barker is fantastic in the part and helps make Jess a compelling lead character. 

People always praise the good boy and girl canines in films, but here it’s a feline that is worthy of some praise. The beloved pet of Jess, Squeakers, is a beautiful tabby cat and one that knows how to emote. Whether it’s the initial meeting in which the cat  is screaming that it’s hungry, or later in the film when it’s clearly wary of something unseen, it’s a great animal performance. The cat might not be as prominent as some dog characters, but its inclusion is a great touch that adds a layer of realism to the piece. When first introduced to Jess, the audience knows little about her, and what they do know doesn’t paint her in the best light. The addition of Squeakers allows Jess to demonstrate a softer side, helping endear her to the audience.

Visually, Follow Her screams to the youth audience. The opening titles are super slick and attention grabbing. As Jess is someone who lives online, chunks of Follow Her include aspects of modern technology. Caminar weaves the use of text, email, live-stream footage, around the more traditional shooting structure to create a style that is more appealing than just text on a tiny screen. The modernity of Jess’ life contrasts with the appearance of the barn location (in which much of the story is set). This building is all exposed wood and decorated with antique pianos. It’s a visual representation of the clash between Jess and Tom and their differing views and opinions. This is a subtle approach that helps reinforce the message. Follow Her clearly has had a lot of thought and attention put into it. 

If there were to be a slight downfall of Follow Her it would be the pacing. The film starts super strong and has an excellent middle section, but as it approaches its finale, it fizzles out somewhat. As with much of the rest of the movie, there’s a sudden switch just when you think it’s about to be over. These final scenes don’t quite feel cohesive with the rest and the jar deflates some of the hard-earned tension. The ending does, however, open itself up to analysis. Slightly ambiguous in nature, the climax turns the table on the viewer, prompting them to take a look at themselves and think about how they might approach the situation. 

Although exploring gender dynamics and conventions, Follow Her has a strong female voice throughout. Thanks in part to it being both written and directed by women, the film is shot and constructed in a way that appeals to a female audience. For a genre so heavily seen as ‘men only’, it’s refreshing to see a film that purposefully sets out to capture the equally genre-mad audience. A bold and ambitious film, Follow Her constantly subverts expectations and gives the viewer plenty of food for thought. Seductively engrossing and enticingly dark, Follow Her is a thriller made for women by women. 

A thriller for The Hills and Kardashian generation, Follow Her is a thoroughly modern exploration of gender politics and power plays. 

Follow Her was reviewed at Arrow Video FrightFest 2022. 

Kat Hughes is a UK born film critic and interviewer who has a passion for horror films. An editor for THN, Kat is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. She has bylines with Ghouls Magazine, Arrow Video, Film Stories, Certified Forgotten and FILMHOUNDS and has had essays published in home entertainment releases by Vinegar Syndrome and Second Sight. When not writing about horror, Kat hosts micro podcast Movies with Mummy along with her five-year-old daughter.

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Follow Her review.

Follow Her continues the pattern of movie releases with confusing messages about social media. But it does so while having a lot of fun.

New movie reviews will not contain spoilers.

Directed by Sylvia Caminer

Written by Dani Barker

Starring Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones and Mark Moses

There is a moment in the third act of Follow Her that puts a thoughtful spin on the common messaging of these types of movies.  Our protagonist is tied to a chair in front of a camera that is live streaming to her followers.  The antagonist painfully rips out the extensions carefully woven into her hair.  Her fake eyelashes are the next to go.  Without hammering the point until your eyes roll back… Follow Her makes clear its message that the person you see online isn’t who they appear to be.  That’s the prevailing message of these types of movies.  It’s been done better than it is done in Follow Her .  But it’s been done far worse.

Jess (Dani Barker) is a down on her luck internet personality.  Relying on livestream revenue to get by, she takes jobs servicing clients fetishes and filming them without their knowledge.  When a video she uploads accidentally reveals the identity of a client Jess is faced with a choice.  Take down the video…or let its popularity catapult her into higher earning potential.  When she takes a job as a writing partner for the charismatic Tom (Luke Cook) Jess discovers the script is all about her.

Follow Her is one of those movies that doesn’t have enough subplots to throw you off its endgame.  It does an admirable job trying…but you’re only given the information that’s going to end up relevant so there can’t be any red herrings.  It’s a testament to its commitment to relying on unexpected moments that the first two acts are as entertaining as they are.  Even if there is little doubt what is ultimately behind the plot… Follow Her offers a lot of fun getting to it.

Barker and Cook have good chemistry.  They also get a lot to play with in what essentially becomes a two person play for a majority of Follow Her .  The moment when Jess reads Tom’s script and discovers that it recaps their own meeting and interactions is a great hook.  The movie carries on with the idea by putting the characters into a situation where they are working out the rest of the script through improv.  It allows Tom to walk the line between playful and menacing.  Jess vacillates between being in control and feeling cornered.

The story picks up steam as it heads towards a sloppy conclusion.  Before it gets there, however, it presents a ride worth taking.  We know Jess is in trouble.  Even Jess knows she’s in trouble even as she convincingly plays along.  We even know why.  If you spend any time thinking about it, anyway.  But that doesn’t mean that Follow Her doesn’t have some tricks up its sleeve.  Unexpected moves moment to moment gives the movie a great pace and sustains interest. 

There is a false climax that would have served as a better ending than Follow Her eventually settles on.  Like Deinfluencer before it, Follow Her can’t help but get on a soap box about something that applies to an incredibly small number of people.  It’s not that the message is bad…it’s that we’ve heard it all before.  It’s also difficult to connect to protagonists when the ultimate message is always that they’re phony and bad.  The ending here isn’t as blatantly stupid as Deinfluencer ’s…but it comes from the same basic idea. 

Luckily, unlike Deinfluencer , Follow Her gives us a good reason to stick with the story until the end.  The leads are very good, and the story has some genuinely interesting and surprising moments.  At least until it ends up taking us exactly where we expected it to all along.  Internet personalities are phony and social media is bad.  There…I saved the next movie the trouble.

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I’m going to be honest…I don’t understand what most of these parables about internet stardom are trying to say. Yes…social media is bad. Yes…internet personalities are phony. All of that is already widely accepted. For some reason we get multiple movies every year with nothing else to say about it. Sissy did it best. Influencer took an interesting angle on it. Deinfluencer is a disaster. Follow Her has more fun with it than most…but still doesn’t have anything new to say.

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Screen Rant is thrilled to present an exclusive new clip from the upcoming thriller Follow Her . The movie centers around Jess, who builds a following through secretly filming clients from online job listings, but things go wrong after she's hired to finish a screenplay at a remote cabin. Follow Her was written by lead actress Dani Barker, who stars alongside The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 's Luke Cook, Alaska Daily 's Mark Moses, and Northern Rescue 's Eliana Jones.

Follow Her begins with Jess Peters discovering her ability to attract viewers through secretly filming the encounters she has during freelance jobs. However, when screenwriter Tom hires her to help write the ending of his script, things quickly go awry. Tom presents Jess with a script in which the two of them are the main characters, and things turn dire as the fate of Jess both on the page and in real life hangs in the balance.

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Screen Rant 's clip centers around a scene where Jess has clearly realized the job she was hired for is much more than she signed up for. Having previously played Lucifer himself in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , Cook is no stranger to playing someone evil, which really comes through in this scene. Although the clip starts with Tom being tied to a bed, it's clear escape is easy for him, counting down from upstairs as Jess tries to escape. Once he reaches one, Tom ominously says, " Here I come ," just as the lights go out.

Both written and directed by women, it seems as though Follow Her will be a psychological thriller with a strong female lead that viewers will be very motivated to root for as she works to escape Tom's clutches. This scene is a great example of how the movie builds suspense and terror, setting the stage for a fast-paced film. Viewers will get to see how the fate of Jess and Tom plays out when Follow Her releases.

Follow Her premieres June 2 in select theaters and on VOD.

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