The Best Social Media Horror Movie You Haven’t Seen Is Getting a Sequel

In 2023, Influencer made io9’s year-end database of the champion movies you mightiness person missed, and we’ve continued to urge it ever since. It’s decidedly 1 you don’t privation to cognize too overmuch astir earlier watching it for the archetypal time—but the rubric hints astatine the taxable matter, and it’s not a spoiler to accidental Influencer is simply a cautionary communicative astir putting excessively overmuch of yourself online. You ne'er cognize who mightiness beryllium paying an unhealthy magnitude of attention, particularly when, say, you’re connected a solo abrogation successful Thailand.

It’s a twist-filled and satisfyingly twisted tale. After a festival run, it streamed connected genre level Shudder, wherever it built up a pursuing though didn’t quite, ahem, spell viral—but contiguous comes quality worthy 1,000 “likes”: Influencer is getting a sequel! And it’s titled, naturally, Influencers.

Even better, arsenic Deadline reports, Influencers has really already wrapped. It’s erstwhile again from writer-director Kurtis David Harder, and brings backmost the archetypal film’s memorable Cassandra Naud, with the summation of Georgina Campbell (Barbarian).

This clip around, the thrills unfold crossed confederate France; according to Deadline, “the sequel watches arsenic a young woman’s chilling fascination with execution and individuality theft sends her beingness into a whirlwind of chaos. Pic deepens a cinematic beingness built astir themes of deception, online identity, and the darker sides of curated personas, offering an expanded canvas compared to the original.”

The commercialized besides has a punctuation from Harder: “With Influencers, I wanted to revisit the themes of power and illusion, but from a caller angle—one that’s much seductive, much dangerous, and much unhinged,” said Harder. “It’s a movie that plays with perception. Fans of Influencer volition consciousness thing acquainted beneath the surface, but the existent amusive is discovering conscionable however heavy those connections run.”

Yes, helium did so committedness the sequel is more unhinged than the original, and we can’t hold to spot however helium pulls that off. Shudder erstwhile again picked up the rights successful English-speaking countries—there’s nary merchandise day yet—and the movie volition question planetary organisation astatine this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

You tin (and should) ticker 2023’s Influencer connected Shudder now.

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