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

In 2023, Influencer made io9’s year-end list of the best movies you might have missed, and we’ve continued to recommend it ever since. It’s definitely one you don’t want to know too much about before watching it for the first time—but the title hints at the subject matter, and it’s not a spoiler to say Influencer is a cautionary tale about putting too much of yourself online. You never know who might be paying an unhealthy amount of attention, especially when, say, you’re on a solo vacation in Thailand. It’s a twist-filled and satisfyingly twisted tale. After a festival run, it streamed on genre platform Shudder, where it built up a following though didn’t quite, ahem, go viral—but today comes news worth 1,000 “likes”: Influencer is getting a sequel! And it’s titled, naturally, Influencers. Even better, as Deadline reports, Influencers has actually already wrapped. It’s once again from writer-director Kurtis David Harder, and brings back the first film’s memorable Cassandra Naud, wit ... Read full article.