A social media couple's camping trip is ruined by filmmakers making a documentary on how easy it is to track someone down off social media and kill them.A social media couple's camping trip is ruined by filmmakers making a documentary on how easy it is to track someone down off social media and kill them.A social media couple's camping trip is ruined by filmmakers making a documentary on how easy it is to track someone down off social media and kill them.
- The Leader
- (as David McMahon)
- Cult Girl #9
- (as Ariel Machelle Hines)
Storyline
Did you know
- Quotes
Nick: My name is Nick, and this is Jake, and we're making a documentary about how easy it is to track people through social media.
Jake: And kill them...
[laughs]
Jake: But not really.
Nick: We're trying to show how dangerous this could be.
Jake: Yeah.
Nick: What we're doing here is we want to show everyone that people are kind of free with the information they put online these days. So we want to get that information and really take advantage of it. So what we did is we found a YouTube celebrity couple online that frequently blogs about their personal lives. I tracked them down through their social media accounts, and they're going to be our target couple. So we're going to track them down, give them a big scare, and hopefully we'll shed some light on this subject.
Jake: Yeah, we want to really show everybody just how dangerous this all is.
- Crazy creditsProducer & Writer Ian Longen plays the man in the bed in the opening scene.
I also think the film tries to do waaaay too much. However, I think its definitely a commendable effort with a smart script (apart from pacing and a few preachy moments). The way the film connects some of the events are kind of clever, but it ultimately serves no real purpose. But I appreciate that the filmmakers actually spent some time developing the characters. (They just spent way too long doing it.)
"Followers" is no where near the train wreck that others are saying it is. Unfortunately, the bloated pacing and the amount of story beats/plot points crammed in hold it back from being great. I know saying it should've been shorter and then saying it has too much going on might sound contradictory. If you watch it you'll understand.
Overall, I give props to the makers for trying to set their project apart from the rest of indie found footage. It just doesn't hold your attention or stick the landing.
- j-nickturner
- Apr 8, 2020
- Permalink
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Followed
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,350
- Gross worldwide
- $3,350
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1