27 reviews
Obviously this is a genre movie, to be specific: a love-interest obsession thriller. Like.Share.Follow includes the standard features found in such classics as Fatal Attraction, where a spurned former lover undertakes to stalk her object of desire. I am not sure why people hate this movie so much, as there is plenty of suspense and much of the acting is decent. The ending offers a nice and unexpected twist, turning the entire production into a cautionary tale for the internet obsessed. Yes, obsessions can be transferred, and what attracts a person to one thing can just as easily attract another person to the same thing, or the same person to something else.
Like.Share.Follow deserves a 6.5, in my book. No need to watch it a second time, but it is much better than the panners say. Bear in mind, again, that this is indeed a genre obsession thriller, and the requirements of that genre have been satisfied. People who are asking for more are looking for a non-genre creation.
Like.Share.Follow deserves a 6.5, in my book. No need to watch it a second time, but it is much better than the panners say. Bear in mind, again, that this is indeed a genre obsession thriller, and the requirements of that genre have been satisfied. People who are asking for more are looking for a non-genre creation.
- skepticskeptical
- Sep 14, 2019
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Well it's not an original movie in any Way. But I find it to be a pretty entertaining watch. If you're not too snobby you might like it too!
Okay, we have all started watching a movie that was so terrible that we shut it off. This wasn't one of them. It wasn't a high budget film, but the acting was pretty good and the plot kept me interested.
- michellepugh-964-461455
- Sep 28, 2018
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- plamen_xp_lv
- Oct 3, 2018
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I couldn't stop laughing at the total fear in the thought of men having hand to hand combat with a petite 100 pound girl that looked more like the kid in The Bad Seed than anything very sinister. Particularly since she spent her private time crying and rolling around in agony. This story has been told before with a little spin to update it, Garrett is a YouTube 'star' with a lot of followers. I guess the moral could be beware of social media or being famous. Nice little spin at the end also a rip off of Stephen King's Misery. Nothing new here. Overall pretty much a Lifetime television movie.
- gustheaffen
- Nov 12, 2018
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I honestly think this could have been a much better movie. One of the major flaws is the male lead. Also the fact that his ridiculous videos could actually make him famous is just beyond stupid. The only decent thing about this movie was the new actress Ema Horvath. In my opinion i thought she did a very good job and basically carried this film on her shoulders. So for that i give it 3 stars. If it wasn't for the awful male lead and the terrible, flawed plot. This could have been a decent movie.
If you have a chance to watch this movie and its free, sure why not. But i wouldn't even bother going to a redbox to spend a dollar on this garbage.
If you have a chance to watch this movie and its free, sure why not. But i wouldn't even bother going to a redbox to spend a dollar on this garbage.
Like. Share. Follow was much better then I expected. The dim starts out a bit slow but picks up speed at about the 20 minute mark. Garrett is a YouTube star with his Friday night show which is about his life and antics assisted by a couple of friends.
He is very popular and has many viewers. He has a self imposed rule of not getting emotionally involved with any of his 2,000,000 viewers but one girl seems Insistent on meeting him and will do anything at any cost to do so.
Avoiding spoilers at this point, let's just say it's not an original theme and has been done before in the fashion of "Fatal attraction", the king of all stalker films. With that said, however, this film is better then most and keeps you interested throughout. It has some very creepy scenes and the acting is very good. The elements of the plot are simple enough but done without going over the top and without gratuitous violence.
There is a great twist at the end as well. Enough said.
I recommend this film to any fan of the thriller and stalker sub genre....7/10.
He is very popular and has many viewers. He has a self imposed rule of not getting emotionally involved with any of his 2,000,000 viewers but one girl seems Insistent on meeting him and will do anything at any cost to do so.
Avoiding spoilers at this point, let's just say it's not an original theme and has been done before in the fashion of "Fatal attraction", the king of all stalker films. With that said, however, this film is better then most and keeps you interested throughout. It has some very creepy scenes and the acting is very good. The elements of the plot are simple enough but done without going over the top and without gratuitous violence.
There is a great twist at the end as well. Enough said.
I recommend this film to any fan of the thriller and stalker sub genre....7/10.
- stephenw-30180
- Nov 8, 2017
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- MikeHunt1075
- Sep 27, 2018
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Amazing movie! It totally cured my insomnia.. having trouble sleeping years now but this hidden diamond saved me. I wish I had found this movie earlier. Guaranteed sleep in the first 30 mins. LOVED IT
- happymonkey-49379
- Nov 9, 2019
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- voigaswolpertinger
- Nov 11, 2017
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It is an internet movie, unlike Following or Unfriended, more like Thicker than Blood, but in the quality department it lays right in the middle.
I had some fun with Like Share Follow, and I do believe it tried to make the most of its budget and plot, but as Unfriended 2 showed, you can accomplished a great deal if you put some real effort into it. I will recommend this one because it is a decent production, one that should get some attention but I don't think it will turn any heads.
Nothing truly memorable, few scenes that stood out, good acting, good dialogues, overall a film that managed to stand tall on its own.
Cheers!
I had some fun with Like Share Follow, and I do believe it tried to make the most of its budget and plot, but as Unfriended 2 showed, you can accomplished a great deal if you put some real effort into it. I will recommend this one because it is a decent production, one that should get some attention but I don't think it will turn any heads.
Nothing truly memorable, few scenes that stood out, good acting, good dialogues, overall a film that managed to stand tall on its own.
Cheers!
- Patient444
- Feb 21, 2020
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Poor film, poor plot, full of clichés. Little effort on the part of those involved in doing something credible.
- afariasduarte
- Dec 14, 2020
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There's an unsurprising growing trend of showcasing our modern reliance on social media and interconnectivity in as cynical a way as possible, so going into this, I did not have high hopes. In a word, I expected to find this movie tedious, pretentious, and cliched. While it doesn't begin that way, by the end of it, you suddenly realize that you've just witnessed so many hackneyed tropes, while the premise itself has been stretched so far to the breaking point, that the film more or less turns into a caricature of itself, though I suppose you can say it happens too late for you to be filled with a sense of tedium.
Honestly, 20 minutes into the film, I thought I was not only watching something outside the box, but something REALLY good. The whole premise appears to unfold in an extremely organic way; the dialogue is strong; the psychotic obsessive personality of Ema Horvath, I thought was really well portrayed. She actually reminds me of someone I knew in real life, in terms of appearance and mannerisms, and they were every bit as much of a psychopath. I would actually be shocked if this person hasn't fallen into a serious criminal situation by now. Suffice it to say, at this point, they completely won me over based on style, and I thought the film was very well cast.
Onto the character of Keiynan Lonsdale. He comes across as a complete A. Hole, and at first this is what REALLY makes the film seem like it's a cut above. There's a grey line created where he is very much responsible, and a participant in everything bad that's happening to him, because HE'S the one who pursues her at the start. This makes Ema Horvath's character seem human, sympathetic, and in some ways justifiable, so naturally I thought "Wow this is amazing: a REALISTIC portrayal of a stalker scenario that doesn't devolve into absurd caricature where the characters are behaving in a way completely beyond reason or logic... which of COURSE is when the writer/director steps in and says "Not so fast..." and kicks you right to the nuts... You think to yourself, ok that was a bit rude, but maybe this thing can still be turned around. "NO IT CAN'T," the writer/director fires back, then he squats over your face and drops a big steaming log right into your mouth.
Out of nowhere you're barraged with virtually every cheesy hackneyed trope you can think of. For one, way too much planning involved, from Ema Horvath's character. She kills a postal worker so that MAYBE she can get hired as the new postal worker, so that MAYBE Keiynan Lonsdale's character will talk to her, so that MAYBE they can go on a date. Wow, nice master plan, stupid. Literally all you have to do is follow him in as a customer and strike up a conversation with him, and your odds of success would be exactly the same... minus the complication of committing a murder and getting away with it. In movies like this, wouldn't it be so great if she kills the postal worker and then she shows up "So, I hear you're hiring," ... "Yeah and we've found someone else. Go away." It's just so dumb.
I did learn something fascinating from this movie though. If a cop is brutally murdered, apparently other cops don't care. "Hey, Bob just got an arrow through his neck... should we interrogate the stalker girl who keeps having missing people turn up around her?" ... "No, whyever would we do that?" This is the type of stuff you have to accept, aside from the basic fact that cell phone technology pretty much eliminates 90% of every horror movie premise these days. This isn't 1980 where you could just terrorize a group of people all night and they would conceivably be too isolated to call for help. Also, how are we still doing the "Oh no, muh car won't start!" thing. That's not a thing. It NEVER happens. Like I said, just about every trope. What a shame. The ending itself though... I won't spoil it other than to say it's like squashing an ant with a nuke: over-the-top cringe like you wouldn't believe.
Honestly, 20 minutes into the film, I thought I was not only watching something outside the box, but something REALLY good. The whole premise appears to unfold in an extremely organic way; the dialogue is strong; the psychotic obsessive personality of Ema Horvath, I thought was really well portrayed. She actually reminds me of someone I knew in real life, in terms of appearance and mannerisms, and they were every bit as much of a psychopath. I would actually be shocked if this person hasn't fallen into a serious criminal situation by now. Suffice it to say, at this point, they completely won me over based on style, and I thought the film was very well cast.
Onto the character of Keiynan Lonsdale. He comes across as a complete A. Hole, and at first this is what REALLY makes the film seem like it's a cut above. There's a grey line created where he is very much responsible, and a participant in everything bad that's happening to him, because HE'S the one who pursues her at the start. This makes Ema Horvath's character seem human, sympathetic, and in some ways justifiable, so naturally I thought "Wow this is amazing: a REALISTIC portrayal of a stalker scenario that doesn't devolve into absurd caricature where the characters are behaving in a way completely beyond reason or logic... which of COURSE is when the writer/director steps in and says "Not so fast..." and kicks you right to the nuts... You think to yourself, ok that was a bit rude, but maybe this thing can still be turned around. "NO IT CAN'T," the writer/director fires back, then he squats over your face and drops a big steaming log right into your mouth.
Out of nowhere you're barraged with virtually every cheesy hackneyed trope you can think of. For one, way too much planning involved, from Ema Horvath's character. She kills a postal worker so that MAYBE she can get hired as the new postal worker, so that MAYBE Keiynan Lonsdale's character will talk to her, so that MAYBE they can go on a date. Wow, nice master plan, stupid. Literally all you have to do is follow him in as a customer and strike up a conversation with him, and your odds of success would be exactly the same... minus the complication of committing a murder and getting away with it. In movies like this, wouldn't it be so great if she kills the postal worker and then she shows up "So, I hear you're hiring," ... "Yeah and we've found someone else. Go away." It's just so dumb.
I did learn something fascinating from this movie though. If a cop is brutally murdered, apparently other cops don't care. "Hey, Bob just got an arrow through his neck... should we interrogate the stalker girl who keeps having missing people turn up around her?" ... "No, whyever would we do that?" This is the type of stuff you have to accept, aside from the basic fact that cell phone technology pretty much eliminates 90% of every horror movie premise these days. This isn't 1980 where you could just terrorize a group of people all night and they would conceivably be too isolated to call for help. Also, how are we still doing the "Oh no, muh car won't start!" thing. That's not a thing. It NEVER happens. Like I said, just about every trope. What a shame. The ending itself though... I won't spoil it other than to say it's like squashing an ant with a nuke: over-the-top cringe like you wouldn't believe.
This movie is just watchable. Two things make it not believable: 1)how someone can get two millions followers with such a silly YT channel 2)how a young can even think to reject such a gorgeous girl just because she is a fan.
- pieraussie
- Jul 13, 2019
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A very likeable little thriller on obsessive love that has a few unpretentious things to say on the nature of modern day celebritydom, exhibitionism and the conflict on our need to stay anonymous but be seen.
The movie works mainly because we have a likeable main character who feels pulled straight off the net. It's fascinating to take someone who seems at first to be such an embodiment of joy and fun and see the more vulnerable side of their character and to have them deal with a real problem. It makes it 100 times more effective than a lot of TV dramas that might be 10 times more macabre but just have no idea how to make a character just pop off the screen.
As technology turns into the supreme weapon to frame, track and damage someone, a seemingly inescapable nightmare that anyone of us might have been tempted to bait emerges.
It packs a punch.
The movie works mainly because we have a likeable main character who feels pulled straight off the net. It's fascinating to take someone who seems at first to be such an embodiment of joy and fun and see the more vulnerable side of their character and to have them deal with a real problem. It makes it 100 times more effective than a lot of TV dramas that might be 10 times more macabre but just have no idea how to make a character just pop off the screen.
As technology turns into the supreme weapon to frame, track and damage someone, a seemingly inescapable nightmare that anyone of us might have been tempted to bait emerges.
It packs a punch.
- GiraffeDoor
- May 18, 2019
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The first 1 hour of the movie are horrible, the acting is bad, the scenery is bad, it is slow filled with useless sex scenes, dirty language, monotony and that is the downfall of this movie. The last half an hour is good, with very good tension, pace building and a twisted ending which I did not expect. 5/10
Social media fame comes at a price! This movie has a great pace with somewhat convincing performances from the main characters . Entertaining to watch, with a wicked twist of an ending.
- saudaminikulkarni
- Feb 22, 2021
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- iainmcleod_800
- Aug 16, 2024
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Like.Share.Follow was an all around solid thriller... though the guy's YouTube videos sucked it was the least important part of the plot. I feel like this is rated so poorly, because of the way that it ends; however, I feel like content-wise this movie had me on the edge of my seat through the climax.
I feel like this has a great moral to the story of not knowing who exactly you are sharing with when you share online, especially when most of the people you share with are completely anonymous. Don't let its poor rating on here detour you from the film, give it a chance and see what you think.
It kind of reminds me of Amber Alert how it really seems to have a bad rating due to the fact that mostly they tried to make this feel almost TOO real and it seems to devoid a little bit from the "movie" style feel that most may know and love. Don't get me wrong it is still very movie- esque in filming and plot, but it really does have a very... almost eerily real feel to it.
I feel like this has a great moral to the story of not knowing who exactly you are sharing with when you share online, especially when most of the people you share with are completely anonymous. Don't let its poor rating on here detour you from the film, give it a chance and see what you think.
It kind of reminds me of Amber Alert how it really seems to have a bad rating due to the fact that mostly they tried to make this feel almost TOO real and it seems to devoid a little bit from the "movie" style feel that most may know and love. Don't get me wrong it is still very movie- esque in filming and plot, but it really does have a very... almost eerily real feel to it.
- jeffsmithey
- Nov 14, 2017
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- johannes2000-1
- Dec 19, 2022
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I read a few reviews on here and was in two minds about watching this but had a spare few hours so sat down with my wife and watched it thinking it might not be on long as we would switch if off if it was rubbish...
But Its actually a decent movie with some good tension and its a lot better than I thought it would be. I have seen some movies recently with loads of hype and great reviews that were terrible so it good to see a movie that is getting average reviews and I personally had not heard of being such a surprise.
I think Ema Horvath played a great part as Shell in the movie and the whole movie was certainly entertaining with a good ending and well worth watching. Don't believe reviews (even this one) just watch it yourself and see
You might be surprised....
But Its actually a decent movie with some good tension and its a lot better than I thought it would be. I have seen some movies recently with loads of hype and great reviews that were terrible so it good to see a movie that is getting average reviews and I personally had not heard of being such a surprise.
I think Ema Horvath played a great part as Shell in the movie and the whole movie was certainly entertaining with a good ending and well worth watching. Don't believe reviews (even this one) just watch it yourself and see
You might be surprised....
- english_artist
- Feb 1, 2019
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A very smart and realistic movie. The actors are great and it's really fun, exciting and entertaining.
I like this young generation of influencers and the younger psychopath kinda thing, 4he character Shell is interesting and reminds me of the psycho killer ladies in the 90's like Single white female.
This movie could be a blockbuster with super fancy producing, if course, but this kinda independent feeling do the charm!
I you like webb theme horror thriller movies you need to watch this.
What else can I say? I think this is it!
I really liked it. Oh yeah, very careful online kids!! That's always important!
I like this young generation of influencers and the younger psychopath kinda thing, 4he character Shell is interesting and reminds me of the psycho killer ladies in the 90's like Single white female.
This movie could be a blockbuster with super fancy producing, if course, but this kinda independent feeling do the charm!
I you like webb theme horror thriller movies you need to watch this.
What else can I say? I think this is it!
I really liked it. Oh yeah, very careful online kids!! That's always important!
- therre-therre
- Jan 7, 2024
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