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Influencers

A glossy, twisty horror-thriller with a playful, increasingly unhinged tone that seems to work best when it leans into camp and escalation. It sounds like a sequel that improves on the first film for many viewers, but the uneven plotting and character logic may frustrate anyone wanting tighter suspense or cleaner… Read more

Influencers

Where to watch: Buy

Movie · Horror · Thriller

Sat · 1h 50m

Director: Kurtis David Harder

Starring: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell

Overview

In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

Director

Kurtis David Harder

Cast

Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell

Curator Review

Verdict

A glossy, twisty horror-thriller with a playful, increasingly unhinged tone that seems to work best when it leans into camp and escalation. It sounds like a sequel that improves on the first film for many viewers, but the uneven plotting and character logic may frustrate anyone wanting tighter suspense or cleaner storytelling.

Best for

  • viewers who like stylish, location-driven horror
  • fans of darkly comic slasher energy
  • people who enjoy messy, high-concept thrillers about identity and deception
  • audiences open to tonal shifts and franchise-y excess

Skip if

  • you need airtight plotting
  • you dislike camp or tonal whiplash
  • you want serious, grounded psychological horror
  • you are turned off by characters making implausible choices

Overview

Set against the sunlit luxury of Southern France, Influencers uses postcard beauty as a trapdoor into something nastier and more absurd. The premise has a strong hook: murder, identity theft, and a young woman whose fascination with both pushes the story into a spiral of reinvention and violence. That contrast between glamorous surfaces and rotten impulses gives the film its most appealing charge.

Worth noting

The reaction pattern suggests a sequel that goes bigger, looser, and more self-aware than the first film. When it clicks, that means sharper laughs, nastier turns, and a sense of anything-goes momentum; when it doesn’t, the plotting can feel holey and the characters can seem to exist mainly to service the next twist. It sounds less interested in realism than in escalation.

Bottom line

If you like horror that behaves a little like a luxury vacation gone feral, this is probably worth the ride. If you need discipline, emotional depth, or a mystery that holds together under scrutiny, it may be more irritating than satisfying. The appeal is in the vibe, the audacity, and the willingness to keep pushing until the whole thing starts hissing.

Top Letterboxd reviews

Pipingskie (3.5★) · 618 likes

Hope they turn this into a franchise and just keep stacking S each sequel. By the 10th installment it’s just hissing. Influencerssssssssssssssssssss.

_modino (2★) · 453 likes

This movie would be so hard to explain to a medieval peasant

Sean Fennessey · 422 likes

My new favorite franchise.

Horror Syndrome (3★) · 336 likes

Why are the evil killer lesbians always the most attractive?

cob (5★) · 322 likes

THATS WHAT IM FUCKING TALKING ABOUT

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Themes

identity theft, murder, obsession, deception, class satire, vacation horror, tonal whiplash, female-led thriller

Topics

horror-thriller, dark comedy, identity swap, psychological suspense, vacation setting, stylish visuals, campy tone, queer-coded menace, modern slasher, satirical

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