![]() ![]() It shouldn’t be considered a spoiler to say that CW’s interest in Madison isn’t nearly as pure as she makes it out to be. ![]() Her trip seemingly takes a turn for the better when she crosses paths one night with CW (Cassandra Naud), a mysterious girl who offers to show her some alternatives to the tourist trap spots that have consumed most of her trip. ![]() When Influencer begins, Madison is in the midst of an unfulfilling, isolated trip to Thailand that she was convinced to take by her ambitious, social media-obsessed boyfriend, Ryan (Rory J. While the film leaves the actual identity of its eponymous “influencer” up to interpretation, its plot, for all intents and purposes, revolves around Madison (Emily Tennant), a successful but lonely social media star. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise then when the film’s third act features an underwater brawl that feels like an inevitable beat for a thriller that is as murky and dangerous as Influencer. Over the course of its 91-minute runtime, the film slowly but surely submerges viewers deeper and deeper beneath its layers of deception, impersonation, and, of course, murder. Influencer’s story doesn’t so much accelerate or ramp up as it gradually unfolds. What’s even more impressive is how the film’s various twists and sudden left turns - of which there are many - are presented. The result is a film that is every bit as crude and mean-spirited as its influences, but far more interestingly structured and sharply focused than its all-too-familiar, trip-abroad-gone-wrong premise may lead you to believe.Īnchored by one mesmerizing, potentially star-making performance, Influencer may not make very many new points about the unspoken artificiality of a social media star’s life, but it does consistently subvert its viewers’ expectations in ways that are often exciting to witness. ![]() The new Shudder exclusive from director and co-writer Kurtis David Harder is a cutthroat, contained thriller that takes the perverse slasher formula of a Brian De Palma classic like Dressed to Kill and updates it for our current social media age. A third-act that gets a bit too twisty for its own good ![]()
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