Movie · 2025 · Horror, Thriller · 1h 50m · English
Curator score: 3.0/10 (18K ratings)
We all have to start somewhere.
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.
Ratings
Curator score: 3.0/10
IMDb: 5.9/10
Letterboxd: 3.08/5
Metacritic: 75
TMDB: 6.4/10
Director
Kurtis David Harder
Production
Jackrabbit Media
Cast
Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Georgina Campbell, Lisa Delamar, Jonathan Whitesell, Veronica Long, Dylan Playfair, Osric Chau, Liam James Collins, Lewis Raymond Taylor, Nalani Wakita, Andrew Barber, Paulo Saraiva, Marie Josée, Isabelle Perrodeau, Vincent Serrano, Eugénie Alquezar, Lyudmila Nesterova, Lorenzo Butt, Gloria Rojas
Where to watch
AMC+, Philo, Shudder
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?