Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-08 (Saturday)

Clickbait: Unfollowed (Tubi) - Written and directed by Katherine Barrell
and Melanie Scrofano!! (who also appear!).
   Six "influencers" - it's actually 7, as one influencer "team" is a
10-year-old boy and his predatory mother (Jessica Stanley) - are invited
to a mansion for a competition to improve their social media presence.
   But, as you might expect, this competition is deadly for the losers!
(Once place the film falls down is with special effects - the first
death is especially poorly EFX'ed...)
   Will anyone get out alive?! Are any of these influencers worth
saving?!! And who is doing all of this?!!!
   This was amusing in parts. But there are some plot holes - I never
really got/bought the villains' motivations for doing all of this. And
were their Squid Game-esque henchmen supposed to be real people, or robots?!
   Also, you never actually see Barrell's face in this movie, as she's
wearing a hideous mask (it's supposed to be cosmetic surgery... well,
sort of!).
   Bottom line: This was OK, maybe made slightly more enjoyable for
knowing that Barrell and Scrofano wrote and directed it.