Don't Follow Me (2025) poster
2025 · horror · mystery · supernatural

Don't Follow Me

Directed by Eduardo Lecuona, Ximena García Lecuona1h 23m2025
ElsewhereIMDb5.1518
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Obsessed with going viral with her videos of ghosts and paranormal events, aspiring influencer Carla moves into a famous haunted building. There, she begins faking ghostly apparitions to gain more followers, unaware that a real evil entity resides in her apartment and will torment her until no one, not even she, can distinguish what's real and what isn't.

Our read · Don't Follow Me (2025) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · mystery · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a creepy found-footage horror about an influencer facing real evil in a haunted place.

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Skip it tonightYou want comfort viewing or dislike jump scares and possession stories.

If Don't Follow Me is your film
Host (2020)
effective low-budget found footage scares
(shorter Zoom format during pandemic)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
found footage haunting that escalates
(more domestic and slower build)
Creep (2014)
unsettling encounter with disturbing stranger
(mockumentary style and different tone)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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