Follower
2018 · 10m · Germany
Directed by Jonathan Behr
A babysitter's quiet evening turns sinister when a new Instagram follower starts stalking her in real life.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Instagram stalker thriller sounds like a Lifetime elevator pitch, and Behr almost lets it be exactly that—until he doesn't, which is the only thing keeping it from disappearing into the scroll.
Competent execution of contemporary anxiety, though the film sits comfortably within established horror-thriller grammar rather than interrogating or expanding it; a assured genre exercise without a particular signature.
The decision to let the babysitter's phone become the stalker's point-of-view—collapsing digital and physical threat through screen space—is the hinge that transforms a premise into something that actually *feels* like violation, not just narrative.