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Don't Follow Me (2025) poster

2025 · horror · mystery · supernatural

Don't Follow Me

Directed by Eduardo Lecuona, Ximena García Lecuona1h 23m2025

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.

Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.

ElsewhereIMDb5.1518
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
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DNA · twelve axes

How Don't Follow Me feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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What watching it is actually like.

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

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Skip it tonight — You 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)
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