Taglines: What happened to #DropTheMike?
Followed Movie Storyline. When aspiring social media influencer ‘DropTheMike’ is offered a lucrative sponsorship to grow his channel, he gathers a video crew made up of friends for a visit to one of the most haunted hotels in America, where he’ll give his online audience a horrific weekend of thrill-seeking the likes of which they have never seen before. What begins as a fun investigation into the hotel’s deadly past, including the infamous Elevator Ritual, quickly descends into a personal hell of true evil, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?
Followed is a 2018 American supernatural horror film written by Todd Klick and directed by Antoine Le, in his feature directorial debut. The film is told almost entirely through a single screencast, in which a sequence of vlogs being watched on a website chronicle the events of the plot.
It stars Matthew Solomon as DropTheMike, a controversial vlogger and social media celebrity, who is haunted by strange forces when he takes his weekly vlog to a reputedly cursed hotel in order to gain more subscribers. It stars John Savage, Sam Valentine, Tim Drier, Caitlin Grace and Kelsey Griswold, and is produced by Viscape Arts in association with Branded Pictures Entertainment.
Followed was filmed in 12 days on a 144-page script. Two separate hotel locations were used to depict the Hotel Lennox: the Hayward Manor Apartments in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Hotel Normandie in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Locations also included Skid Row where homelessness was used as both a literal and thematic backdrop for the story.
The film had its world premiere at Burbank International Film Festival on September 7, 2018, where it won the award for Best Horror / Thriller Feature Film. It was released in select theaters and drive-ins in the United States on June 19, 2020 and releases on VOD September 1.
Followed (2020)
Directed by: Antoine Le
Starring: Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Sam Valentine, Tim Drier, Caitlin Grace, Kelsey Griswold, Christopher Ross Martin, Sarah Chang, Karan Sagoo, Terumi Shimazu, Sonia Pizarro
Screenplay by: Todd Klick
Production Design by: Carmi Gallo
Cinematography by: Nelson Pun
Film Editing by: Matthew Ryan Brewbaker
Costume Design by: Christina Mastrangelo
Art Direction by: Gladys Rodriguez
Music by: Jason Soudah
MPAA Rating: R for language, violent / disturbing images, and brief drug material.
Distributed by: Global View Entertainment
Release Date: June 19, 2020 (United States)
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